| A | B |
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| patroons | owners of huge estates or manors in New Netherland |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Harsh governor of New Netherland |
| "Old Silver Nails" | Nickname of Peter Stuyvesant |
| New York | New name given to New Amsterdam after the English takeover |
| New Jersey | proprietary colony, formed from the larger New York colony and set up by Berkeley and Carteret |
| proprietary colony | land given to one or more people who gave the king a yearly payment |
| William Penn | Englishman who founded the colony of Pennsylvania |
| Quakers | Protestant religious group who believed that all people were equal in God's eyes |
| Pennsylvania | Colony founded which allowed the Quakers to worship freely |
| Frame of Government | Representative governmental plan of Penn's which was used to govern Pennsylvania |
| "Holy Experiment" | Penn's idea of his colony in which religious freedom was promised to all who believed in God |
| Philadelphia | Pennsylvania capital located on the Delaware River |
| Delaware | Colony formed so that Pennsylvania could have an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean |
