Colonial America Vocabulary


New England Colonies


  • Joint Stock Company (1)
  • Separatists
  • Pilgrims
  • Samoset
  • Squanto
  • Puritans
  • Thomas Hooker
  • Roger Williams
  • Anne Hutchinson
  • Governor William Bradford
  • Governor John Winthrop
  • Great Migration
  • Religious Tolerance
  • Mayflower Compact
  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
  • Town Meeting
  • King Philip’s War
  • General Court


Middle Colonies


  • Patroons
  • Peter Stuyvesant
  • James, duke of York
  • Berkeley and Carteret
  • Quakers
  • William Penn
  • Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch)
  • Breadbasket
  • Proprietary Colony
  • New Amsterdam
  • New Sweden


Chesapeake and Southern Colonies


  • Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Roanoke
  • Croatoan
  • Joint Stock Company (2)
  • Charter
  • John Smith
  • John Rolfe
  • Pocahontas
  • Chief Powhatan
  • Cash Crop
  • Headright System
  • Indentured Servants
  • House of Burgesses
  • Lord Baltimore
  • Toleration Act
  • James Oglethorpe