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Roanoke |
The first English colony in the Americas. However, after a year they had run out of food and were quarreling with neighboring Native American tribes and when an English Ship arrived they sailed home. Later, they sent John White an original colonist back to Roanoke with a new group of settlers. When supplies ran low he went back to England but at the time they were at war with Spain and did not come back until three years later. When he arrived, he found the colonists left and someone carved the word CROATOAN the name of a nearby island. No other trace of the colonists remained and to this day it remains a mystery.
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Charter |
a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company. |
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Jamestown |
20 years after the failure of Roanoke in the spring of 1607, 105 colonists arrived in Virginia.They sailed up Chesapeake Bay and started building homes along the James River. They named their colony Jamestown after their king. They soon began to realize that that where they chose to start was a very swampy area. The water was unhealthy and colonists started catching malaria from mosquitoes. The council of 13 men did little to help but argue among each other. Soon, the colony was near failure before a colonist named John Smith began to take charge. He set up stern rules and actually helped the colony and tensions with Native Americans helped when John Rolfe married Pocahontas daughter of the chief Powhatan. But, John Smith had to return to England and they started failing again before they finally began to prosper after they began to grow tobacco and soon they were importing 30,000 pounds of tobacco a year. |
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Burgesses |
representatives to the government. |
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Representative Government |
voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
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Magna Carta |
A charter that English Nobles forced King John to sign stating that the kind could not raise taxes without first consulting the Great Council of nobles and church leaders.` |
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House of Burgesses |
A house were burgesses meet and discuss. |
