| A | B |
|---|
| Massachusetts Bay Company | started in 1629 by Puritans |
| King Charles I | King of England;gave Puritans charter to settle North America |
| Puritans settled what became Massachusetts | 1630 |
| 1634 | Maryland founded |
| 1636 | Roger Williams founded Providence, Rhode Island |
| John Winthrop | leader of the Puritans |
| Boston | first settlement in Massachusetts |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | land is hilly; soil is thin and rocky |
| natural resources of Massachusetts Bay Colony | forests to build homes, fences, tools; fish |
| covenant | a special promise or agreement |
| important ideas to Puritans | everyone should work, and education was important |
| tolerate | to allow people to have beliefs different from your own |
| Roger Williams | founded settlement of Providence so everyone could have freedom of religion |
| Anne Hutchinson | forced to leave Massachusetts; started settlement of Portsmouth |
| Thomas Hooker | started colony of Connecticul in 1636; believed church should be independent and should choose its own leaders |
| paid Naragansett Indians for land | Roger Williams |
| hundreds of Pequot and colonists were killed | Pequot War of 1637 |
| New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine | started after Pequot War |
| Metacomet | leader of Indians during King Philip's War |
