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| crown granted a person a specified number of natives of whom they were to take responsibility. The receiver of the grant was to instruct the natives in the Spanish language and in the Catholic faith. In return, they could exact tribute from the natives in the form of labour, gold or other products, such as in corn, wheat or chickens. |
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| Company funded and run by a group of investors who share the company's profits and losses. |
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| A settlement on a peninsula within chesapeake bay near the James River set up in 1607 by the Virginia company in honor of their king, James I. |
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| People who had to work from a master for around 7 yrs in order to pay for the crossing to Virginia. |
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| Colony with a governer appointed by the king. |
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| Led Bacon's Rebellion who raised an army to fight Native Americans. Him and his supporters burned Jamestown and controlled almost all of Virginia in protest saying that Governer Berkeley failed to protect the western settlers. |
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| Virginia legislature formed in 1619. |
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| Person who favored the the purification of England's Anglican Church. |
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| Ship that 100 pilgrims went on to get to North America to make a new home. |
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| English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvannia in 1682. |
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