| A | B |
|---|
| Boston | where the Puritans settled |
| Religion | very important daily in Puritan lives |
| Harvard College | college founded by Puritans |
| Cotton Mather | covered Salem's witchcraft trials |
| Johnathan Edwards | minister who wrote the sermon that sent his congregation into hysterics |
| Anne Bradstreet | female Puritan poet |
| tabula rasa | means blank slate |
| Townshend Act | taxed paper, paint, glass, lead, tea |
| Boston Massacre | British troops fired into mob in Boston, killing five people |
| where The Revolutionary War began | Concord and Lexington |
| where The Revolutionary War ended | Yorktown, Virginia |
| General Cornwallis | general who surrendered |
| General Washington | general whose forces won the war |
| General Washington | first President of the US |
| John Adams | second President of the US |
| Thomas Jefferson | third President of the US |
| Noah Webster | the dictionary |
| Ben Franklin | Poor Richard’s Almanac |
| famous orator | Patrick Henry |
| famous for writing most of The Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| Mayflower | ship that brought the Pilgrims to the New World |
| Coercive Acts | renamed Intolerable Acts by the colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | this rebellion by the colonists resulted in tea being dumped into Boston Harbor |
| England | country who won the French and Indian War |
| "I think, therefore, I am." | cogito ergo sum |
| Stephen Vincent Benet | We Aren't Superstitious |
| Aphorism | witty saying that give advice or wisdom |
| author of famous aphrosims | Ben Franklin |
| Arthur Miller | author of The Crucible |
| Michel de Crevecoeur | What is an American? |
| Cal Ripkin, Jr | comtemporary sports hero who show Puritan work ethic |
