TCI Lesson 6 Vocab

a person who settles in a colony

• colony

• colonist

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

• democratic

• settlement

an island off the coast of North Carolina that became the first English settlement

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

a small community created by settlers in a new territory

• Plymouth

• settlement

a form of government in which the ruler is a king or queen

• monarchy

• democratic

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

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

a form of government where the citizens elect the leaders to make decisions on their behalf

• democratic

• representative government

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

• Mayflower Compact

• settlement

a place in Massachusetts where the Pilgrims settled

• Roanoke

• Plymouth