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| 10333865420 | Columbian Exchange | the transfer of plants, animals, and disease between the American and Europe, Asia and Africa | 0 | |
| 10333865421 | John Rolfe | married Pocahontas and started the planting of tobacco in Jamestown | 1 | |
| 10333865422 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) | 2 | |
| 10333865487 | Peter Stuyvesant | leader of the Dutch colony New Netherland | 3 | |
| 10333865423 | John Winthrop Jr. | First American member of the Royal Society of London | 4 | |
| 10333865424 | Thomas Hooker | Founder of Connecticut | 5 | |
| 10333865425 | Henry Hudson | Explored water around New York City, Hudson Bay & Hudson River. | 6 | |
| 10333865426 | William Penn | Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718) | 7 | |
| 10333865427 | William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth Colony | 8 | |
| 10333865428 | Samuel de Champlain | French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635) | 9 | |
| 10333865429 | Dutch West India Company | Dutch investment company formed in 1621 to develop colonies for the Netherlands in North America | 10 | |
| 10333865430 | Mayflower | The ship that brought the Pilgrims to America | 11 | |
| 10333865431 | Voyageurs | An adventurer who journeyed by canoe from Montréal to the interior to trade with Indians for furs. | 12 | |
| 10333865432 | Lord Baltimore | Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland | 13 | |
| 10333865433 | Quebec | First permanent French settlement in North America, founded by Samuel de Champlain | 14 | |
| 10333865434 | Huguenots | French Protestants influenced by John Calvin | 15 | |
| 10333865435 | Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors | 16 | |
| 10333865436 | Glorious Revolution | the overthrow of King James II of England | 17 | |
| 10333865437 | Enclosure | the process of taking over and consolidating land formerly shared by peasant farmers | 18 | |
| 10333865438 | Proprietor | an owner of a store or other business | 19 | |
| 10333865439 | Franchise | The right to vote | 20 | |
| 10333865440 | Yeomen | Owners of small farms, that did not own slaves | 21 | |
| 10333865441 | Massachusetts Bay Company | A group of wealthy Puritans who were granted a royal charter in 1629 to settle in Massachusetts Bay | 22 | |
| 10333865442 | Indentured Servitude | An agreement to exchange labor for travel expenses an/or job training for a certain amount of time | 23 | |
| 10333865443 | joint-stock company | A company in which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits | 24 | |
| 10333865444 | Virginia Company | Joint-stock company that established the first permanent English colony (Jamestown) in the Americas. | 25 | |
| 10333865445 | Christopher Columbus | He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India. | 26 | |
| 10333865446 | John Smith | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia | 27 | |
| 10333865447 | Pilgrims | English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620 | 28 | |
| 10333865448 | Lord Baltimore | Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland | 29 | |
| 10333865449 | Walter Raleigh | Englishman who sponsored the failed attempt to establish an English colony at Roanoke. | 30 | |
| 10333865450 | Bartolome de Las Casas | Dominican priest who spoke out against mistreatment of Native Americans | 31 | |
| 10333865451 | James Oglethorpe | Founder of the Georgia Colony | 32 | |
| 10333865452 | Acadians | French residents of Nova Scotia expelled by the British. | 33 | |
| 10333865453 | squatter | someone who settles on land without right or title | 34 | |
| 10333865454 | Mestizo | A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. | 35 | |
| 10333865455 | Great Puritan Migration | Mass flight by religious dissidents from the persecutions of Archbishop Laud and Charles I | 36 | |
| 10333865456 | Middle Passage | the voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America | 37 | |
| 10333865457 | Headright System | It was used as a way to attract new settlers to the region and address the labor shortage | 38 | |
| 10333865458 | Paxton Boys | A mob of Pennsylvania frontiersmen led by the Paxtons who massacred a group of non-hostile Indians. | 39 | |
| 10333865459 | Separatists | sub-group of the Puritans who vowed to break completely with the Church of England | 40 | |
| 10333865460 | John Calvin | Protestant reformer who believed in predestination | 41 | |
| 10333865461 | Old Lights vs. New Lights | The Congregationalists split, the old who didn't want to reform and the new who did reform. | 42 | |
| 10333865462 | the "elect" | Calvinist term that means those who had been destined for eternal bliss. | 43 | |
| 10333865463 | Protestant Reformation | A split in the church caused by corruption in the church | 44 | |
| 10333865464 | Halfway Covenant | Offered partial membership rights to people who have not yet converted. | 45 | |
| 10333865465 | Anne Hutchinson | American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643) | 46 | |
| 10333865466 | John Cotton/John Winthrop | Puritan preachers in the Mass. Bay, believed in the calling to do God's work on Earth | 47 | |
| 10333865467 | Visible Saints | according to Puritans, only these individuals should be admitted to church membership | 48 | |
| 10333865468 | Covenant | An agreement | 49 | |
| 10333865469 | Conversion | When your life is changed by giving yourself to God | 50 | |
| 10333865470 | Predestination | Calvin's religious theory that God has already planned out a person's life. | 51 | |
| 10333865471 | Antinomianism | The idea that faith alone, not deeds, is necessary for salvation. | 52 | |
| 10333865472 | Quakers | Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people | 53 | |
| 10333865473 | Calvinism | Religious teachings based on the ideas of the reformer John Calvin | 54 | |
| 10333865474 | Puritans | Protestants in England inspired by Calvinist ideas | 55 | |
| 10333865475 | Protestant Ethic | The work ethic the Puritans lived by, all work and no play. | 56 | |
| 10333865476 | Institutes of the Christian Religion | This was the work by John Calvin that described to the world the ideology of John Calvin | 57 | |
| 10333865477 | Jeremiads | New form of sermon at Puritan pulpit that scolded parishioners from their waning piety. | 58 | |
| 10333865478 | The Great Awakening | A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s | 59 | |
| 10333865479 | Johnathan Edwards | Helped start great awakening and wrote sinners in the hands of an angry god | 60 | |
| 10333865480 | George Whitefield | Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights." | 61 | |
| 10333865481 | Phyllis Wheatley | first African american poet, sold into slavery, raised and educated in her family, household servant | 62 | |
| 10333865482 | John Peter Zenger | New York publisher who was taken to court for criticizing the governor of New York | 63 | |
| 10333865483 | Crevecoeur | The man who believed that "Americans" have risen out of an ethnically mixed breed. | 64 | |
| 10333865484 | Dominion of New England | A huge colony formed by the King of England, which included land from southern Maine to New Jersey | 65 | |
| 10333865485 | Royal Charter | used to establish colonies under the control of the crown | 66 | |
| 10333865486 | Spanish Armada | Large fleet of ships sent to invade England and restore Catholicism | 67 | |
| 10335675788 | King Phillip's War | 1675-1676 Native American uprising against the Puritan colonies | 68 | |
| 10335675789 | Queen Anne's War | American phase (1702-1713) of Europe's War of the Spanish Succession | 69 | |
| 10335675790 | King William's War | (1689-1697) First conflict between French settlers and British (American) colonists. | 70 | |
| 10335675791 | Primogeniture | A system of inheritance in which the eldest son in a family received all of his father's land. | 71 | |
| 10335675792 | Maryland Act of Toleration | A law mandating religious tolerance for all forms of Christianity in Maryland | 72 | |
| 10335675793 | House of Burgesses | Elected assembly in colonial Virginia, created in 1618. | 73 | |
| 10335675794 | Fundamental Orders | 1639, constitution of Connecticut in which the regime was democratically controlled by citizens | 74 | |
| 10335675795 | Navigation Laws | laws that restricted American trade with other countries | 75 | |
| 10335675796 | Mayflower Compact | A legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good | 76 | |
| 10335675797 | Bible Commonwealth | name for the Massachusetts Bay colony that refers to its tax supported churches and visible saints. | 77 | |
| 10335675798 | New England Confederation | the first significant attempt at political unity among the colonies | 78 | |
| 10335675799 | General Court | Representative assembly of Massachusetts Bay | 79 | |
| 10335675800 | Bacon's Rebellion | colonial rebellion against the governor of Virginia | 80 | |
| 10335675801 | Regulator Movement | Citizens of rural South Carolina organized to combat lawlessness in the Up Country | 81 | |
| 10335675802 | Molasses Act | Attempt by British authorities to squelch colonial trade with French West Indies | 82 | |
| 10335675803 | Edict of Nantes | document that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots | 83 | |
| 10335675804 | War of Jenkin's Ear | (1739) Small scale clash between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean and Georgia. | 84 |
