| A | B |
| mission | church/school to teach Indians about the Roman Catholic faith |
| encomienda | huge estate owned by Spanish |
| colonization | sending settlers to far away land |
| fort | a place of defense;military post |
| tax | money or property paid to the government |
| investor | person who puts up money for a business |
| profit | money made by a business after all expenses have been met |
| Puritan | a member of a Protestant group who believed in simple ceremonies and strict discipline |
| Separatist | a member of the Church of England who left the church |
| Pilgrim | one of the English Puritans who founded the colony of Plymouth in New England |
| pilgrim | a person on a holy journey |
| Quaker | a religious group that believed in equality and pacifism |
| pacifism | the belief that war and violence are the wrong way to solve problems |