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| 6978473735 | buffer | In politics, a territory between two antagonistic powers, intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them. In British North America, Georgia was established as a buffer colony between British and Spanish territory. | 0 | |
| 6978473736 | charter | Legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations. British colonial charters guaranteed inhabitants all the rights of Englishmen, which helped solidify colonists' ties to Britain during the early years of settlement. | 1 | |
| 6978473738 | House of Burgesses | Representative parliamentary assembly created to govern Virginia, establishing a precedent for government in the English colonies. | 2 | |
| 6978473739 | Iroquois Confederacy | Bound together five tribes—the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas—in the Mohawk Valley of what is now New York State. | 3 | |
| 6978473741 | joint-stock company | Short-term partnership between multiple investors to fund a commercial enterprise; such arrangements were used to fund England's early colonial ventures. | 4 | |
| 6978473742 | primogeniture | Legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land. Landowner's younger sons, forced to seek their fortunes elsewhere, pioneered early exploration and settlement of the Americas. | 5 | |
| 6978473747 | squatter | A Frontier farmer who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement. | 6 | |
| 6978499414 | nationalism | Fervent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation-state. | 7 | |
| 6978506037 | census | An official count of population, often also including other information about the population. | 8 | |
| 6978512837 | feudal | Concerning the decentralized medieval social system of personal obligations between rulers and ruled. | 9 | |
| 6978562560 | indentured servant | A poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection, or training. | 10 | |
| 6978573069 | toleration | Originally, religious freedom granted by an established church to a religious minority. | 11 | |
| 6978578408 | melting pot | Popular American term for an ethnically diverse population that is presumed to be "melting" toward some eventual commonality. | 12 | |
| 7056934175 | proprietor | a person who was granted charters of ownership by the king: | 13 | |
| 7056934715 | yeoman | An owner and cultivator of a small farm | 14 | |
| 7056945757 | starving time | The name for thewinter of 1609 to 1610 in the colony of Virginia in which only sixty members of the original four hundred colonists survived. | 15 |
