ROANOKE AND JAMESTOWN TERMS

joint stock company

a company whose stock is owned by many investors

Northwest Passage

a waterway through North America; does not exist

indentured servant

one who agreed to work without pay for 4-7 years in exchange for passage to America

venison

deer meat

cannibalism

the practice of eating the flesh of one's own species.

Protestant

Christians who belong to non-Catholic churches and origins include popularity in England

Catholic

traditional Christian whose origins include popularity in France & Spain

charter

a written grant from the king, usually for settlement on certain land

brackish

part salty and part fresh water

investor

a person who gives money to a company with the hope of making money later

drought

a long period without rain

stock

a share of ownership in a company

arsenic

poison

monopoly

complete control of a product or service by one person or group

prophecy

a prediction of the future

legacy

one's lasting reptutation

tobacco

the crop that saved Jamestown but created a need for African slaves

armada

a fleet of warships

Queen Elizabeth I

the monarch who allowed the expedition to Roanoke

James I

the monarch who allowed the expedition to Jamestown

John White

the governor of the second Roanoke expedition

John Smith

the leader of Jamestown who befriended the natives and saved the colony

John Rolfe

tobacco farmer who married Pocahontas

Sir Walter Raleigh

friend of Queen Elizabeth I who funded the Roanoke expeditions

Chief Powhatan

leader of the Powhatan natives & father of Pocahontas

Powhatans

natives who befriended and then waged war on the Jamestown settlers

Croatoans

natives who befriended Roanoke settlers

Virginia Dare

first English child born in North America

Chesapeake Bay

bay in MD through which the Jamestown settlers sailed

James River

river off of the Chesapeake Bay on which Jamestown lies

Washington, DC

capital city on the Potomac River

Jamestown

name of the second English settlement in North America

Roanoke

island where the first English settlement in North America began

Potomac River

river off of the Chesapeake Bay on which Washington, DC is located

Starving Time

terrible winter of 1609-1610 during which many settlers of Jamestown died

1619

year in which African slaves first arrived on the North American continent

1607

year in which Jamestown was founded

winter of 1609-1610

Starving Time

House of Burgesses

first elected representative government in North America

Middle Passage

voyage made aboard a slave ship from Africa to the New World or Europe

triangular fort

shape of the fort built at Jamestown

Pocahontas

daughter of Chief Powhatan who married tobacco farmer John Rolfe

Olaudah Equiano

boy kidnapped from Africa & taken to Virginia as enslaved

Croatoan Island

possible relocation site of the settlers at Roanoke who disappeared

burgess

representative

Who said, "Tobacco is a vile and stinking habit?"

King James I

Who said, "He who does not work, neither shall he eat?"

John Smith

Who said, "I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England?"

Queen Elizabeth I