| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Tobacco & changes in government | Why Virginia's population grew in 1610 |
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in North America. Built in 1607 on the James River |
| John Rolfe | Planter who began growing tobacco as a cash crop |
| Cash crop | a plant that farmers grow to sell at a market |
| Tobacco | an example of a cash crop |
| export | to ship goods from one country or district to another area of the world |
| money | coins or bills used in trading goods |
| indentured servant | a person who agreed to work without pay for a certain time |
| enslaved | this means that someone claimed to own them |
| assembly | a group that makes laws |
| veto | to stop an act from going into effect |
| burgess | a representative to colonial Virginia's House of Burgess |
| House of Burgess | the first group of local representatives in Virginia. Established in 1619. |
| General Assembly | the colonial legislature of Virginia established in 1619 |
| 1613 | The year John Rolfe sent his first crop for export |
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