- Benjamin Franklin: Philidelphia inventor, writer, and political leader
- cash crop: A crop grown for sale rather than for the farmer's use
- Dominion of New England: A huge colony formedby the King of England, which included land form southern Maine to New Jersey
- Enlightenment: Intellectual movement that started in Europe
- Fench and Indian War: War that gave teh British control of North America
- George Grenville: Financial expert who was appointed prime minister of Britain in 1763
- George Washington: Led Virginia troops in first battle in the French and Indian War
- Glorious Revolution: Overthrow of James ll
- Great Awakening: Religous revival movement in the colonies
- Jonathan Edwards: Forceful preacher in the Great Awakening
- mercantilism: Theory that countries should acquire gold and focus on exporting goods and owning colonies
- middlle passage: The voyage that brought slaves to America
- Navigation Acts: Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade
- New France: French colony in North America
- Parliament: The lawmaking body of England
- Pontiac: Native American leader who fought the British
- Proclomation of 1763: Law limiting the area of English settlement
- salutary neglect: An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies
- Sir Edmund Andros: Governor appointed by the King of England to govern over the Dominion of England
- slave: Person who is considered the property of another
- Stono Rebellion: A 1739 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina
- Sugar Act: Law passed by Parliament to try to raise money
- triangular trade: The pattern of shipping trade across the Atlantic
- William Pitt: British leader in the French and Indian War