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| John Winthrop | The man selected as the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
| Puritans | These people wanted to reform the Church of England. They called for simpler forms of worship. |
| General Court | After some time in the Massachusetts Bay Colony male church members elected representatives to this assembly. |
| Great Migration | Between 1629 and 1640, more than 20,000 men, women, and children journeyed from England to Massachusetts. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | In 1639, Thomas Hooker and settlers created a government that differed from Massachusetts in two ways. All male landowners could vote and they limited the governor's power. |
| Thomas Hooker | A puritan minister who led 100 settlers out of Massachusetts and settled in Hartford Connecticut. |
| Roger Williams | He believed in separation of church and state. He also believed in toleration. |
| Anne Hutchinson | This person was exiled from Massachusetts because this person claimed they spoke directly with God. This person then settled in Rhode Island where toleration was practiced. |
| Metacom | The leader of the Wampanoag Indians attacked colonial villages throughout New England because settlers were taking their land. |
| Toleration | Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs. In Puritan Massachusetts, non-Puritans were not permitted to worship freely. |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | This colony was set up so that Puritans would have a new land based on the laws of God as they appeared in the Bible. |
| Connecticut | The second colony established after Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts Bay. |
| Rhode Island | The colony that practiced toleration and the idea of separation of church and state. |
| New Hampshire | Originally trading and fishing villages along the north coast of Boston. In 1680, the king of England made these coastal settlements into a separate colony. |
| Puritans religious beliefs | Believed that daily labor honored God as much as prayer. With hard work, they built a thriving way of life. |
| patroons | Dutch owners of huge estates or manors in New Netherlands. Often charged whatever rents they wanted. |
| proprietary colony | Land given by the king to one or more people who were free to divide the land and rent it to others. |
| cash crop | Farming for a surplus and selling the surplus for money on the world market. |
| backcountry | Land along the eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| Great Wagon Road | Path which formerly was an old Iroquois trail in the backcountry. |
| New Netherland | Land owned by the Dutch. The Dutch eventually were defeated by the English changing the name of the colony. |
| New York | Originally known by another name until King Charles I defeated the Dutch and renamed the territory after his brother. |
| New Jersey | Originally part of New York, the Duke of York gave some land to his friends Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret which later became its own proprietary colony. |
| William Penn | This man was known for his belief in the fair treatment of Native Americans. Also founded a colony known as the holy experiment. |
| Quakers | These people believed that all people men, women, and children were equal in God's sight. They refused to bow or remove their hats when in the presence of lords or ladies. |
| Holy experiment | William Penn thought of his colony as a model of religious freedom, peace, and Christian living. |
| Pennsylvania Dutch | German speaking Protestants which settled in William Penn's colony after Penn advertised heavily in Europe. |
| Delaware | Formerly known as the lower counties. Settlers did not want to send delegates to a far away assembly in Philadelphia. |
| Breadbasket Colonies | Also known as the Middle Colonies, these colonies exported so much grain they received a nickname. |
