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FlashCards por Ashley Tackett, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Ashley Tackett
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| Questão | Responda |
| Colonist | a person who settles in colony |
| settlement | a small community created by settlers in a new territory |
| Captain John Smith | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, was said to have been saved by Pocahontas. Elected president of the colony in 1608; created the “No Work, No Food Policy |
| Old World | Refers to a part of the world that was known to its citizens before it came into contact with the Americas. (Eastern Hemisphere) |
| New World | Refers to the Americas-North America, South America, Central America (Western Hemisphere) |
| Jamestown | The first successful English colony, located in present day Virginia. |
| Charter | A document issued by a government that grants people specific rights to a person or company. |
| House of Burgesses | 1619, Virginia created a representative government in which voters would elect people to make laws for them. |
| Cash Crop | a crop that is grown in large quantities in order to sell to make a profit |
| Tobacco | A cash crop that was grown by the English settlers which was sold to the Native Americans and people back in England in 1612 |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of Chief Powhatan, developed/maintained a relationship between the indians in Virginia and the Jamestown colonists. Married John Rolfe & saved the life of John Smith |
| Chief Powhatan | Indian chief/founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas |
| Hardship | A condition that is difficult to endure, something that is hard to bear or suffering. |
| Conflict | A serious disagreement or argument about something important. A conflict can be between two people or groups of people. |
| Compromise | An agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side meeting in the middle. |
| Cooperate | An agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side meeting in the middle. |
| John Rolfe | one of the 1st English settles of Jamestown who introduced tobacco to the colony & later married Pocahontas |
| King James I | King of England who granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London to settle in North America. |
| Virginia Company of London | A group who organized and financed the Jamestown settlement |
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