| Charter | | A minister of a church in the town of Salem, believed the puritans should split entirely from the Church of England also founded Rhode Island |
| Representative government | | Sent out from London to lead the colony of Jamestown In 1608 |
| John Smith | | Recognition that other people have the right to different opinions |
| Toleration | | Became proprietor after George Calvert his father died and got the assembly to pass the Act of Toleration |
| John Winthrop | | A wealthy man who personally knew King Charles 2 and wanted to find a place for Quakers and founded Pennsylvania |
| Roger Williams | | People who owe money |
| Thomas hooker | | Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon set a boundary line that divided Maryland and Pennsylvania |
| John wheelwright | | The form of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them |
| William Penn | | A large farm where crops such as cotton, sugar, and rice grew |
| Proprietary colony | | A colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual or family |
| Royal colony | | The leader of the puritans who was a respected landowner send lawyer |
| Back country | | A minister who disagreed with puritan leaders and founded the town of Hartford, Connecticut |
| Lord Baltimore | | A document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company |
| Plantation | | Was forced to leave Massacgusetts, and founded the town of Exeter, New Hampshire |
| James Oglethorpe | | Was a frontier region extending through several colonies, from Pennsylvania to Georgia |
| Debtor | | A colony controlled directly by English king |
| Mason-Dixon Line | | He wanted a colony where there would be protection for English debtors |