| A | B |
| Jamestown | first successful English colony |
| Roanoke | first attempt at an Enlish colony but is was unsuccessful |
| colony | a settlement far from the country that rules it |
| indentured servant | aperson who agreed to work for someone in exchange for the cost of a voyage to North America |
| John Smith | a leader of the Jamestown colony that helped it become successful |
| John Rolfe | a leader of Jamestown colony that shoed tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia |
| House of Burgesses | a law making assembly in Virginia |
| Chief Powhatan | a leader of Powhatan people and father of Pocohantas |
| Pocohantas | daughter of Chief Powhatan who helped establish peace between her tribe and the Jamestown colonists |
| problems of Jamestown | gentlemen workers that only searched for gold, starvation, disease, cold winter, attacks from natives |