| A | B |
| Navigable | Able to be guided or directed, especially on rivers |
| Exports | Goods shipped out of a country |
| Barter | To trade goods without using a money system |
| Frontier | The area that separates settled land and the wilderness |
| Authority | Power or control |
| Imports | Goods shipped into a country |
| Triangle Trade Route | One of the most important English trade routes on the Atlantic Ocean |
| Militia | A military unit made up of volunteers |
| Official | A person holding an office |
| Meetinghouse | The church located on one end of the common |
| Village Green | The center of a New England village |
| Roger Williams | Founded the settlement of Providence which was part of the colony of Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | She questioned the authority of Puritan ministers and was asked to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She founded the settlement of Portsmouth. |
| Thomas Hooker | Left the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded the settlement of Hartford located in the colony of Connecticut |
| Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire | After King Phillip's War, many settlers began pushing up the Connecticut River and settled in these colonies. |
| Nantucket | A valuable whaling and oil bearing town off the coast of Massachusetts. |
| Oloudah Equaiana | An educated slave who was taken from his home as a young teenager against his will. He and his sister were separated and forced to work as slaves. Because he was educated, we have written accounts of slave life. |