US History homework
Vocabulary:
Conquistador: a conqueror, especially one of the 16th-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru.
Settler: (pioneer, colonist, colonial) a person who has to a less occupied area and established permanent residence there, often to the area. Settlers are generally people who take up and it, as opposed to .
Plantation: a colonial settlement.
Triangular trade: a trade between three ports or regions ->
Africa sent slaves to the Americas
The Americas sent sugar, tobacco and cotton to Europe.
Europe sent textile, rum and manufactured goods to Africa.
Pocahontas: Pocahontas is a Native American woman who saved the life of Captain John Smith, a colonial leader, who had been captured by Powhatan’s warriors; she was twelve at that time. She helped try to maintain peace between the two belligerents but was later captured, baptized, named Rebecca, and then married to John Rolfe.
John Rolfe: John Rolfe was one of the early English settlers of . He is credited with the first successful cultivation of as an export crop in the and is known as the husband of Pocahontas.
John Smith: John Smith was an English colonial governor who was elected president of the council and governor of the Virginia colony where the Pocahontas episode took place.
Virginia Company: English trading company chartered by King in 1606 to colonize the eastern coast of North America.
