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| 5114080613 | Anglicization | the colonial american desire to emulate English society, including English taste in foods, customs, and architecture | 0 | |
| 5114083647 | Chattel Slavery | Absolute legal ownership of another person, including the right to buy or sell that person. | 1 | |
| 5114087857 | Deism | A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets. | 2 | |
| 5114090594 | Enlightenment ideas | All human beings are born free and equal with a right to life liberty and property. It is the duty of the government to protect the natural rights of its citizens. Enlightenment thinkers were primarily interested in changing the relationship between the people and their government. Government's decisions should be based on laws of nature and reason | 3 | |
| 5114092736 | Freeholder ideal | Land owned in its entirety, without feudal dues or land-lord obligations. Freeholders had the legal right to improve, transfer, or sell their land | 4 | |
| 5114096216 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought | 5 | |
| 5114100142 | Chesapeake Colonies | Term for the colonies of Maryland and Virginia | 6 | |
| 5114103495 | New england Colonies | The term for the colonies of Massachusetts bay, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. Colonies with long, cold winters and a strict focus on religion | 7 | |
| 5114110595 | Southern Colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Colonies with hot summers and mild winters, focus on cash crops which led to need for slaves | 8 | |
| 5114116137 | Natural rights | Life, Liberty, and Property | 9 | |
| 5114118285 | Overt resistance | outright breaking of the rules or social expectations. Slaves were not always subtle in their efforts to gain freedom | 10 | |
| 5114122576 | Covert resistance | when slaves secretly or subtly resisted their masters (breaking tools, stealing food, etc) | 11 | |
| 5114124961 | Print culture | a growing concern with the secular as opposed to the religious issues during the Enlightenment led to this, in which books and newspapers achieved a status of their own | 12 | |
| 5114126818 | Protestant evangelism | Christianity based on emotionalism and spirituality. It was part of the First Great Awakening. Evangelism was a reaction to the Enlightenment priority of rationalism over emotionalism and spirituality. Led by George Whitefield. | 13 | |
| 5114129682 | Royal colonies | Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws. | 14 | |
| 5114130898 | Proprietary colonies | Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors, subject to the king's approval. | 15 | |
| 5114132809 | Salutary neglect | An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies | 16 | |
| 5114134686 | Puritans | A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. | 17 | |
| 5114136162 | Separatists | English Protestants who would not accept allegiance in any form to the Church of England. Included the Pilgrims and Quakers | 18 | |
| 5114186153 | Headright system | Headrights were parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists. | 19 | |
| 5114188459 | Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia | 20 | |
| 5114190167 | House of Burgesses | the first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legislative acts. | 21 | |
| 5114195943 | Plymouth | Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony. | 22 | |
| 5114198148 | Mayflower Compact | 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. | 23 | |
| 5114199509 | Imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. | 24 |
