| A | B |
|---|
| dissented | disagreed |
| Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church. |
| Separatists | Those who wanted to leave and set up their own churches. |
| Pilgrims | The Separatists felt their journey was for a religious purpose they made a pilgrimage. |
| Mayflower | Ship with 102 passengers, 35 were separatists. |
| William Bradford | Leader and historian of the Pilgrims. |
| Mayflower Compact | Pilgrim's formal document that pledged loyalty to England, form of representative government. |
| Squanto | Native who befriended the colonists in Plymouth. |
| John Winthrop | Mass. Bay Company's first governor. Settled in a place called Boston. |
| Great Migration | During 1630s more than 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Mass. to escape persecution of England. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | First written constitution in America. |
| Roger Williams | Settled a colony called Rhode Island in 1644. |
| policy | plan of action |
| Metacomet | Wampanoag chief, known as King Philip wanted to stop settlers on Native lands. |
