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| English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to go around the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada |
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| was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. |
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| the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders. |
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| involved the British parliament passing a series of acts that allowed increased private ownership. It forced the poor people to migrate to centralized locations such as industrial cities and towns and to seek work in factories and mines. |
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| the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to the eldest son. |
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| a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders. |
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| ommercial trading company, chartered by King James I of England in April 1606 with the object of colonizing the eastern coast of North America between latitudes 34° and 41° N |
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| a British settlement established on the James River in Virginia in 1607, abandoned when the colonial capital was moved to Williamsburg at the end of the 17th century |
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| One of the leading promoters of English colonization in America, he helped to found the colony of Jamestown in 1607 and served as its president 1608–09. When captured by Indians from Powhatan's tribe, he was rescued by Pocahontas, Powhatan's daughter. |
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| was the winter of 1609-1610, when food shortages, fractured leadership, and a siege by Powhatan Indian warriors killed two of every three colonists at James Fort. From its beginning, the colony struggled to maintaining a food supply. |
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| was an English politician, for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state. |
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| First English - Powhatan War |
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| was fought from 1609 until 1614 and pitted the English settlers at Jamestown against an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians led by Powhatan. After the English arrived in Virginia in 1607, they struggled to survive through terrible drought and cold winters. |
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| the English surrounded the country of Ireland and then completely destroyed them, then made them change everything cause they were catholic. |
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| the lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature. |
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| English colonist in Virginia. He perfected the process of curing tobacco. In 1614, he married Pocahontas, the daughter of Indian chief Powhatan. |
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| Second English - Powhatan Wa |
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| was fought from 1622 until 1632, pitting English colonists in Virginia against the Algonquian-speaking Indians of Tsenacomoco, led by Opitchapam and his brother |
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| was an English colonizer who was the first proprietor of the Maryland colony. |
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| included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers. |
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| the statute (1689) granting religious freedom to dissenting Protestants upon meeting certain conditions. |
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| a law passed by the colonial English legislature to provide a legal basis for slavery in the Caribbean island of Barbados. |
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| the war between Charles I and his Parliamentary opponents |
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| He was the leader of the victorious Parliamentary forces (or Roundheads) in the English Civil War. As head of state, he instituted many puritan reforms in the Church of England. He was briefly succeeded by his son Richard(1626–1712), who was forced into exile in 1659. |
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| the process of repairing or renovating a building, work of art, vehicle, etc., so as to restore it to its original condition. |
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| A member of Parliament 1722–54, he received the charter for the colony of Georgia in 1732 and founded Savannah 1733. In 1742, he assured the survival of Georgia by defeating the Spanish at Bloody Marsh. |
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| where settlers went in order to establish a permanent or semi-permanent colonial base. |
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