| A | B |
| settlements | small communities that are started in a new place. |
| Roanoke | The name of the island where the first English settlement was started in North America in 1587. |
| Jamestown | The name of the second English settlement, or new community, in North America that was started in 1607 in present-day Virginia. |
| Plymouth | A town started in 1620 by early English settlers, called Pilgrims. |
| colonists | People who settle in colonies. |
| tobacco | A plant whose leaves are dried and turned into material for smoking ir sniffing, or chewing. |
| The first group that went to Roanoke had to return home because | they ran short of supplies. |
| Captain John White couldn't return to Roanoke when he wanted to because | there was a war with Spain and his ship could not leave. |
| When John White finally made it to Roanoke he found | a ruined fort, a carving that read Croatoan, and no sign of settlers. |
| Jamestown faced problems due to the place it was built because | it was built on a marsh and had dirty water, mosquitoes, and bad land for farming. |
| Jamestown easily survived as a settlement because | N. Americans helped the settlers, John Smith was a strong leader, and the colony began raising tobacco |
| Virginia was considered more democratic than England because they had a group of representatives called the | House of Burgessess. |
| The Mayflower Compact was | a plan of government the Pilgrims drew up. |
| The first winter was hard for the Pilgrims because | they landed too late to plant crops. |
| Roanoke was known as the | Lost Colony. |
| Jamestown was the | first successful English settlement. |
| People of Plymouth left England seeking | Freedom of Religion. |
| In Jamestown during the starving period, settlers ate | dogs and horses. |
| Powhatan and Pocahontas were associated with the settlement of | Jamestown. |