| A | B |
|---|
| dissenter | people who refuse to conform to authority |
| patroon | huge grants of land along the hudson river |
| civil rights | political and economic social rights |
| royal colony | colony directly under the king's control |
| New England Colonies | Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire |
| Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware |
| Southern Colonies | Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia |
| Toleration Act | first law protecting religious freedom in the colonies |
| Anne Hutchinson | disputed teachings and authority of Puritan Church |
| Roger Williams | believed Colonists should pay Native Americans for land the colonists were taking |
| Thomas Hooker | Puritan minister |
| Henry Hudson | sailed up the Hudson River in 1609 |
| Quakers | religious and kind but were regarded as dangerous and unmanageable |
| William Penn | Quaker who journeyed to Pennsylvania and spoke of colony as a "holy experiment" |
| George Calvert | founded the colony of Maryland in 1625 |
| Jamestown | settlement of Virginia |
| James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia |
