A minister from Salem, Massachusetts who called for separation of church and state and founded the colony of Rhode Island.

A business in which investors pool their wealth in order to turn a profit.

A soldier and adventurer who took control of Jamestown in its first year.

Created in 1619, the first representative assembly in the American colonies.

A person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America.

An agreement established by the men of Plymouth Colony which called for laws for the good of the colony and set forth the idea of self-government.

A crop produced for profit rather than personal use.

The first permanent English settlement in North America (founded in 1607).

A revolt against powerful colonial authority in Jamestown in 1676.

A religious separatist group that rejected the Church of England and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.

Members of a group from England that settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and sought to reform the Church of England.

Believed that a person could worship God without the help of a church, minister, or Bible; fled to Rhode Island in 1638.

A set of laws that were established in 1639 that expanded the idea of representative government in a part of New England.