| A | B |
| nina pinta and santa maria | ships columbus sailed |
| mayflower | ship pigrims saild to plymouth massachuesetts |
| susan constant, discovery, godspeed | ships settlers sailed to jamestown |
| dutch petitioned to be taken over by English | how new york became an english colony |
| new england | town meeting was basis for local government |
| majority rule in plymouth colony | the mayflower compact |
| virginia house of burgesses | first legislative body created in england |
| indentured servants | worked to gain freedom |
| quakers | wanted to abolish slavery |
| shipping and fishing | economy of new england based on |
| smallpox | native americans were destroyed by this disease |
| atlantic seaboard of north america | england colonized here |
| charles city, va | first thanksgiving |
| 1492 | columbus sailed to the new world |
| mayflower compact | document that set up a government for the plymouth colony |
| plymouth rock | pilgrims land |
| jamestown | first permanent enflish colony in north america |
| house of burgesses | first legislative body in american history |
| virginia | first introduced slavery |
| cavaliers | english noblemen who received large land grants |
| john rolfe | colonist who help jamestown prosper |
| middle passage | forced migration of africans across the atlantic to the new world |