| A | B |
| Puritans | wanted to purify the way they worshiped |
| The Backcountry | the land westward near the Appalachian Mountains |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | Chief Pontiac led the Ottawa tribes to attack the English colonies because they were moving into their hunting lands |
| Taxation with Representation | caused the English colonists to become unhappy with British rule because they were being taxed and had no one to represent their needs in Parliament |
| Boston Tea Party | colonists protested the Tea Tax by dumping tea in the Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | the King order the harbor closed to trade, made the colonists take care of the British soldiers, and could not hold government meetings |
| First Continental Congress | colonial leaders signed a petition to ask the king to correct the problems between the colonies and England |
| Second Continental Congress | signed the Olive Branch Petition as a final attempt at peace |
| Patriots | colonists who wanted to separated and become an independent country from England |
| Loyalists | colonists who were loyal to the King and British rule |
| highway maps | used to find routes to travel such as on trips or vacations |
| population maps | show how many people live in an area |
| climate map | shows types of climates or amount of rainfall in an area |
| natural resource map | shows the resources found in an area |
| physical map | shows landforms and bodies of water in an area |
| political map | shows countries, parishes and or counties in an area |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Horses | a resource brought over from Europe and adopted by Native Americans for hunting |
| Adobe homes | were good for Pueblo tribes to get air to pass through their homes |
| Spanish conquistadors | treated the Native Americans and Africans very cruelly |