| A | B |
|---|
| charter | legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
| representative government | government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
| Magna Carta | document that guaranteed rights to English nobles (1215) |
| Parliament | representative assembly in England |
| Mayflower Compact | agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony, signed by Pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | raised money to send 7 ships and about 100 men to new world (Roanoke -N. Carolina) |
| John Smith | soldier/explorer helped save Jamestown-set rules & traded for food |
| Powhatan | powerful chief close to Jamestown - agreed to trade |
| Pocahontas | daughter of Powhatan |
| House of Burgesses | representative assembly in colonial Virginia |
| Pilgrims | in the 1600's English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas |
| Squanto | Wampanoag gave seeds of native plants & showed them how to plant them |
