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 |