| A | B |
| european exploration | led to redistribution of world's population |
| commercial expansion | result of triangular trade |
| covenant community | based on ideas of Mayflower compact |
| town meetings | Puritan's effort at direct democracy |
| middle colonies | settled by English, Dutch, Germans |
| middle colonies | came for religous and economic opportunities |
| cavaliers | English nobility who were given land in England by King |
| indentured servants | had passage to new world paid in return for serivce to someone for a period of years |
| 1607 | date Jamestown was founded |
| House of Burgesses | first elected assembly in New World |
| Spain | explored and colonized Caribbean, Central and South America |
| Indians | lost their land, died from European diseases and warfare |
| French | this group got along well with Indians |
| slavery | developed as result of cash crop econonmy in south |
| tobacco, rice, indigo | cash crops of South |
| Puritans | believed in hard work and thrift |
| intolerance | Puritans practiced this when it came to different religous beliefs |
| religous standing | what made you important in the New England colonies |
| dissenters | these people founded Rhode Island |
| tolerance | These colonies practiced this and grew in diversity |