| A | B |
|---|
| Authority | Power or right to rule |
| Indentured Servants | Colonists who agree to work a certain number of years in exchange for passage to North America. |
| Boston Massacre | Incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people. |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Attack against American Indians & colonial government of Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon. |
| Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England. |
| Great Awakening | Religious movement that became widespread in the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. |
| Enlightenment | The age of reason. |
| Pilgrims | Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that settled in the America's. |
| immigrants | People who move to another country after leaving their homeland. |
| factors | A crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers. |
| slave codes | Laws passed in colonies to control slaves. |
| staple crops | Crops that are continously in demand. |
| triangular trade | Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa. |
| town meeting | Political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues. |
| Quackers | "Society of "Friends"; Protestant sect that believed all people could have salvation. |
