Colonies Vocabulary

A settlement of people ruled by a distant parent country.

• Parliament

• Colony

• Charter

• Religious Tolerance

The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

• Protestants

• New England Colonies

• Quakers

• Religious Tolerance

The part of England’s government that makes laws

• Protestants

• Charter

• Parliament

• Mayflower Compact

A member of one of the Christian churches that protested and separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century. They supported Martin Luther’s arguments (95 Theses)

• Protestants

• Religious Tolerance

• Parliament

• Puritans

A group of strict English Protestants that wanted to reform the Church of England.

• Mayflower Compact

• Middle Passage

• Parliament

• Puritans

A member of the Puritan Separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

• Colony

A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.

• Indentured Servants

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

A legal document issued by a government that gave certain rights to a person or group

• Religious Tolerance

• Charter

• Parliament

• Mayflower Compact

The route that carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic OCean to North America and the West Indies (Caribbean ISland).

• Southern Colonies

• Protestants

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

A crop grown to be sold for money rather than for use by the grower.

• Colony

• Cash Crop

• Triangular Trade

• Charter