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| joint-stock company | A business in which inverstors pool their money in order to turn a profit. (p70) |
| charter | A written contract issued by a government giving the holder the right to establish a company. |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English colony in North America, established in 1607. Named after King James. (p71) |
| John Smith | A soldier and adventurer, took control of Jamestown after it almost failed. To make sure the colonists worked, Smith announced, “He that will not work shall not eat.” Smith’s methods worked. (p71) |
| indentured servant | A man or woman who sold their labor in exchange for passage to America. (p72) |
| House of Burgesses | The first representative assembly in America established in 1619. (p72) |
| slavery | The practice of holding a person in bondage for labor. (p60) |
| Pocahontas | Chief Powhatan’s daughter. Married to John Rolfe in 1614. (p71) |
| 1607 | Founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. (p71) |
| Virginia Company of London | Joint-stock company that obtained the rights to Jamestown and sent colonists out to settle there in 1607. (p71) |
| Roanoke colony | A settlement that failed in America. All the colonists disappeared and left a mystery as to what happened to them. (p69-70) |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Soldier, statesman, and adventurer who was given permission to establish Roanoke Island in America. (p70) |
| John Rolfe | A Jamestown colonist who developed high grade tabacco. This helped the Virginia colony become self sufficant. (p72) |
| Bacon's Rebellion | A revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown by Nathaniel Bacon and a group of landless frontier settleers that resulted in the burning of Jamestown in 1676. (p73) |
