| A | B |
| Joint-Stock Company | A business owned by many people. |
| Indentured Servant | A person who works without pay for a certain number of years and return for a passage for to a colony , clothing, food, and shelter |
| Separatist | A person who refuses to accept the authority of the Church of England. |
| Pilgrim | A seperatist who was among the founders of the Plymouth Colony. |
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement that spelled out how to set up the Plymouth colony's government. |
| William Penn | Quaker founder of Pennsylvania colony. |
| Quaker | Member of the religious sect also known as the Society of Friends. |
| James Oglethorpe | Founder of the colony of Georgia. |
| Plantation | A large Farm on which crops are grown for sale. |
| Intolerant | Unwilling to allow others to express beliefs different from one's own. |
| Charter | A legal document that gives permission to explore, settle, and govern land. |
| John Smith | A 28 year old adventurer forced the colony's to plant crops and build. |
| Lord De La Warr | The leader who replaced John Smith, ordered the discourage colonist to return to Jamestown. |
| John Rolfe | The man who made temporary peace for 8 years by marring Pocahontas. |
| apperentices | People who learned a trade from skilled workers. |
| House of Burgesses | On July 1619, the group of elected officials met for the first time this plan of the government modeled on English Parliament worked so well in Virgina they modeled it later in English Colonies. |
| Puritan | They stayed in the Church of England, they argued that it should be purified by getting rid of all its Catholic practices. |
| Massassoit | Leader of the Wampanoag people. |
| John Winthrop | He was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
| Triangle Trade | Trading routes often looks like triangles. |
| Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware english settlers would establish this 4 colony's that vast territory's between New England and Virgina. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | The dutch governor who in 1644 was force to turn over the New Amsterdam to England. |
| surplus | The amount that was more than they needed more home than aboard. |
| Southern Colonies | Maryland, Virgina, The Carolina's, and Georgia are the colonys to be founded on Atlantic Coast, North America. |
| Lord Baltimore | Roman Catholic who was granted land an established Maryland. |
| Middle Passage | Difficult journey across the Atlantic. |
| Wampanoag | A group of Native Americans who befriended the Pilgrims and helped them learn survival skills. |