| A | B |
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| Christopher Newport | Captain of the ships that sailed to Virginia in 1606 |
| John Smith | Helped build Jamestown, made the rule, "If you don't work, you don't eat." |
| John Rolfe | Introduced tobacco to colonists, married Pocohantas. |
| Pocohantas | Daughter of the Powhatan chief, befriended John Smith. |
| Powhatan | Chief of Native Americans living in the Tidewater Region. |
| Nathaniel Bacon | Organized landowners against Native Americans then captured Jamestown. |
| Governor Berkeley | Refused to send troops to defend frontier lands, fled from Bacon's Rebellion. |
| Walter Raleigh | Urged Queen Elizabeth to colonize North America. Tried to establish a colony at Roanoke Island. |
| Virginia Dare | First English child born in North America. |
| John White | Found mysterious message at Roanoke Island telling of the "Lost Colony." |
| Thomas Dale | Governor of Jamestown, allowed colonists to become landowners. |
| Opechancanough | Native American who led the Good Friday massacre in 1622. |
| Alexander Spotswood | Led an expedition west to claim land for England. |
| Robert Dinwiddie | Told French to go home! |
| George Washington | Surveyor, plantation owner, fought in French and Indian War, named Commander of Continental Army. |
| Edward Braddock | Sent to drive the French from North America, died in "Battle of the Wilderness" |
| George Wythe | Taught law at William and Mary, signed the Declaration of Independence. |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" also opposed the Constitution because it did not have a Bill of Rights. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Architect, governor, author of Declaration of Independence |
| George Mason | Plantation owner, author The Virginia Declaration of Rights. |
