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Roanoke

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Lost English colony

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Virgina Dare

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First English child born in America

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Virgina company of London

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received a charter from King James to colonize in the US

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charter

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legal document giving rights to a person or company

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Joint stock company

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a private trading company that sold shares to investors

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Capital

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money for investment

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Jamestown

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first permanent englsish colony in North America

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Captain John Smith

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saved Jamestown
“he that didn’t work, didn’t eat”

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Pocahontas

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Indian girl who saved John Smiths life

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Burgesses

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Representative

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House of Burgess

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1st representative government in the english colonies

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Representative Government

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a gov’t where voters elect people to make laws for them

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Stockade

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a high fence of wooden posts

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Magna Carta

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Document English nobles forced king John to sign for their rights

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Separatists

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people who wanted to set up their own church separate from the church of England

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Pilgrim

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Separatists and strangers who left England on the Mayflower

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Mayflower

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The ship of the pilgrims

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Mayflower COmpact

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agreement made by the pilgrims on how they would govern their colony

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Plymouth

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The pilgrims settlement in Massachusetts

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William Bradford

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governor of plymouth

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Samoset

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Pemaquid Indian who helped the pilgrims plant corn and trap animals for fur

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Squanto

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Wampanoag Indian who helped the pilgrim catch eels

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Thanksgiving

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feast held by the pilgrims with the indians to give thanks for the harvest

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What product helped Jamestown prosper

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Tobacco

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How did the indians help the pilgrims survive

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How to plant corn and catch eels

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3 problems the Jamestown colonists faced

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Famine,Disease,Conflict

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