| A | B |
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| Puritans | Strict religious group that settled in Massachusetts Bay. |
| Middle Passage | The horrible trip to America endured by slaves. |
| Maryland | Colony founded by George Calvert for Catholics. |
| Patroon | Owner of a large estate in New Netherlands. |
| Roger Williams | Established the colony of Rhode Island for religious freedom. |
| Navigation Acts | Controlled the trade of the colonies. |
| Toleration Act | Granted religious freedom to all Christiansin Maryland. |
| Quakers | Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania. |
| Georgia | Colony set up by George Oglethorpe for debtors. |
| English Bill of Rights | Guaranteed trial by jury. |
| Mercantilism | Economic belief that a European country become wealthy from trade with her colonies. |
| Delaware | Once known as the "lower counties". |
| Shipbuilding | A main occupation of the New England colonies. |
| Rice | A major export of the Southern colonies. |
| Breadbasket colonies | Nickname of the Middle colonies because they grew so much grain . . |
