It is a firsthand account presented by someone present or actively participating in the event.

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom

English dissenters who broke from Church of England, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania

This was caused by the strictness and the incompetence of the Catholic Church.a major group broadly defined as Christianity, which originated from the Reformation and protested and separated from the Roman Catholic Church

to cleanse

1629 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress

Combining raw materials and processed goods into finished products

not willing to accept ways of thinking different from one's own

A grant of authority over a population in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native Americans.

1st written governing document in the colonies

People who wanted to have a separate, or different church. Also known as Pilgrims.