| A | B |
| bay | body of water partly surrounded by land |
| Chesapeake Bay | A bay, partly enclosed by Maryland and Virginia |
| Jamestown | First permanent English colony established in North America |
| Pocahontas | Helped the Jamestown colony survive |
| Powhatan | leader of the Powhatan people |
| John Smith | leader of the Jamestown colony |
| "starving time" | winter of 1609 |
| John Rolfe | married Pocahontas |
| tobacco | crop grown in Jamestown that made colony richer |
| Virginia | where Jamestown is today |
| coastal plain | flat land along the coast |
| James I | King of England, Jamestown is named for him |
| colony | place that is ruled by another country |
| colonist | someone who lives in a colony |
| searching for gold | one reason the English came to the new land |
| departed | means died or left |
| famine | means starving , hunger |
| Pocahontas and John Rolfe | marriage brought peace to Jamestown |