| A | B |
|---|
| Nomads | early hunters who had no settled home,and followed herds of animals |
| Glaciers | huge mountains of ice |
| Evidence | Proof |
| Theory | An unproven explanation of how something happened |
| Pocahontas | the Indian hwi saved the life of a Jamestown leader according to legend |
| Squanto | Indian who acted as an interpreter for the pilgrims |
| culture | a way of life that is unique to a group of people |
| artifacts | objects left behind by early people that are often studied |
| Late arrival theory | claims that the first people came to North America 12,000 years ago |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement that 41 men aboard the Mayflower made and signed to make laws for the good of the colony |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian explorer after whom our country is named |
| Croatoan | Indian tribe believed to have adopted the colonists of Roanoke Island |
| Captain John Smith | established a policy of no work, no food that may have saved his colony |
| religious freedom | the main reason why the pilgrims came to the new world |
| migration | movement when early people did this it was mainly a result of the environment |
| archaeologist | someone who atudies artifacts to learn about ancieant peoples |
| Elizabeth 1 | Queen of England, who encouraged the settlement of colonists on the "New World" |
| Beringia | a land bridge that once connected Asia and North America |
| Chritopher Colombus | Spanish explorer credited with discovering the "new world" came to the new morld looking for gold |
| Roanoke | the place that John White could not return to because of England's war with Spain vanished 3 years time |
| compact | an agreement |
| John Smith | Leader of successful Jamestown colony |
| Croatoan | Indian tribe believed to have "adopted" the colonies of Roanoke Island |
| John White | Leader of the Roanoke Island colony |
| pilgrim | someone who takes a journey for a religious reason |
| interpreter | a person who can help people who speak different languages communicate |
| armada | a fleet of war ships |
| profit | money tha is left over after expenses have been paid |
