| A | B |
|---|
| Tobacco | leaf that is smoked or chewed |
| Tobacco | cash crop of Southern colonies |
| House of Burgesses | First law making body in Jamestown |
| House of Burgesses | Virginia Company had the power to veto their laws |
| Joint Stock Company | people share in the partial ownership of a company |
| Joint Stock Company | investors share in the losses and profits of a company |
| Investors | People that put money into a project to earn money |
| Indentured Servants | People who sell their labor for passage to the New World |
| Indentured Servants | after serving time of labor, they become free men |
| Mayflower Compact | set of rules to govern the Plymouth Colony written on the Mayflower |
| Mayflower Compact | Plymouth colony ruled themselves because they were outside of the Virginia Company's charter |
| Pilgrims | people who broke with the Church of England because they were being persecuted |
| Pilgrims | individuals who settled in Plymouth Colony |
| King Philip II | King of Spain |
| King Philip II | Sent an Armada to invade England |
| King Philip II | His Armada was defeated by the English Sea Dogs |
| King James | King of England |
| King James | he granted charters to the Virginia Company to establish colonies in the New World |
| King James | Jamestown was named in his honor |
| Pocahontas | daugher of Powhatan Indian Chief |
| Pocahontas | married John Rolfe |
| Pocahontas | her marriage led to peace between the Native Americans and the English Settlers |
| Pocahontas | died of smallpox in England |
| John Smith | helped to establish Jamestown |
| John Smith | traded with the indians for corn |
| John Smith | named the Chesapeake Bay |
| John Rolfe | helped to establish Jamestown |
| John Rolfe | learn how to grow tobacco and taught the settlers |
| John Rolfe | married Pocahontas causing peace between the Native Americans and the English settlers |
| Sea Dogs | english pirates who raided Spanish ships |
| Sea Dogs | stole gold from the Spanish to give to England |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | named the English territory "Virginia" after Queen Elizabeth |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | he was the first englishman to establish a colony in the Americas |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | settled in Roanoke in 1585, but the colony failed |
| John White | convinced Raleigh to try again at Roanoke in 1585 |
| John White | he gave each settler 500 acres of land to convince them to settle in the New World |
| John White | His Granddaughter was the first person born in the Americas named Virginia Dare |
| John White | he returned to England for supplies and was forced to fight against the Spanish Armada |
| John White | when he returned to Roanoke, the settlers had "disappeared" |
| Spanish Armada | A fleet of warships sent to invade England |
| Spanish Armada | sent out by King Philip II to invade England in 1588 |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Queen of England (virgin queen) |
| Queen Elizabeth I | encouraged colonization of Roanoke |
| Queen Elizabeth I | The Spanish Armada was defeated during her reign |
