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| charter | a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
| joint stock company | a private trading company that sold shares to investors |
| capital | money for investments |
| representative government | one in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
| burgesses | ones elected to the first representative government |
| House of Burgesses | This was the first representative government in the colonies |
| Magna Carta | English law dated 1215 which gave English nobles a voice in the taxation process |
| royal colony | colony which is directly under the control of the king |
| Roanoke | Colony off the coast of NC in which all the colonists disappeared |
| Jamestown | First sucessful English colony in North America/founded in 1607 |
| tobacco | cash crop which enabled Jamestown to prosper |
| First Africans | 20 slaves arrived via Dutch ships in 1619 to the colony in Virginia. This began the slave trade in North America. |
| John Smith | He helped to focus settlers in Jamestown by his "work or do not eat" program |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Personal friend of Queen Elizabeth who initiated the preparations for the colony at Roanoke. |
| Croatoan | Words carved on a tree by the missing colonists of Roanoke |
| Virginia Dare | First English child born in North America |
| John Rolfe | Husband of Pocahantas aka Rebecca Rolfe |
| Women | Another factor which helped save the colony of Jamestown |
| John White | Artist sent to Roanoke who later sailed back to England for supplies only to return and never find the colonists. |
