Small group of Protestants who sought to break away entirely from the Church of England; after initially settling in Holland, a 104 of them made their way to Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts in 1620 and 41 men signed the Mayflower Compact

(Founded in 1630) Established by non-separating Puritans, it soon grew to be the largest (20,000) and most influential of the New England colonies.

Drafted by settlers in the Connecticut River Valley, document was the first "modern constitution" establishing a democratically controlled government. Key features of the document were borrowed for Connecticut's colonial charter and later, its state constitution, and ultimately influences those who write the U.S. Constitution in 1787

Series of assaults by Chief Metacom on English settlements in New England. The attacks slowed the westward migration of New England settlers for several decades. conflict escalated over English movement westward.

Weak union of the colonies in Massachusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut led by Puritans for the purposes of defense and organization against invading dutch, french and Natives, an early attempt at self-government during the benign neglect of the English Civil War

Administrative union created by royal authority, incorporating all of New England, New York, and East and West Jersey. Placed under the rule of Sir Edmund Andros who curbed popular assemblies, taxed residents without their consent, and strictly enforced Navigation Laws. Its collapse after the Glorious Revolution in England demonstrated colonial opposition to strict royal control.

Series of laws passed, beginning in 1651, to regulate colonial shipping; the acts provided that only English ships would be allowed to trade in English and colonial ports, and that all goods destined for the colonies would first pass through England.

Unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade and only weak enforcement of Navigation Laws. Lasted from the Glorious Revolution to the end of the French and Indian War in 1763

Religious group known for their tolerance, emphasis on peace, and idealistic Indian policy, who settled heavily in Pennsylvania in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Antinomian religious dissenter brought to trial for heresy in Massachusetts Bay after arguing that she need not follow God's laws or man's, and claiming direct revelation from God. Banished from the Puritan colony, moved to Rhode Island and later New York, where she and her family were killed by Indians.

Salem minister who advocated a complete break from the Church of England (separatist) and criticized the Massachusetts Bay colony for unlawfully taking land from the Indians and ruling too harshly via Puritanism. Banished for his heresies, established a small community in present-day Rhode Island, later acquiring a charter for the colony from England.the colony had complete religious freedom and separation of church and state.