| A | B |
|---|
| indentured servants | To pay for passage to the Americas, people agreed to work without pay or a certain time period. |
| Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore | Wanted a safe place for Catholics, named it Maryland. |
| estates | pieces of land |
| Nathaniel Bacon | Young planter in Virginia opposed the colonial governnment because it wouldn't allow settlement in the West on Native Lands |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Showed that settlers would not be limited to the coast. |
| John Locke | English philosopher |
| constitution | plan of government |
| James Oglethorpe | Received a charter for a colony of debtors or poor people. |
| debtors | people who were not able to pay their bills. |
| Louis Joilet | French fur trader |
| Jacques Marquette | French priest explored Mississippi River |
| Rene-Robert Cavelier/Sieur de La Salle | followed the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Claimed it for France.Named it Louisiana |
| tenant farmers | settlers paid their lord an annual rent and work for a fixed number of days each year. |
| Missions | Spanish priests built strings of religious settlements. |
