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| life expectancy | the number of years a person could expect to live |
| indentured servant | a person who agrees to provide five to seven years of unpaid labor in return for free passage across the ocean, food, clothing and shelter |
| plantation | a large farm where one crop is grown. A plantation includes the home of the owner and residences for workers |
| House of Burgesses | a law-making body in Virginia |
| representative | an elected member of a law-making body in a government, acting for the people in a certain geographical area |
| council | a group of people called together to give advice (to a leader) |
| rebel | a person who uses force to oppose a government or another authority |
| slavery | an inhuman system in which people are owned as property. |
| export | a product grown or manufactured in one country and sold to another |
| cash crop | a product grown for sale and not for the farmer's own use |
| Jamestown | the first permanent European settlement in the North America |
| The Virginia Company | a group of businessmen who organized the Jamestown settlemtent |
| John Smith | the strict governor of the Jamestown settlement who helped it to survive in early times |
| Powhattan | the Chief of a tribe of Indians frequently encountered by the Jamestown settlers |
| John Rolfe | a Jamestown colonis who developed a hybrid form of tobacco which became very profitable for the colonists |
| Pocahontas | the daughter of Powhattan. She is sometimes credited with saving the life of John Smith. She married another important colonist. |
| the starving time | a period of time following the departure of john Smith from Jamestown. People ate dogs, rats and mice. Many people died. |
| tobacco | an importan cas crop for southern colonists |
| William Berkley | A Virginia governor who had a reputation as a man who made a large profit trading with the Indians. He was not well-liked by many of the planters |
| Nathaniel Bacon | He led a rebellion against the government of Virginia |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Resulted in the burning of Jamestown, it came about because planters were dissatisfied with the government's high taxes and failure to provide protection from raiding Indians. |
| 1606 | the year that Jamewstown was established |
| 1619 | the year the first House of Burgesses was established in Virginia and the year the first African American servants were brought to Jamestown |
| Anthony Johnson | An African who gained his freedom and aquired wealth and land, only to have a jury in Virginia decide that because he was black, his land could be taken away |
| middle passage | the voyage of slaves from Africa to America in which many suffered and died |
