| A | B |
| Gold | This drive for colonization was to make mother country richer. |
| God | This drive for colonization was to spread Christianity |
| Glory | This drive for colonization was to show military power of mother country |
| England | Colonized the eastern coast of North America |
| France | Colonized central and northern North America (Canada) |
| Spain | Colonized southwestern North America and South America. |
| subsistence farming | growing just enough food to eat, without a surplus |
| Puritans | settled New England, sought freedom from religious persecution; economic opportunity |
| covenant community | based on Puritan ideas of Mayflower Compact and religious beliefs |
| Mayflower Compact | the first written plan of government based on democracy in the New World |
| cavaliers | English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England |
| indentured servants | poor people who agreed to work on a plantation for a number of years in exchange for passage to the New World |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in the New World |
| Plymouth | The Pilgrim settlement in New England |
| Appalachians Mtns | these separated the British colonies from the French colonies |
| House of Burgesses | the first elected assembly in the New World, now called Virginia General Assembly |
| disease | the most deadly aspect of Europeans meeting the Native Americans |
| tobacco | the product that allowed Virginia to become a profitable colony |
| John Smith | saved Jamestown during the "starving time" |
| Pilgrims | Subgroup of Puritans, wanted to separate from Anglican church. |
| direct democracy | New England town meetings were example of this type of decision-making; from ancient Athens |
| indirect democracy | House of Burgesses with wealthy representatives; poor had little say |
| Jamestown | an economic venture, almost failed, saved by tobacco |
| cash crops | indigo, rice, tobacco are these. |
| Great Awakening | Widespread religious movement of the 1740s and 1750s that stressed an emotional personal relationship with God. |
| Roger Williams | religious dissenter who founded Rhode Island |
| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas, Europe, and Africa following Columbus's voyages. |
| Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware |
| Southern Colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| New England Colonies | New Hamphsire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island |
| Quakers | religious group who settled Pennsylvania - very tolerant and nonviolent |
| middle passage | the middle portion of the triangular trade that brought African slaves to the America |
| plantation | large farm that raises cash crops |
| "city upon a hill" | Means that Puritans wanted Massachusetts Bay to be a religious example to world |
| Massachusetts | colony settled by Puritans and Pilgrims |
| "those who do not work, do not eat" | John Smith said to motivate Jamestown settlers |
| New England | public education began here to promote reading of Bible |
| Church of England | Protestant Christian church; official church of England |
| France | This country had better relations with American Indians |