IB History of Americas, AP US History, IBHOA, APUSH, bolded words
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| 1804853189 | Protestant Reformation | Reformers sought to eliminate selling of indulgences and encouraged the translation of the Bible into Latin; the movement was launched by Martin Luther in Germany; reform was launched by Henry VIII in England | 0 | |
| 1804853190 | Roanoke Island | Sir Walter Raleigh's failed colonial settlement off the coast of N. Carolina | 1 | |
| 1804853191 | Spanish Armada | Spanish fleet defeated in the English Channel in 1588. The defeat marked the end for the Spanish Empire | 2 | |
| 1804853192 | Primogeniture | laws stated that only the eldest son gets land | 3 | |
| 1804853193 | Joint-Stock Company | short-term partnership between investors to fund a commercial enterprise; funded early colonial ventures | 4 | |
| 1804853194 | Virginia Company | English joint-stock co. that received a charter from James I that allowed the founding of the Virginia colony | 5 | |
| 1804853195 | Charter | a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power | 6 | |
| 1804853196 | Jamestown | First successful colony settled in the "New World". In Virginia | 7 | |
| 1804853197 | First Anglo-Powhatan War | "Irish tactics," used by Lord De La Warr; peace settlement sealed by marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe | 8 | |
| 1804853198 | Second Anglo-Powhatan War | In the treaty, Englishmen refused to be associated with Natives: banished from their ancestral land of the Chesapeake, separated whites and Indians; origins of reservation system | 9 | |
| 1804853199 | House of Burgesses | An assembly summoned by the settlers with permission from The Virginia Company. Baby steps towards Democracy though it later failed | 10 | |
| 1804853200 | Act of Toleration | Passed by the local representative assembaly in 1649 allowing toleration of religion. "Religious Freedom" | 11 | |
| 1804853201 | Barbados Slave Code | To control the slave population, authorities devised "codes;" included the right to inflict punishments for even a slight infraction | 12 | |
| 1804853202 | Tuscarora War | War in which the colonists crushed the natives and sold many into slavery | 13 | |
| 1804853203 | Yamasee Indians | Defeated by the S. Carolinians in war of 1715-1716. Devastated the last of the coastal Indian tribes in the south | 14 | |
| 1804853204 | Buffer | In politics, a territory between two antagonistic powers, intended to minimize possibility of conflict. British buffer was Georgia for French and Spanish | 15 |
