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 |