| A | B |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | started Roanoke, Virginia |
| Roanoke | people mysteriously disappeared |
| Jamestown | established after Roanoke failed |
| Pocohontas | chief's daughter that married a colonist |
| headright | 50 acres of land given to settlers |
| separatists | separated from the Catholic church |
| Squanto and Samoset | Native Americans that taught the colonists how to survive |
| Roger Williams | founded Rhode Island |
| Metacomet | waged war against the colonists |
| New York | started as New Netherland when England gave land to settlers |
| William Penn | a "holy experiment" by pacifists, who started Pennsylvania |
| Virginia | established in large part due to success in growing tobacco |
| James Oglethorpe | started Georgia |
| Georgia | poor people and debtors sent here for a fresh start |
| Georgia | started as a "blockade" for Spain in Florida |
| Bacon's rebellion | attacked Native Americans and wanted to spread westward |
| Farming | helped get colonists started |
| Charter | document that gave colonists right to settle a colony |
| sharecroppers | used land and gave part of the crops to the landowner |
| indentured servants | worked without pay for a length of time |