| A | B |
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| colony | a place that is ruled by another country |
| colonist | a person who lives in a colony |
| settlement | a small village or group of houses in a new colony or country |
| charter | a written statement that gives a group or an individual certain rights |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | a young Englishman who thought that England should begin a colony in America |
| Roanoke Island | now located in NC, it was the first English attempt at colonizing America |
| John White | leader of the group that made the 2nd attempt to colonize in 1587, also leader at Jamestown |
| Christopher Newport | captain in charge of the first Jamestown voyage |
| Jamestown | first permanent British settlement in America |
| Pocahontas | daughter of Powhatan |
| John Rolfe | in 1612 he brought seeds of tobacco grown on Caribbean islands to Virginia |
| cash crop | a crop that is grown to sell for money, rather than for use by the growers |
| green gold | the tobacco that helped Jamestown prosper |
