| A | B |
|---|
| Geography | study of earth, land, water, plants, animals, and people |
| landform | shape of the earth's surface |
| Piedmont | land at the foot of the mountains |
| John Rolfe | introduced the sweeter type of tobacco |
| Appalachiain Mountain Chain | Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains |
| Fall Line | area where the Piedmont and Tidewater Regions meet |
| Powhatan Confederacy | Group of Indians in the Tidewater Region |
| House of Burgesses | Representatives elected by the colonists |
| Jamestown | First permanent English colony in North America |
| laziness, lack of skills, disease | problems the early colonists in Virginia had |
| Charter | written permission giving a person or group certain rights |
| Virginia Company of London | They financed, or paid for, the colony at Jamestown. |
| cash crop | crop grown to be sold |
| tobacco | made Jamestown a success |
| John Smith | If you don't work, you don't eat! |
| Pocahontas | marriage to John Rolfe brought peace to the colony |
| Indians and Colonists fight | Native Americans fear that the colonists will take all their land |
| Colonists begin moving west | land is being taken by many colonists |
| Williamsburg | second capitol of Virginia |
| College of William and Mary | built in Williamsburg |
