| A | B |
| Philadelphia | largest city in colonial America |
| Benjamin Franklin | the best known American scientist of the colonial era |
| Benjamin Banneker | accomplished farmer, mathematician, surveryor, and astronomer born to free black parents |
| Daniel Boone | most famous American frontiersman of early America |
| bread colonies | Nickname of the Middle Colonies |
| Harvard College | the first institution of higher learning in North America |
| Ole' Deluder Satan Act | provided for the establishment of the first public education system in America |
| deisim | a religion that claims that God created the universe and then abandoned it to operate purely by natural law |
| bicameral | two-house legislature |
| the largest group of immigrants in America | English |