-the first permanent colony in the U.S.; the English set it up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia

-her marriage to John Rolfe of Jamestown helped colonists form more peaceful relations with the surrounding tribe

-a document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government

-founded a colony based on religious freedom (Quakers) and a representative style of government

- a member of a Puritan separatist sect that left England to settle in the Americas in order to escape religious persecution

-trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa

-a colonist who received free passage to the North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

- an attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government of Virginia’s policies concerning them

- believed that all men were equal and free by nature and there was a social contract that existed between political rulers and the people they ruled

-the first legislative assembly of elected officials in the American colonies (Jamestown). Their successes became a model for establishing governments in later English colonies

- England’s first attempt at setting up a permanent settlement in the North America. It failed however no one is certain what happened.