| A | B |
| Quebec | first French settlement in the New World |
| St. Augustine | first Spanish settlement in the New World |
| John Cabot | first man to claim land for England in the New World |
| New France | Canada was first named this |
| Amerigo Vespucci | first person to realize that America was a New World |
| a dame school | where many colonial children began their education |
| San Salvador | place where Columbus first landed |
| Plymouth | name of the first Pilgrim settlement |
| Mayflower | Pilgrims came to America on this ship |
| Mayflower Compact | Pilgrims agreed to govern themselves by this document |
| Quakers | Penssylvania was settled to be a refuge for these people |
| New York | English, French, and Dutch all claimed this land |
| Catholics | Maryland's found intended the colony to be a refuge for them |
| Harvard | first college in America |
| 13 | original colonies |
| James Oglethorpe | man who founded the colony of Georgia |
| John Smith | leader of Jamestown who made people work for their food |
| Christopher Dock | Mennonite schoolteacher who wrtoe the first school manual in America |
| Roger Williams | man who founded the colony of Rhode Island |
| George Whitefield | preacher who started the first orphanage in America |
| Paul Revere | famous American silversmith and patriot |
| William Penn | man who founded the colony of Pennsylvania |