| A | B |
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| Jamestown | English settlement in Virginis founded in 1607 |
| John Smith | leader and colonist of Jamestown |
| Pocahontas | Powhatan Indian woman who married John Rolfe of Jamestown |
| indentured servants | colonists who worked for other people who paid for them to come to America |
| Puritans | Protestant group who wanted to purify (reform) Church of England |
| Pilgrims | Protestant group who cut all ties with Church of England and got punished |
| immigrants | people who left country they were born in to go to another country |
| Mayflower Compact | legal contract, male passengers on Mayflower signed for fair laws to protect everyone |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan woman who said her religious view came from God, forced to leave Mass. Bay colony |
| Peter Stuyvesant | director general, took control of New Amsterdam 1647 |
| Quakers | Protestant group, founded by George Fox mid 1600s, England |
| William Penn | Quaker leader began Pennsylvania colony |
| staple crops | crops that are always needed, wheat, barley, oats, etc. |
| town meeting | assembly where colonists decided issues and made laws |
| triangular trade | indirect trade between American colonies and Great Britain |
| Middle Passage | slaves' voyage on boats across Atlantic Ocean from Africa |
| Samuel Adams | Boston leader, believed Parliament can't tax colonists without their permission |
| Committees of Correspondence | communication between towns and colonies about British laws |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | law requiring colonists to pay for official stamp when buying paper items |
| Boston Massacre | when British soldiers shot 5 colonists |
| Tea Act | act allowing British company to sell cheap tea to colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | protest where colonists dumped crates of tea into Boston Harbor in protest of tax |
| Intolerable Acts | laws passed by British to punish colonists for Boston Tea Party |
