| A | B |
| First Settlement | Jamestown |
| Escape Religious Persecution | Why Pilgrams came |
| Mayflower Compact | a self governing document |
| Indentured Servants | free passage, voluntary, 4-7 yrs |
| Slaves | Forced labor, lifetime, unfair |
| Slave Codes | strict laws for Southerners |
| The Great Migration | Answer to political and religious problems |
| Rich, fertile land | Southern colonies |
| Northern Colonies | rocky soil, harsh season |
| High demand, low supply | Why slavery |
| Dutch settlement, trade, farming | Middle Colonies characteristics |
| Quakers | tolerant religious people |
| Staple Crops | wheat, oats, barley |
| Huge supply of forests | Trade for New England Colonies |
| Tolerance Act of 1649 | To stop religious pesecution |
| Atlanta, N & S Carolina, Virginia | Southern Colonies |
| Need for Plantations | Tobacco and later rice |
| Self governing | Approach to manage themselves in Colonies |
| Middle Passage | shipment of slaves across Atlantic |
| injustice | treatment of African Americans |