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| Established first English colony in North America. Its purpose was to supply raw materials to England. |
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| An uprising of former indentured servants, poor colonists and slaves against the Governor of Virginia and other landowners. They demanded harsher treatment of Native Americans for the purpose of securing more land for themselves. This caused the government to impose more strict regulation of slavery. |
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| A response to declining church membership among Puritans in the New England colonies. It allowed partial membership with the hope that future generations would become full members. |
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| A mid-Atlantic colony founded by William Penn and settled by religiously tolerant Quakers. |
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| The practice of slavery brought together a wealth of pan-African culture and knowledge. This included important artistic forms as well as advanced knowledge in areas such as agricultural techniques. This blending of many African cultures and English culture synthesized to form the basis for African-American culture. |
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| An important Native American chieftain who led a large consolidated group of Native Americans in the area that became the Virginia Colony. He was alternatively at war and at peace with the Jamestown and was the father of Pocahontas. |
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| A New England colony founded by people who left Massachusetts to establish a more religiously tolerant society. |
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| The English colonies located between the New England and Virginia Colonies including Pennsylvania and New York. |
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| The middle portion of a triangular trade route linking Europe, the Americas, and Africa. This is the route that infamously brought African slaves to the American colonies |
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| The first colonial legislature in North America established in the Virginia Colony. |
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| A New England colony established by the Puritans for the purpose of religious freedom. |
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| A series of court hearings during which 150 Massachusetts colonists were tried for use of witchcraft. Nineteen of them were hanged. |
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| A Dutch colony in North America seized by the British in 1664. |
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