Colonies Vocabulary

The movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere

• Columbian Exchange

• stock

• Roanoke Island

• John White

A settlement far from the country that rules it.

• Chief Powhatan

• colony

• Tomochichi

• charter

England’s first attempt.

• Columbian Exchange

• Cash crop

• Pocahontas

• Roanoke Island

Offered to organize the first colony himself.

• John White

• James Oglethorpe

• Walter Raleigh

• Puritans

Led more than 100 men, women, and children to Roanoke Island

• John White

• charter

• separatists

• debtors

One of the most famous English captains

• stock

• dissenter

• Tomochichi

• Francis Drake

A document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by their ruler.

• debtors

• charter

• colony

• Cash crop

Shares in a company

• stock

• Pocahontas

• debtors

• dissenter

Leader of the Powhatan people

• Walter Raleigh

• Chief Powhatan

• Tomochichi

• James Oglethorpe

Chief Powhatan’s young daughter

• persecution

• Squanto

• James Oglethorpe

• Pocahontas