1. Missionary- a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.
2. Viceroy- a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India.
3. Northwest Passage - a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
4. Samuel De Champlain - French explorer in the Americas: founder of Quebec; first colonial governor
5. charter – a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
6. joint stock company - an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock
7. Powhatan - North American Indian chief in Virginia, father of Pocahontas and founder of the Powhatan Confederacy
8. House of Burgess –
9. Royal Colony - a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state.
10. Proprietary Colony - any of certain colonies, as Maryland and Pennsylvania, that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and that were granted full rights of self-government.
11. Puritan - a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship
12. Separatist – a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
13. Pilgrim - a person who journeys, esp. a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.
14. Mayflower Compact - an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
15. John Winthrop - English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
16. Pequot War
17. King Phillip’s War
18. Bacon’s Rebellion
19. Pocahontas
20.Walter Raleigh
21. Indentured servant
22. Triangular trade
23. Magna Carta
24. English Bill of Rights
25. Habeas corpus
26. Salutary neglect
27. Mercantilism
28. Navigation Act
29. Enlightenment
30.Benjamin Franklin
31. George Washington
32. French Indian War
33. Pontiac’s Rebellion
34. Proclamation of 1763
35. Albany Plan of Union
36. Stamp Act
37. John Adams
38. Patrick Henry
39. Sons of Liberty
40. non-importation agreement
41. Boston Massacre
42. committee of correspondence
43. Boston Tea Party
44. Intolerable Acts
45. First Continental Congress
46. militia
47. Loyalist
48. Second Continental Congress
49. George Washington
50.Thomas Paine
51. Declaration of Independence
52. Thomas Jefferson
53. Natural Rights
54. Cornwallis
55. Yorktown
56. Saratoga
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