13 Colonies Power Words

the first written constitution in America; it limited government powers and guaranteed more rights to individuals

• religious freedom

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Mayflower Compact

• Frame of Government

the right to choose a religion (or no religion) without interference by the government

• religious freedom

• religious tolerance

• dissenter

• Quakers

when individuals allow others to think or practice other religions and beliefs

• religious freedom

• religious tolerance

• Fundamental Orders

• dissenter

someone who disagrees with the opinion or beliefs of a religious group

• Puritan

• Quaker

• religious freedom

• dissenter

an agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, just before they landed in Plymouth

• Fundamental Orders

• Mayflower Compact

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Bill of Rights

a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World in 1620

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders

• charter

• Declaration of Independence

members of the Religious Society of Friends; a Christian group

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Quakers

• Indentured Servants

members of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

• Anglicans

a place people were sent when they could not pay money they owed

• debtor's prison

• plantation

• blacksmiths

• indentured servants

a crop produced for money rather than being used by the farmer

• cash crop

• agriculture

• farming

• subsistence