Pre-Colonial Vocab
Subject:
US History [1]
Tags:
British Empire [2]
Americas [3]
Jamestown, Virginia [10]
Puritan [12]
Plymouth Colony [13]
religion [14]
behavior [15]
Human development [16]
Love [18]
Psychoanalysis [19]
Human behavior [20]
Personal life [21]
Attachment theory [22]
Evolutionary biology [23]
Technology [24]
Alisa Chen Hamza Noor Christina Xu Jenny Zhi Vocab Unit One People 1. John Rolfe: John Rolfe was a farmer in Jamestown who introduced tobacco to the settlers, a plant he had saw the local Indians growing. He later married Pocahontas and died during an native attack. 2. Pocahontas: daughter of Powhatan, the chief of the of Powhatan Indians. Married John Rolfe and converted to Christianity after getting captured by the settlers. 3. John Smith: famous traveler and organized leader who lead the colonists in Jamestown away from death and disaster. He organized Jamestown into a successful colony. 4. John Cabot: The first person representing England to sail to the New World, who at the time was looking for a passage to the Orient.