Grade 5: European Settlement Vocabulary

one person or nation united with another for a common purpose

• ally

• enemy

• friend

a person who settles in a colony

• homeowner

• colonist

• settler

relating to a form of government in which people have the power to rule themselves, often through elected representatives

• dictatorship

• monarchy

• democratic

the first permanent English colony in America, located in Virginia and named after King James I

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• Washington D.C.

a set of rules written by the Pilgrims to help them live together peacefully

• treaty

• Mayflower Compact

• Constitution

a place in Massachusetts where the Pilgrims settled

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

an island off the coast of North Carolina that became the 

first English settlement

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

a person who learns an occupation by getting experience 

under a skilled worker

• apprentice

• skilled

• employee

a person who works for a period of time to pay off money owed for a debt

• indentured servant

• prisoner

• slave

a large farm on which crops are grown by free or enslaved workers

• field

• community

• plantation