| A | B |
|---|
| Virginia | The first permanent English colony. |
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement. |
| Colony | Large area of land settled for empire. |
| Settlement | Specific location like a fort or town. |
| Joint- Stock Charter | Type of charter of Virginia Company in which profits, costs and risks are shared. |
| Charter | Document in which king gives permission to set up or control a colony. |
| John Smith | Leader of early Jamestown |
| 1607 | Date Jamestown was founded. |
| 3 problems at Jamestown | Poor location, Indian relations, wrong type of settler |
| Gentlemen-adventurers | Soldiers of fortune recruited by the Virginia Company to settle Jamestown. |
| House of Burgesses | Virginia colonial assembly elected by landowners. First example of representative government. |
| Tobacco | New world crop which made Jamestown suddenly profitable |
| Indentured servants | Workers on contract for a specified time period. |
| 1619 | The year African workers first arrived in Jamestown. |
| Seasoning | The time in which new settlers adjusted to hardships, disease, and environment - or died. |
