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| had wanted to reform the Church of England, but left England which they said had fallen on "evil and declining times" |
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| founded by the Puritans in the 1630s |
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| founder of Connecticut who led 100 settlers out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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| A believer in religious tolerance, he was ordered to leave Massachusetts Bay Colony; He began a colony which became Rhode Island |
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| encouraged the growth of democratic ideas |
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| New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut |
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| New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, |
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| Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
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| formerly known as New Netherlands; the name change came as a result of rivalry between the Netherlands and England |
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| began as a proprietary colony with land given by the Duke of York to friends |
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| founded by the Quakers, who believed that all people were equal, men, women, nobles, and commoners |
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| founded by the Calvert family for Catholics to be able to practice their religion |
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| established by eight English nobels |
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| founded by James Oglethorpe as a place for debtors to make a fresh start |
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| land given by the king in return for a yearly payment |
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| was under the direct control of the king |
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| received "freedom dues" after working four to seven years for anyone who would pay their ocean passage to America |
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| top of society: wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, successful lawyers, and royal officials |
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| skilled craftsmen, farmers who worked their land, some tradespeople |
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| religious movement led by preacher John Edwards which helped spread democratic ideas |
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| a philosophical movement in the 1600s - 1700s that believed reason, scientific methods, and natural laws should govern human behavior. John Lock and Ben Franklin were Enlightenment thinkers. |
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