| Term | Definition |
| Puritans | wanted to purify, or reform, the Anglican church |
| Pilgrims | one separatist group that left England in the early 1600's to escape persecution |
| immigrants | people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country |
| Mayflower Compact | male members on a ship signed this legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good |
| Squanto | this person taught the Pilgrims farming methods and helped them establish relations with the local Native Americans |
| John Winthrop | led a group of Puritans from England to Massachusetts to seek religious freedom |
| Anne Hutchinson | outspoken woman whose religious views alarmed Puritan leaders; put on trial and forced out of Mass. |