| A | B |
|---|
| separatists | religious group that wanted to separate from the Church of England |
| Pilgrims | a separatist group that settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Virginia Company | joint-stock company that funded the Pilgrims colony |
| Mayflower Compact | signed by the Pilgrims to keep order in the colony |
| Samoset and Squanto | Native Americans who showed pilgrims how to plant, hunt, and fish |
| Puritans | religious group that wanted to "purify" or reform the Church of England |
| Great Migration | movement of thousands of Puritans all over the world |
| John Winthrop | Puritan governor who declared Plymouth would be a commonwealth |
| commonwealth | community in which people work together for the common good |
| congregation | group of people who belong to the same church |
| meetinghouse | most important building in a Puritan town |
| town meetings | form of self-government in Puritan towns |
| General Court | representative, law-making body of the Puritans |
| New England Way | term to describe Puritan beliefs and society |
| Thomas Hooker | Puritan leader who founded Connecticut |
| Fundamentalist Orders of Connecticut | extended voting rights to non-church members and limited power of governor |
| Portsmouth | first settlement in New Hampshire |
| Roger Williams | Baptist minister who founded Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | believed a person could worship God without help of a church, minister, or Bible |
| Quakers | whipped, imprisoned, and hanged by Puritans |
| King Philip's War | fight between the Wampanoag and Puritans over land |
| King Philip | English name for Chief Metacom of the Wampanoag |
| Salem Witchcraft trials | 20 people put to death for witchcraft |
