| Term | Definition |
|---|
| john winthrop | a lawer who lead, in 1630 about 900 puritans set sail and formed the Massachusetts bay company |
| toleration | recognition that other people have a right to different opinions |
| roger williams | minister of a church that believed that puritans should leave the church of england and that colonists pay native americans for land instead of taking it |
| anne hutchinson | a boston women who questioned some puritan concepts, was expelled in 1638 |
| town meeting | an assembly of towns people that decide on local issues |
| king charles 1 | ruler who forced the puritans to give up their position |
| puritans | people who settled in england |
| back country | the frontier that extended across PA to GA |
| new york | what was later called new netherland |
| william penn | founder of pennsylvania |
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