| A | B |
| New England colonies | RI-CT-MA-NH |
| Middle colonies | NY-DE-NJ-PA |
| Southern colonies | VA-MD-GA-NC-SC |
| John Smith | captain at Jamestown who saves the settlement |
| Lord Baltimore | set up the colony of Maryland |
| James Oglethorpe | founded the colony of Georgia |
| Peter Minuit | bought Manhattan Island from Indians |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Governed New Netherlands, which later becomes New York |
| William Penn | founded Pennsylvania |
| John Berkeley and George Carteret | set up the colony of New Jersey |
| Roger Williams | set up the colony of Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | forced to leave Mass. for criticizing the Puritans |
| Thomas Hooker | set up the colony of Connecticut |
| John Winthrop | 1st governor of the Massachusettes Bay Colony |
| Samoset | introduced Pilgrims to Massasoit, a chief who later helps them |
| Squanto | shows Pilgrims how to plant crops and catch fish |
| Roanoke | 1st English settlement-later found deserted |
| Jamestown | 1st permanent English settlement |
| Plymouth | founded by the Pilgrims in 1620 |
| Mayflower | the Pilgrim's ship |
| Puritans | English prtotestants who settled in Mass. |
| Quakers | Protestant reformers who settled in Penn. |