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| Savior of Virginia, resourceful, young adventurer who saved Virginia from collapse. Kidnapped in December 1607 and saved by Pocahontas. |
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| Chief of the Indians who first inhabited Virginia |
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| Daughter of Powhatan and the peace-keeper between the Indians and the settlers |
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| Pocahontas's spouse, killed in an attack by the Indians on the settlers. |
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| As one of the founders of Georgia,he was interested in jail reforms,and saved "the Charity Colony" with his leadership and his fortune (solider-statesmen) |
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| one of the founders of the "League of the Iroquois" |
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| Roanoke Island (North Carolina) |
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| the island was colonized by Sir Walter Raleigh,he landed there 1585.but the colony mysteriously vanished, "swallowed up by the wilderness" |
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| Spanish fleet defeated in the English Channel in 1588. the defeat of the armada marked the beginning of the decline of the Spanish Empire. |
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| Legal principal that the oldest son inherits all family property or land. Landowner's youngest sons, force to seek their fortunes elsewhere, pioneered early exportation and settlement of the Americas. |
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| short term partnership between multiple investors to fund a commercial enterprise;such arrangements were used to fund England's early colonial ventures. |
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| Legal document granted by a government to some group of agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations. British colonial charters guaranteed inhabitants all the rights of Englishmen, which helped solidify colonists' ties to Britain during the early years of settlement. |
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| First permanent English settlement in North America founded by the Virginia Company. |
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| Series of clashes between the Powhatan Confederacy and English settlers in Virginia. English colonist torched and pillaged Indian villages, applying tactics used in England's campaigns againsts the Irish. |
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| (1649) Passed in Maryland, it guaranteed tolerance to all Christians but decreed the death penalty for those, like Jews and atheist, who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ.Ensured that Maryland would continue to attract a high proportion of Catholic migrants throughout to colonial period. |
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| First formal statue governing the treatment of slaves, which provided harsh punishment against offending slaves , but lacked penalties for the mistreatment of slaves by masters. Similar statutes were adopted by southern plantation societies on the North American mainland in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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| (late 1500's) Bound together five tribes-- the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas,the Cayugas and the Senecas--in the Mohawks Valley of what is now New York State. |
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