1649 Maryland law providing religious freedom for Christians

Agreement between nations to aid and protect each other

Person learning a trade or craft from a master

1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the government

List of key individual rights and freedoms

Representative to colonial Virginia government

Crop sold for money at market

Legal document granting rights to a person or company

Spanish explorer claiming lands in America for Spain

French colonist living as a fur trapper beyond French settlements

Person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents

School run by women, usually in their own homes

Person unable to pay money owed

1689 document guaranteeing rights of English citizens

Intellectual movement emphasizing reason in Europe (1600s-1700s)

Trade product sent to markets outside a country

Elected representative assembly of Massachusetts Bay Colony

Highest social class in English colonies

1688 movement bringing William and Mary to the English throne, strengthening citizen rights

Religious movement in English colonies in mid-1700s, also known as First Great Awakening

Combination of English and West African languages spoken by African Americans in South Carolina and Georgia

Trade products brought into a country

Plant used to make valuable blue dye

Group with power to make laws

Act of publishing a statement that may damage a person's reputation

A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony.

The theory that a nation's economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations.

In Spain's American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background.

In the New England colonies - craft workers, farmers, and some tradespeople.

A religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion into a new area.

A series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies.

A waterway through or around North America.

A person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony.

German-speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania.

The mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs.

An English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s.

A fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies.

An English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment.

A town in the Spanish colonies; a village or town of the Anasazi or other Native American groups in the American Southwest.

A group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people.

The belief that one race is superior to another.

The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.

A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

A colony under direct control of the English crown.

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights.

A meeting in colonial New England for local government matters.

The trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies.

A nickname for New Englanders.