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English Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Armada | -a fleet of warship |
| Compact | -an agreement |
| Interpreter | -a person who translate from one language to another |
| Mayflower Compact | -an agreement by those on the Mayflower to make and obey laws for their colony. This was the first example of self-rule by American colonists |
| Pilgrim | -a person who makes a journey for a religious reason |
| Profit | -in a business, money left over after everything has been paid for |
| Indentured Servant | -a person who agrees to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time in return for travel expenses |
| Separatist | -a person who wants to become or remain separate from a government or group |
| Elizabeth I | -Queen of England during the middle to late 1500s |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | -English explorer who used his own money to set up England's first colony in North America, on Roanoke Island near North Carolina |
| John White | -English painter and cartographer who led the second group that settled on Roanoke Island |
| Virginia Dare | -first child born of English parents in America. She vanished with other settlers of the Lost Colony |
| John Smith | -English explorer who, as the Jamestown settlement, save its people from starvation |
| Chief Powhatan | -Chief of federation of Indian tribes that lived in the Virginia Territory. Pocahontas was his daughter |
| Pocahontas | -1595-1617 Indian Chief Powhatan's daughter |
| John Rolfe | -An English business man who began planting tobacco in Jamestown and later married Pocahontas |
| James I | -1566-1625 King of England in the early 1600s. The James River and Jamestown were named after him |
| William Bradford | -1590-1657 Governor of Plymouth Colony |
| Massasoit | -Chief of Wamponogs, who were in peace with the Pilgrims |
| Tisquantum | -1585-1622 Native American who spoke English and who helped the Plymouth Colony |