| A | B |
|---|
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement |
| Charter | a document giving permission for someone to do something |
| Settler/colonist | persons that leave their country and settle new land for their home country |
| Virginia/London Company | a company of investors that sponsored settlers in the Virginia |
| Roanoke 1585 | The first English Colony |
| Burgess | a representatvie to the colonial Virginia government |
| Representative government | political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them. |
| Magna Carter/Great Charter | signed in 1215 a British document that stated monarchs have to obey laws and citizens have basic rights |
| Parliament | representative assembly of law makers |
| Walter Raleigh | sought permission from Queen Elizabeth to settle a colony in North America |
| John Smith | Captain that saved Jamestown from starving. |
| Powhatan | chief of Indians in Virginia area |
| House of Burgesses | an assembly where burgesses met |
| Pocahantas | daughter of chief Powhatan |
| John Rolfe | Pocahantas husband |
