| A | B |
|---|
| peninsula | a strip of land almost completely surrounded by water |
| Jamestown | first successful English colony |
| Virginia Dare | first English child born in the United States |
| Roanoke | the "Lost Colony" |
| stock | shares of ownership in a company |
| stockholder | person who has put money into a company |
| profits | money that is left over after costs have been paid |
| Captain John Smith | chosen leader of Jamestown in 1608, became friends with Powhatan Indians |
| tobacco | profit producing crop grown by the Jamestown settlement |
| House of Burgesses | Lawmakers for the Jamestown colony |
| pilgrim | a person who travels for religious reasons |
| Separatists | what the English called the Pilgrims because they broke away from the English church |
| Mayflower Compact | agreement signed by the Pilgrims where they agreed to make laws for the good of the colony |
| Squanto and Samoset | two Native Americans who befriended the Pilgrims |
| "common" or "green" | green land in the center of a town which is owned by all the people |
| dame school | small private schools taught by women in their homes |
| apprentice | student of a master craftworker |
| barter | trading of goods |
| indigo | a blue dye is made from this plant |
| plantation | large southern farms |
| slave | a person owned by another person |
| triangular trade | trade routes with the colonies which were made up of three paths |
| indentured servant | a person who sold his/her services for a specified period of time in exchange for passage to America |
| Middle Passage | the trip from Africa to the West Indies on a slave ship |
| town meeting | where property owners in New England towns discussed and voted on town business |
