| A | B |
|---|
| Gold | This drive for colonization was purely economic |
| God | This drive for colonization was to spread Christianity |
| Glory | This drive for colonization was to spread military strength of the mother country |
| England | This nation colonized on the eastern coast of North America |
| France | This nation colonized in northern North America (Canada) |
| Spain | This nation colonized in South America and Central America |
| Colombus | He "discovered" America in 1492 |
| subsistance farming | growing enough food to eat, without a surplus |
| Puritans | settled in New England, seeking freedom from religious persecution and economic opportunity |
| covenant community | based in ideas of the Mayflower Compact and religious principles |
| 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 Puritan settlement in the New World |
| Joint Stock Company | business venture of people investing money to create a colony, in hopes of making a profit |
| Appalachian | this mountain range prevented English colonists from moving further west |
| House of Burgesses | the first elected assembly in the New World |
| 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" |
