| A | B |
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| Massachusetts Bay | colony started by Puritans in Boston |
| Plymouth | colony started by Pilgrims on Cape Cod Bay |
| Jamestown | earliest successful English colony in the Americas |
| Virginia | land north of Florida claimed by England and named after Queen Elizabeth |
| Roanoke | a "lost colony" along the coast of Virginia |
| Massasoit | Wampanoag sachem who made peace with the Pilgrims |
| Powhatan Chiefdom | Native Americans of Virginia |
| Wampanoag | Native Americans of eastern Massachusetts |
| Algonkian | family group of languages that included many native people of eastern North America |
| Chesapeake Bay | large bay of the southeast |
| John Smith | explorer, writer, and colony leader of Jamestown |
| indentured servant | person who agreed to work for 5-7 years to pay back the cost of their passage to America |
| fishing, furs & lumber | source of wealth in New England |
| House of Burgesses | organization that made laws for the Jamestown colony |
| Mayflower Compact | early agreement of self-government in Plymouth |
| tobacco | source of wealth in southern colonies |
| John Rolfe | Virginia colony leader who married Pocahontas and introduced tobacco as a cash crop |
| 1619 | first Africans arrived in Jamestown |
| Virginia Company of London | merchants who funded English colonies |
| 1607 | year Jamestown was founded |
| 1620 | year Plymouth was founded |
| 1630 | year Boston was founded |
| William Penn | Quaker who founded Pennsylvania |
| John Winthrop | leader of the Puritans of Boston |
| 1675 | "King Phillip's War" against the English in Massachusetts |
| Georgia | colony settled by debtors from English jails |
| charter | document allowing settlement of land in the Americas |
| King Charles | kings of England during colonial times |
| Roger Williams | started a colony with religious freedom in Providence, Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | forced to leave Massachusetts because of religious beliefs |
| Thomas Hooker | founded colony of Connecticut |
| Metacomet | Wampanoag leader who united Native Americans and led war against English settlers |
| Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennyslvania, and Delaware |
| Lenape | Native Americans also called "Delaware" |
| Philadelphia | major city of the middle colonies |
| Boston | major city of the New England colonies |
| Maryland | colony for Catholics founded by Lord Baltimore |
| Muscogee (Creek) | largest group of Native Americans in the southern colonies |
| debtor | person who owes money |
| James Oglethorpe | English army general who founded Georgia |
