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Social Studies
Term | Definition |
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armada | A fleet of warships. |
compact | An agreement. |
interpreter | A person who translates 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 self-rule by American Colonists. |
pilgrim | A person who makes a journey for a religious reason. |
profit | In 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 1 | Queen of England during the middle to late 1500. |
Sir Walter Raleigh | An English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. |
John White | An English artist and early pioneer of English efforts to settle North America. |
Virginia Dare | The first white Christian child born in the British Colonies in the New World. |
John Smith | An English soldier, explorer, and author. |
Powhatan | Chief of the federation of Indian tribes that lived in the Virginia territory. |
Pocahontas | Indian chief Powhatan's daughter. |
John Rolfe | One of the early English settlers of North America. |
James 1 | He was the King of England and the King of Ireland. |
William Bradford | An English Separatist leader who grew up in Yorkshire, and later moved to Leiden, Holland, and helped found the Plymouth Colony. |
Massasoit | He was the sachem, or leader, of the Wampanoag. |
Tisquantum | Also known as Squanto, he was a Patuxet man who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in what is now Massachusetts. He was integral to their very survival. |