| A | B |
| Evangelism | Great Awakening Spiritualism emphasizing emotional delivery of the Gospels |
| Indentured servitude | Free passage to new world for 7 years of labor |
| Joint-stock company | Group of investors who buy the right to make a colony |
| Mercantilism | Economic theory, establish favorable balance of trade, mother country controls species |
| Middle Passage | Shipment of slave to new world as part of triangular trade |
| proprietary colony | Colony owned by a one or more individuals |
| royal colony | Colony ruled the king |
| salutary neglect | Lack of English Enforcement of Navigation Act |
| tariffs | Tax on imported goods |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Former indentured servant's revolt against Jamestown Gov't for failure to prevent Indian Raids |
| Glorious Revolution | William and Mary ascent to the thrown demonstrating popular opposition to oppressive rule brings change |
| Great Awakening | Religious Revival of 1730s brought Evangelism to the masses |
| Great Migration | 1630s immigration of 20,000+ Puritans to Mass. Bay Colony |
| King Philip's War | 1675-76 War Between New England Settlers and American Indians |
| King William's War | 1689-97 War between Indians allied with the English and French Settlers |
| Pequot War | 1637-38 War between Mass. Bay Colonist and Conn. American Indians |
| Salem witchcraft trials | 1692 Prosecution of single women as witches |
| starving time | 1609-1610 Jamestown hardship |
| stono uprising | 1739 South Carolina Slave Revolt |
| absolutists | Belief in unlimited power of the Monarch |
| congregationalists | Puritans who wished to purify the Anglican Church |
| Jonathan Edwards | Congregationalist Minister known for "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
| Benjamin Franklin | Early American Inventor, Writer, Educator and Stateman |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan Dissenter advocate of Antinomianism banned from Mass Bay Colony |
| Pilgrims | Separatists who settled at Plymouth Rock |
| Pocahontas | Wife of John Rolfe, famed member of Powhatan tribe |
| Powhatan | Virginian Native American Tribe / Harassed / Harassed by Jamestown Settlement |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | English Explorer, founder of 1587 failed settlement at Roanoke |
| Separatists | Puritans who wanted to break away from the Anglican Church |
| John Smith | Leader of Jamestown Settlement, enforced martial law |
| George Whitefield | Methodist Preacher during Great Awakening |
| Roger Williams | Founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation |
| Charter colony | A type of colony typically owned by a Joint-Stock Company |
| Chesapeake | Middle Atlantic region including Virginian and Maryland Colonies |
| Jamestown | Founded by Joint Stock Company in search of Western Passage and Gold, saved by Tobacco |
| the lower south | Carolinas, concentrated on cash crops, slaves 50%+ of population |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | Northern Puritan Colony based on concept of covenant and served a communal ideal |
| Middle colonies | Most diverse colonies in terms of religion and economic activities |
| New England | Congregationalist Colonies focused primarily on trade |
| Dominion of New England | 1686-1689 defensive alliance to enforce Navigation Acts and Fight Indians |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 1639 Constitution. First in New World |
| Halfway Covenant | 1662 act providing partial membership in Puritan church of Children/Grandchildren of members |
| Maryland Act of Toleration | Freedom of religion guarantee |
| Mayflower Compact | 1620 Agreement acknowledging right to government derives from consent of the governed |
| Navigation Act | 1651 Act required goods bought and sold only to England; non-English goods highly taxed |