Early Settlement Vocabulary

Early Settlement Vocabulary Manteo – Native American who sailed back

to England with John White, later named Lord of Roanoke by the Queen of England.

Wanchese – Native American who sailed back to England with John White and later turned on the Roanoke colonists

Lost Colony – the colony at Roanoke that vanished without a trace.

Early Settlement Vocabulary John White – Governor of the second

Roanoke colony; grandfather of Virginia Dare

Spanish Armada – the Spanish fleet that attacked England in the 1580s

Virginia Dare – first English child born in America

Sir Francis Drake – English sea captain that rescued the settlers from the first Roanoke colony

Early Settlement Vocabulary Charter – a written contract, issued by a

government or other authority, giving the holder the right to establish a colony, corporation or other organization

John Smith – English explorer that led the Jamestown colony for a period of time

Indentured servant – an individual that works for a specified period of time without wages in exchange for transportation to the American colonies.

Early American Settlement John Rolfe – established tobacco as a

means of making money for the Jamestown colony and married Pocahontas

House of Burgesses – the legislature in Virginia founded in 1619 that served as an early step in establishing a representative government in America

Early Settlement Vocabulary

Virginia Company of London – joint-stock company that funded the Jamestown colony.

Starving time – a period of time during which most of the colonists at Jamestown starved.