| A | B |
|---|
| PLYMOUTH | Pilgrims landed here in 1620 |
| MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY | Puritans settled here |
| PURITANS | Religious separatists who want to make their towns into models of pure Christian living. |
| NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE COMMON | A green in the village center, usually with a church meetinghouse at one end. |
| NEW ENGLAND TOWN MEETING | Townspeople gathered and men with property voted on laws |
| ROCKY SOIL, HILLY TERRAIN | This made farming more difficult in the New England colonies. |
| FISHING, TRADING, SHIPBUILDING | New England's economy was based on these industries |
| TRIANGULAR TRADE ROUTES | Sea route connecting England, the English colonies and the west coast of Africa. |
| MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE, RHODE ISLAND, CONNECTICUT | The 4 New England colonies |
| NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA | The 4 Mid-Atlantic colonies |
| NEW YORK | Settled first by Dutch and called New Netherland |
| PENNSYLVANIA | Colony settled by William Penn and Quakers, who wanted religious freedom |
| MARKET TOWNS | Places for trade in the Mid-Atlantic colonies. |
| BOSTON | Important New England port city |
| MID-ATLANTIC COLONIES | These colonies welcomed people of different religions |
| PHILADELPHIA | The largest and wealthiest colonial city during the 1700s. Diverse population and many religions. Busy seaport. |
| THE 5 SOUTHERN COLONIES | Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| INDIGO | An important cash crop in the south that makes a blue dye for clothing |
| RICE, INDIGO, TOBACCO | Profitable cash crops grown on southern plantations |
| GEORGIA | Settled by English debtors |
| 13 | Number of English colonies by the 1750s |
