| A | B |
|---|
| Conquistadors | explored South America for Spain |
| Joint-stock company | split the cost of sailing to New World |
| Amerigo Vespucci | 1st European to realize America was a new continent, not Asia |
| charter | royal decree that gave land to individuals |
| Mayflower Compact | Pilgrim contract based on popular rule |
| John Smith | saved VA colony by making everyone work in order to eat |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Pope divided world in "half" between Spain and Portugal |
| Indentured Servants | agreed to work for a no. of yrs. for passage to New World |
| Burgess | Representatives set up to create laws for the colony |
| Lord Baltimore | provided $ to set up the colony of MD |
| Headright system | anyone willing to settle in VA given 50 acres |
| Quakers | religious group that settled in PA; pacificists |
| John Cabot | discovered an island he called "New Found Land"; later lost at sea |
| Separatists | Puritans who disagreed with Church of England; first group to leave |
| Toleration Acts | supposed to give religious freedom - but only for Christians |
| John Winthrop | head of MA Bay Company and governor of MA |
| William Penn | founded Pennsylvania |
