| A | B |
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| Indentured Servants | a colonist who's passage was paid for by someone they repaid by working for a set number of years. |
| Planter | Someone who owns a large plantation |
| Immigrants | People who come to a new country after leaving the land of their birth |
| Separatists | a group of Puritans who wanted to be separate from the Church of England and start their own church |
| Pilgrims | members of a Puritan Separatist group that left England in the early 1600's to settle in the Americas |
| Puritans | Protestants who wanted to reform (change) the Church of England and make it more "pure". |
| dissenters | Someone who disagrees with official religious or political opinions |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | (1639); a written set of principles that made Connecticut's colonial government more democratic; first American example of democracy. |
| Proprietors | people who own property |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | Maryland law that made it a crime to limit the rights of Christians; one of the first laws protecting religious tolerance (freedom) to be passed in the colonies |
| Quakers | Society of Friends; Protestant sect founded in 1640s in England whose members believed that everyone could have salvation, or be saved and go to heaven |
| Great Migration | mass migration of thousands of English people to the Americas that took place between 1630 and 1640. |
