| A | B |
| tobacco | the main crop and source of income for the Jamestown Colony |
| brackish | an unusable water source that is a mixture of fresh and salt water |
| Pocahontas | a Native American princess that helped the Jamestown settlers |
| Jamestown | British Colony started in Virginia in 1607 |
| oligarchy | a type of government in which the power rests with a small group of men |
| Roanoke | an early English colony that mysteriously disappeared |
| John Smith | one of the first leaders of the Jamestown Colony |
| Junta | a form of government that relies on strict military rules and consequences, one man has all the authority |
| representative democracy | a type of government where rule of law is established and every person becomes equally accountable in court |
| house of burgesses | a legislature of property-owning men that choose representatives to make laws for them at assembly meetings |
| John White | one of the leaders of Roanoke Colony |
| Virginia Dare | first person to be born in Roanoke Colony |
| Columbian Exchange | the transfer of plants, animals, goods, ideas, and disease between the "Old World" and the "New World"; named for Christopher Columbus |