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| 129037410 | Captain John Smith | Original Jamestown settler. He organized colonists and helped them survive by listening to the Indians. Without him the colony would have most likely collapsed. Told the story of how pocahontas saved him. | |
| 129037411 | Powhatan | Chief of the Algonquian Confederacy and father to Pocahontas. At the time of the English settlement of Jamestown in 1607, he was a friend to John Smith and John Rolfe. When Smith was captured by Indians, The Cheif left Smith's fate in the hands of his warriors. His daughter saved John Smith, and the Jamestown colony. Pocahontas and John Rolfe were wed, and there was a time of peace between the Indians and English until his death. | |
| 129037412 | Algonquian Indians | Midwestern states of Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as all of New England, eastern New York, New Jersey, the Chesapeake Bay area and in addition to most of Canada | |
| 129037413 | Pocahontas | a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617) | |
| 129037414 | John Rolfe | He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony. | |
| 129037415 | Virginia Company | Joint stock company received charter from King James I; Promises of Gold-passage through Americas to Indies/ Guaranteed English would have same rights in New world as in England. | |
| 129037416 | Jamestown | first permanent English settlement, located near the Chesapeake Bay | |
| 129037417 | Opechancanough | chief of native confederacy after brother Powhatan died, led efforts to defend Indian lands from European, 1644 led unsuccessful uprising -last time Powhatans challenged eastern regions of colony. | |
| 129037418 | House of Burgesses | the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts. | |
| 129037419 | Tobacco | staple of the early Virginia economy, its exclusive planting made it necessary to import food | |
| 129037420 | headright | system set up by the London Company that gave hundreds acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to Virginia | |
| 129037421 | indentured servants | mainstay of the labor needs in many colonies, especially in the Chesapeake regions in the seventeenth century; they were "rented slaves" who served four to seven years and then were freed to make their way in the world. Most of the servants were from ranks of the poor, political dissenters, Blacks, and criminals in England. | |
| 129037422 | Lord Baltimore | Founded the colony of Maryland and offered religious freedom to all Christian colonists. He did so because he knew that members of his own religion (Catholicism) would be a minority in the colony. | |
| 129037423 | yeoman | man or farmer owning small estate; middle-class farmer | |
| 129037424 | Navigational Acts | designed to make sure England recieved money from the colonists' trade: 1. all shipping had to be done on English ships or ships made in English colonies, 2. tobacco, sugar, wood, etc. can only be sold to England, 3. European imports have to pass through English ports, 4. there's a tax on any goods not shipped to England | |
| 129037425 | Governor William Berkeley | He was a British colonial governor of Virginia from 1642-52. He showed that he had favorites in his second term which led to the Bacon's rebellion in 1676 ,which he ruthlessly surpressed. He had poor frontier defense. | |
| 129037426 | Mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | |
| 129037427 | Bacon's Rebellion | an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year. The uprising was a protest against the governor of Virginia, William Berkeley. | |
| 129037428 | Nathaniel Bacon | a farmer in the backcountry, his resentment of Berkeley and the unbalanced power of the Virginia government, lead to a rebellion, by him and other backcountry farmers. When Berkeley refused to let the man and other farmers fight nearby Indians, he went into Jamestown, with his own militia, burned most of the city, and drove Berkeley out of town. | |
| 129037429 | grandees | elite planters | |
| 129037430 | Pueblo Indians | They were located in the Rio Grande Valley and constructed intricate systems to water their cornfields. They were dwelling in villages of multistoried terraced buildings when Spanish explorers made contact with them in the sixteenth century. | |
| 129037431 | Barbados | this Caribbean island developed close commercial ties with Southern Carolina, where many of its natives immigrated to, bringing along their ideas of a slave- based plantation society.Large percent of Puritans imigrated here. |
