| A | B |
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| Puritans | wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England. |
| Separatist | an extreme group of Puritans that wanted to separate from the Church of England |
| Pilgrims | A group of separatists that came to America to escape religious persecution |
| William Bradford & Captain Miles Standish | let the Pilgrims |
| Mayflower | ship that landed at Plymouth |
| Massachusetts | state where Plymouth Rock is located |
| Mayflower Compact | a document that established basic laws & social rules to govern the colony. |
| Mayflower Compact | first attempt at self-government in the colonies |
| Squanto | an Indian who helped Pilgrims by teaching them to fertilize soil, plant corn and catch fish. |
| Thanksgiving | celebration held by Pilgrims to thank God for the colony's success. |
| Education system | formed by Pilgrims to teach children to read and write |
| Church | served as the center of religious life, health care & community well being |
| Worked | What all family members did to survive |
| Women | People who cooked, spun wool, made clothing, soap & butter, carried water, dried fruit and cared for livestock & children |
| Men | spent most of their time repairing tools, working in the field, chopping wood & building shelters |
| Spain | first nation to colonize America |
| Missions | Borderland place for converting natives to Christianity |
| Tobacco | Gave Virginia Colony profits |
| Jamestown | England's first permanent settlement |
| primary source | a story told by a person who was actually there |
| New York & New Jersey | In what states is New Netherland located? |
| Mississippi Valley | Claimed by La Salle for France |
| Tobacco | activity most important to Virginia |
| House of Burgesses | an early self-government legislature in Virginia |
| New England/Jamestown | Colony where William Bradford lived |
| Fur trading | main reason the Dutch came to New Netherland |
| Mississippi | River explored by Marquette, Joliet and La Salle |
| colony | a land ruled by another country |
| plantations | large farms |
| slavery | the practice of holding people against their will and making them work without pay |
| Bartolome de las Casas | a priest who was concered about the treatment of Native Americans |
| borderlands | the lands on the edge of Spain's claims |
| presidios | forts in the borderlands |
| Pedro Menendez de Aviles | built the first permanent European settlement, St. Augustine |
| missions | religious settlements |
| Santa Fe | Capital of the New Mexico Colony |
| haciendas | large homes or estates on the borderlands |
| raw material | a resource that can be used to make a product |
| Roanoke Island | the Lost Colony |
| Stock | part ownership in a business |
| Pocahontas | an Indian woman who helped bring about a short time of peace between groups |
| cash crop | a crop that people grow to sell |
| profit | the money left over after all costs have been paid |
| indentured servants | people who agreed to work without pay fo a length of time to pay for their trip to America |
| legislature | a lawmaking branch of the government |
| represent | to speak for |
| Royal Colony | colony owned by the king |
| secondary source | a record of an event made by someone who was not there at the time |
| Pilgrims | a person who makes a journey for religious reasons |
| King Henry VIII | banned the Catholic Church in England and replaced it with the Church of England |
| compact | a signed agreement |
| majority rule | the idea if more than 1/2 of the people agreed to a law or a decision, everyone had to follow it. |
| Samoset | Native American who spoke English and welcomed the Englishmen |
| Tisquantum | member of the Wampanoag tribe who showed Piligrims where to fish and how to plant crops |
| demand | desire for a product |
| supply | the amout of a good that is offered for sale |
| Peter Minuit | governor of New Netherland |
| New Amsterdam | settlement on Manhattan Island |
| New Sweden | settlement in Pennsylvania |
| allies | partners |
| proprietary colony | the whole colony was owned by one person |
