| A | B |
|---|
| Mayflower Compact | aggreement for self-government |
| Fundamental Orders | agreement for government in Connecticut |
| town meetings | colony's efforts to govern themselves |
| indentured servants | unpaid servants who were working off the debt incurred by their passage to the New World |
| tobacco, sugar, cotton | cash crops found in the colonies |
| democratic | ruled by the people |
| Rhode Island | largest trade-slaving center in the colonies |
| Maryland | established to protect the rights of Catholics |
| New York | established as a business venture, to make a profit |
| New England | harsh winters and rocky, hilly land |
| Massachusetts | settled to provide religious freedom for Puritans/Separatists |
| Middle colonies | contained people from many countries and cultures |
| Southern colonies | plantations |
| William Bradford | led the Pilgrims |
| William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania |
| Virginia | only colony that protected the Church of England |
| dark skins | made it difficult for slaves to escape to freedom |
| Africans | hard workers used to farming |
| New England colonies | Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire |
| Southern colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| Middle colonies | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware |
