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| 7459025560 | headright | The right to acquire a certain amount of land granted to the person who finances the passage of a laborer. |  | 0 |
| 7459025561 | middle passage | That portion of a slave ship's journey in which slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas. |  | 1 |
| 7459025562 | elite | The smaller group at the top of a society or institution, usually possessing wealth, power, or special privileges. |  | 2 |
| 7459025563 | indentured servants | A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country. During the seventeenth century most of the white laborers in Maryland and Virginia came from England as indentured servants. |  | 3 |
| 7459025564 | Puritan | A member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship. |  | 4 |
| 7459025565 | Metacomet's War (King Phillip's War) | An armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675-78. King Phillip (Metacomet) reacted against European encroachment onto the Wampanoag territory, was defeated and humiliated by colonists, forced him to sign a new peace agreement that included the surrender of Indian guns. |  | 5 |
| 7459025566 | Pueblo Revolt | 1680 - An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico. The Pueblo Revolt killed 400 Spanish and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province. |  | 6 |
| 7459025567 | Enlightenment | The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of authority andlegitimacy. Advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional governmentand ending the perceived abuses of the church and state. |  | 7 |
| 7459025568 | Separatists | People who believed the Church of England retained too many traces of its Catholic origin and thus, could not be made holy again. Those who formally left the established state church. |  | 8 |
| 7459025569 | Congregationalism | A system of organization among Christian churches whereby individual local churches are largely self-governing. |  | 9 |
| 7459025570 | John Winthrop | Puritan leader credited with the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |  | 10 |
| 7459025571 | Virginia | The first colony of the original thirteen. The birthplace of both presidents and future generals, but also the birthplace of African slavery in English America. This company eventually went bankrupt and was salvaged by becoming a royal colony with a royal governor, William Berkeley, in 1642. |  | 11 |
| 7459025572 | House of Burgesses | Frist representative assembly in the Western Hemisphere, established in Jamestown to protect the property and other rights of Englishmen. |  | 12 |
| 7459025573 | Plymouth Colony | A short-lived but symbolically important colony founded in 1620 at Cape Cod by Separatists and other more secularly-minded colonists. There, 100 surviving colonists signed the Mayflower Compact to increase obligation to stand together. This colony was eventually absorbed by its much larger neighbor, the Massachusetts Bay Colony. William Bradford, the long-term governor of the colony, recorded this history in Of Plymouth Plantation. |  | 13 |
| 7459025574 | Mayflower Compact | Considered the first written constitution of the English-speaking world. Signed by members of the Plymouth colony upon arrival to the New World. |  | 14 |
| 7459025575 | Massachusetts Bay Colony | A Puritan Colony founded by the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629. Made up of Puritans coming to America during the Great Migration. |  | 15 |
| 7459025576 | Anne Hutchinson | A Bostonian who taught doctrines the Puritans believed to be heretical in her home with several men, even ministers, in attendance. For these acts, she was put on trial for heresay and was banished from Massachusetts. |  | 16 |
| 7459025577 | Maryland | Founded by George Calvert, the Lord Baltimore, as a refuge for Roman Catholics facing persecution from Anglican Church. |  | 17 |
| 7459025578 | John Locke | Political philosopher that theorized governments were instituted among men for the preservation of life, liberty and property and that they should employ balance of powers. Wrote the Constitution for the Carolina colony as secretary to one of its eight proprietors. |  | 18 |
| 7459025579 | Cash-Crop Economy | An economic system based on the exportation of certain crops such as sugar, cotton, and coffee. |  | 19 |
| 7459025580 | First Great Awakening | A revival of the Christian Religion as an act of God through the Holy Spirit. The first unifying event int he history of colonial America. |  | 20 |
| 7459025581 | Jonathan Edwards | Preacher from Northampton, Massachusetts, that spread the First Great Awakening through famous sermons, notably "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." |  | 21 |
