| A | B |
|---|
| Anno Domini | In the year of our lord. |
| Primary Source | An eyewhitness or a document |
| Secondary Source | Second handed |
| John Cabot | He gave England a claim to part of America |
| Lost Colony | The first English attempt to colonize what today is America |
| Virginia Dare | The first English child born in America |
| Crotoan | Was the only clue to the lost island |
| Charter | a license |
| Virginia | Named for Sir Walter Raliegh in honor of his queen |
| jamestown | The first sucessful English colony |
| Captain John Smith | Helped save the colony by making them work together |
| Pocahontas | Her marriage brought peace to Jamestown |
| John Rolfe | The man who marrys pocahontas, he introduced tobacco as a cash crop in Virginia |
| Tobacco | The first cash crop in Virginia |
| Plantation | a large farm worked by slaves |
| Cash Crop | a crop grown for money |
| Virginia House of Burgessess | First local law - making body in America |
| Pilgrims | Had second sucessful English colony - Plymouth. They were seperatists |
| Squanto | An Indian, helped them to grow crops |
| Myles Standish | Captain of the pilgrims |
| "Courtship of Myles Standish" | A famous poem written by Longfellow |
| Thanksgiving | An America holiday started to give thanks to God |
| subsistence farming | When you just grow enough crops to survive |
| Massachusetts ( Bay Colony ) | A colony established by the Puritans |
| Puritans | They wanted to purify the church of England, when they couldn't they came to America |
| Theocracy | Where the church rules the government |
| Blue Laws | Regulated what you could and could not do on Sabbath ( Sunday ) |
| Puritan Work Ethic | Belief in the value of hard work |
| Harvard | The first college in America |
| Roger Williams / Anne Hutchinson | obtained a charter and established Rhode Island |
| Pennsylvania | Named for Admirral Penn. Means " Penn's Woods " |
| William Penn | Founder of Pennsylvania for the Quakers |
| Quakers | Society of friends |
| New York ( Dutch New Netherlands ) | Captured by the English from the Dutch was named of the Duke of York |
| Wall Street | Built by the Dutch to protect themselves, was torn down and replaced by a street named Wall Street, which today is the Financial Center of U.S.A. |
| Maryland | Named for Queen Mary |
| Lord Baltimore | Founder of Maryland |
| Carolina | Named in honor of King Charles |
| Eight Lords Proprietors | The original English owners of the Carolinas |
| Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper | Got first settlement established. Now named the Ashley and Cooper rivers |
| Eliza Lucas Pinckney | Discovered Indigo |
| Georgia | Last English colony established, named for King George |
| James Ogleothorpe | Founded Georgia for deaders, people who owe money |
| Washington Irving | Wrote the " Legend of Sleepy Hollow " |
| " Melting Pot " | Theory that people from different culture named to America and formed a new culture |
