| A | B |
|---|
| toleration | willingness to let others practice their own customs and beliefs |
| town meeting | session in which citizens discuss and vote on local community issues |
| John Winthrop | leader of the religious group Puritans who set up a colony in Plymouth |
| Puritans | group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| General Court | an assembly of church members elected representatives |
| Thomas Hooker | Puritan minister led to settle in Connecticut |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | plan of government giving property owners a vote, and limited governor's power |
| Roger Williams | preached toleration and separate of church and state |
| Anne Hutchinson | fled to Rhode Island , devout Puritan, who began to express her own views. |
| Metacom | leader of the Wapanoag Indians, led attacks on villages throughout New England (1675) |
