| A | B |
|---|
| House of Burgesses | Virginia’s lawmaking body |
| separatists | wanted to separate from church and worship Christ in own way |
| pilgrim | person who takes religious journey |
| Mayflower Compact | first document in colonies using self-government |
| toleration | recognition that other people have the right to opinions |
| Puritans | believed their way of life would be example to others |
| town meetings | An assembly of townspeople who decides local issues |
| King Phillip’s War | Metacom leads a war against expansion of Puritans |
| proprietary colony | colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual or family |
| royal colony | Colony controlled by the English king |
| “holy experiment” | a colony in which different religions live peacefully |
| Tidewater | flat lowland that contained swamps on coast |
| Piedmont | region of rolling hills |
| Toleration Act | allowed adult Christians to vote and hold office |
| missions | a place in which the goal was to spread religion in a new area |
