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| 4915951433 | Chattel slavery | A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like property | 0 | |
| 4915951434 | Encomienda | A grant of Indian labor in Spanish America given in the 16th century by the Spanish kings to prominent men. Encomenderos extracted tribute from these Indians in exchange for granting them protection and Christian instruction. | 1 | |
| 4915951435 | Columbian exchange | The massive global exchange of living things, including people, animals, plants, and diseases, between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that began after the voyages of columbus. | 2 | |
| 4915951436 | Mercantilism | Our system of political economy based on government regulations. Beginning in 1650, Britain enacted navigation acts that controlled colonial commerce and manufacturing for the enrichment of Britain | 3 | |
| 4915951437 | House of Burgesses | Organ of government in colonial Virginia made up of an assembly of representatives elected by the colony's inhabitants | 4 | |
| 4915951438 | Royal Colony | In the English system, a royal colony was chartered by the crown. The colony's governor was appointed by the crown insert according to the instructions of the board of trade. | 5 | |
| 4915951439 | Headright system | A system of land distribution, pioneered in Virginia and used in several other colonies, that granted land usually 50 acres - to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival. Buy this means, large planters amassed huge land holdings as they imported large numbers of servants and slaves. | 6 | |
| 4915951440 | Indentured servitude | Workers contracted for service for a specified period. In exchange for agreeing to work for four or five years (or more) without wages in the colonies, indentured workers received passage across the Atlantic, room and board, and status as a free person at the end of the contract period. | 7 | |
| 4915951441 | Pilgrims | One of the first protestant groups to come to America, seeking a separation from the church of England. They founded Plymouth, the first permanent community in new England, in 1620. | 8 | |
| 4915951442 | Puritans | Dissenters from the church of England who wanted a genuine re-formation rather than the partial re-formation sought by Henry VIII. The Puritans religious principles emphasized the importance of an individual's relationship with God developed through Bible study, prayer, and introspection. | 9 | |
| 4915951443 | Covenant of works | That would save the well behaved | 10 | |
| 4915951444 | Covenant of grace | The Christian idea that God's elect are granted salvation as a pure gift of grace. This doctrine holds that nothing people do can erase their sentence or earn them a place in heaven. | 11 | |
| 4915951445 | Town meeting | A system of local government in new England in which all male heads of households that regularly to elect selectmen, levy local taxes, and regulate markets, roads, and schools. | 12 | |
| 4915951446 | Openchancanough | Powhatan's younger brother and successor | 13 | |
| 4915951447 | Lord Baltimore | Catholic aristocrat Cecilius Calvert | 14 | |
| 4915951448 | John Winthrop | Well educated country Squire who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. | 15 | |
| 4915951449 | Roger Williams | The Puritans minister in Salem | 16 | |
| 4915951450 | Anne Hutchinson | The wife of a merchant and mother of seven, Hutchinson held weekly prayer meetings for woman and accused various Boston clergymen of placing undue emphasis on good behavior. | 17 | |
| 4915951451 | Metacom | Wampanoag leader known as King Philip | 18 |
