| A | B |
|---|
| pilgrims (anyone) | people who go on a religious journey |
| The Pilgrims (specific) | A group of people who left England seeking religious freedom |
| malaria | deadly disease carried by mosquitoes;killed many people of Jamestown |
| tobacco | a plant whose leaves were dried so that it can be smoked, chewed, or sniffed;became big cash crop for Jamestown |
| Separatists | The Pigrims from England who wanted to separate from the Church of England |
| Mayflower | the ship which carried the Pilgrims to America |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement that the Pilgrims wrote before landing that described the plan of government they would live by in Plymouth. |
| Plymouth, Massachusetts | place where the Pilgrims settled in 1620 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | an Enlish nobleman who sent explorers to Roanoke Island to set up an English colony |
| Roanoke | English settlement whose people seemed to have vanished;Raleigh's "lost colony" |
| Jamestown,Virginia | colony settled in 1607 by English |
| John Smith | man who Powhatan was going to have killed;perhaps was saved by Pocahontas; he saved the colony by making everyone work (or they couldn't eat) |
| Chief Powhatan | Pocahontas's father; Indian chief |
| Pocahontas | Indian girl; Powhatan's daughter; "saved" John Smith from being killed |
| John Rolfe | created a special blend of tobacco which became popular in England; married Pocahontas |
| burgesses | elected representatives of the Virginia colony |
| House of Burgesses | group who governed (made laws for) the Virginia colony |
| Squanto | an English speaking Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn, catch fish,etc. |
| Massasoit | Indian chief of Squanto's tribe; signed peace treaty with the Pilgrims |
| William Bradford | long time governor of Plymouth colony |
| John White | governor of Roanoke;left to get supplies in England; when he returned, all the colonists and their homes were gone |
| Virginia Dare | the first English child born in the New World;John White's granddaughter |
