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| was an English soldier, sailor, and author. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between 1607 and 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. |
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| First representative house in America which instituted private ownership of land and maintained rights of colonists |
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| Puritan preacher who fled Massachusetts after his views on religious observance became too extreme for the colonists. Founded Rhode Island which granted complete religious toleration |
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| an associate of any number of disparate religious groups advocating for more "purity" of worship and doctrine, as well as personal and group piety |
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| the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was drafted by the Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the compact's rules and regulations for the sake of survival |
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| Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after claiming to have special revelations from God that superseded the Bible, contrary to Puritan doctrine |
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| the first permanent English settlement founded in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London |
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| English colonist in Jamestown, Virginia that married Pocahontas and created a process for curing tobacco |
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| Joint-stock company chartered by a group of Puritans, led by John Winthrop, who taught that the new colony should be a model or "City on the Hill" |
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| led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629 and was elected their governor on October 1629 |
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| in theology, it is the idea that members of a particular religious group are under no obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality as presented by religious authorities |
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| Puritans who believed the Church of England was beyond saving and felt that they must separate from it |
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| Fervent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation-state |
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| the legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land |
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| an economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment |
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| a legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations |
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| an official count of population, often also including other information about the population |
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| concerning the decentralized medieval social system of personal obligations between rulers and ruled |
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| a poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection or training |
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| orginally, religious freedom granted by an established church to a religious minority |
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| a frontier farmer who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement |
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| in politics, a small territory or state between two larger, antagonistic powers and intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them |
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| popular American term for an ethnically diverse population that is presumed to be "melting" toward some eventual commonality |
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| indian leader who ruled tribes in the James River area of Virginia |
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| Elizabethian courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies |
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| The failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh |
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| Soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony |
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