| A | B |
|---|
| Richard Hakluyt | English geographer who urged England to start a colony |
| Protestant | Faith that England wanted to spread to the Americas |
| Roanoke | A failed colony sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Person Virginia was named after |
| Native Americans | Early colonists relied on these people for food |
| Sagadahoc | A failed colony located in present day Maine |
| joint-stock company | group of investors who put money into a colony |
| shares of stock | pieces of ownership of a joint-stock company |
| charter | written contract that gives the holder the right to establish a colony |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in Americas |
| John Smith | takes control of Jamestown |
| Powhatan | Natives that came into conflict with Jamestown colonists |
| Lord De La Warr | governor of Jamestown who ends the "starving time" |
| John Rolfe | develops a high grade tobacco |
| House of Burgesses | first representative assembly |
| Indentured Servants | people who sold their labor to get to the Americas |
| Pocahontas | daughter of the Powhatan chief |
| Nathaniel Bacon | led a rebellion against Governor Berkeley |
