| A | B |
| Mayflower Compact | First expression of self governance |
| 1620 | Date Mayflower compact signed |
| Jamestown | First permanent North American settlement |
| Roanoke | Settlement that dissapeared, never discovered |
| subsistance farming | farming for individual survival |
| cash crops | farming crops to sell |
| New England Territory | lush forest, rocky, soil, short growing seasons |
| Southern Territories | Long growing seasons, rich soil, good for cash crops |
| Middle Territories | rich soil, short growing season, good for wheat and livestock. Known as the Bread colonies |
| Signs a contract to serve as an unpaid servant | indentured servant |
| forced unpaid laborer for life | slave |
| country that the majority of slaves came from | western Africa |
| chattel | property with no rights |
| Laws that refused basic human rights to enslaved peoples | slave codes |
| rum, molasses, and slaves | goods traded in the Triangle Trade |
| buy goods from another country | import |
| to sell goods to another country | export |
| primary cash crop in southern plantations | tobacco |
| primary Christian sect in New England. Intolerant of disobediance | Puritans |
| Primary religous group in Pennsylvania and Middle colonies. Practice religious tolerance and equality | Quakers |
| Primary method of trade in North | furs |
| Primary method of trade in Southern territories | cash crops, tobacco |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Raids against Native Americans in Virginia over land. |
| Middle Passage | Part of the slave trade, transporting Africans to North America |