| Term | Definition |
| Plymouth Rock | a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower |
| Jamestown | the name of the second English settlement in North America. It was started in present-day Virginia |
| turkey | large bird with fan-shaped tail |
| Pilgrims | A religious group that settled the Plymouth Colony |
| Mayflower | the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620 |
| Wampanoag | Indians that the Pilgrams invited to share the first Thanksgiving dinner |
| colonist | a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country |
| treaty | a written agreement between two groups of people |