History Flashcards
Roanoke
Lost English colony
Virgina Dare
First English child born in America
Virgina company of London
received a charter from King James to colonize in the US
charter
legal document giving rights to a person or company
Joint stock company
a private trading company that sold shares to investors
Capital
money for investment
Jamestown
first permanent englsish colony in North America
Captain John Smith
saved Jamestown
“he that didn’t work, didn’t eat”
Pocahontas
Indian girl who saved John Smiths life
Burgesses
Representative
House of Burgess
1st representative government in the english colonies
Representative Government
a gov’t where voters elect people to make laws for them
Stockade
a high fence of wooden posts
Magna Carta
Document English nobles forced king John to sign for their rights
Separatists
people who wanted to set up their own church separate from the church of England
Pilgrim
Separatists and strangers who left England on the Mayflower
Mayflower
The ship of the pilgrims
Mayflower COmpact
agreement made by the pilgrims on how they would govern their colony
Plymouth
The pilgrims settlement in Massachusetts
William Bradford
governor of plymouth
Samoset
Pemaquid Indian who helped the pilgrims plant corn and trap animals for fur
Squanto
Wampanoag Indian who helped the pilgrim catch eels
Thanksgiving
feast held by the pilgrims with the indians to give thanks for the harvest
What product helped Jamestown prosper
Tobacco
How did the indians help the pilgrims survive
How to plant corn and catch eels
3 problems the Jamestown colonists faced
Famine,Disease,Conflict
