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An official document giving a person permission to do something, such as settle in an area.
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Charter
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Queen of England during the founding of the Roanoke colony and the defeat of the Spanish.
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Queen Elizabeth I
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English explorer historian and soldier who started two unsuccessful colonies at Roanoke Island.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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1500's leader of the English colony of Roanoke in 1587.
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John White
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King of Spain during the English defeat of Spain in 1588
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King Phillip II
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An island off the coast of North Carolina. The site of the lost colony found by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587.
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Roanoke Island
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A statement that can be checked or approved.
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Fact
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A personal view or belief
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Opinion
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A water route believed to flow through North America to Asia.
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Northwest Passage
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A tidal river in eastern New York that empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Hudson River
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Shares of ownership in a company
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Stock
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A crop that is grown to be sold for profit.
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Cash crop
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A person who agreed to work for someone in colonial America for a fixed amount of time to pay for an ocean voyage.
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Indentured servant
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The law-making body of colonial Virginia
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House of Burgesses
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Chief of the Powhatan who helped the English settlement at Jamestown.
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Chief Powhatan
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A large fleet of ships, especially war ships.
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Armada
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The money remaining after the costs of a business have been paid.
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Profit
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English explorer who searched for the Northwest Passage through North America beginning in 1609.
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Henry Hudson
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Italian sea captain in the service of England who was first European to explore North America in search of the Northwest Passage.
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John Cabot
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Italian sea captain in the service of France who was in search of the Northwest passage in 1524.
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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French explorer who became the first European to navigate the St. Lawrence River in 1535.
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Jacques Cartier
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Explorer and founder of Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in North America, 1608. He is known as the "Father of New France."
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Samuel de Champlain
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English army captain whose strict discipline helped the Jamestown settlement to survive.
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John Smith
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Daughter of Chief Powhatan whose marriage to John Rolfe led to the "Peace of Pocahontas".
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Pocahontas
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Jamestown leader whose method of curing tobacco made it a successful cash crop.
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John Rolfe
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Powhatan Chief who led one of the last major Native American battles against the English in Virginia in 1622.
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Openchancanough
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A long arm of the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by Maryland and Virginia.
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Chesapeake Bay
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The name the Powhatan peoples of eastern Virginia had given to their homeland.
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Tsenacomacoh
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A town in southeastern Virginia which was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Jamestown
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An agreement the Pilgrims made before landing in New England to make and obey "just and equal laws".
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Mayflower Compact
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The leader or chief of any group of Native Americans in the Eastern Woodland and Great Lakes region.
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sachem
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Main Wampanoag sachem who made a peace agreement with the pilgrims at Plymouth.
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Massasoit
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Pawtuxet Native American who helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth to survive.
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Squanto
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Wamponoag sachem who was among those who first met the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620.
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Samoset
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Governor of the Plymouth Colony in 1621
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William Bradford
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English army captain at Plymouth who helped defend the Pilgrim colony.
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Miles Standish
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A peninsula in southeastern Massachusetts.
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Cape Cod
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Northeastern region of the United States, containing the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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New England
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A town in southeastern Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620
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Plymouth
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