| A | B |
| colonization | the act of creating new settlements |
| dissenter | People who disagree with official religious or political opinions |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | The first written set of principles (constitution) written in 1639 by Thoams Hooker |
| House of Burgesses | Colonial Virginia’s elected assembly. |
| immigrants | People who move to another country after leaving their homeland. |
| Mayflower Compact | Document written by the Pilgrims that established general guidelines for self government |
| pilgrims | Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England to settle in the Americas |
| 1619 | year Virginia House of Burgesses was created |
| 1215 | year Magna Carta was created |
| 1620 | Year Mayflower Compact was signed |
| 1607 | year Jamestown was settled |
| 1639 | year Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were written |
| New England Town Meetings | Political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues |
| Roger Williams | founder of Connecticut, former Puritan minister |
| William Penn | Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania |
| Lord Baltimore | founder of Maryland |
| John Smith | founder of Jamestown |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan dissenter who joined Roger Williams in Connecticut |
| William Bradford | governor of the Plymouth colony |
| Quakers | peacful group of people that settled Pennsylvania |
| puritans | a Protestant group of people that wanted to reform or "purify" the Church of England |
| Catholics | group that settled colony of Maryland |