The New England Colonies

Members of a group of English people who wanted the Anglican church to be more "pure"

• Catholics

• settlers

• Puritans

sachem

• a crop grown in the South

• the leader or chief of any group of Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Lakes regions

• the name of a Native American tribe

Protestants who believed in separating from the Church of England to set up their own churches

• English

• Catholics

• Separatists

Mayflower Compact

• a room on the Mayflower

• a brand of makeup

• an agreement the Pilgrims made before landing in New England to make and obey "just and equal laws"

covenant

• contract or agreement

• a secret

• a type of bird

common

• a coffee shop

• a place where women gather to talk

• a grassy area or center of Puritan villages

town meeting

• gathering of a town's citizens to discuss and solve local problems

• a block of homes

• a settlement

tolerate

• making sure people have the same beliefs as you

• a type of animal

• allowing people to have different beliefs than your own

Pequot War

• a war in Pequot, Virginia

• a war between the Pequot Indians and Conneticut colonists

• a war in the Southern colonies

King Phillip's War

• war between the Wampanoag and Massachusetts colonists

• war between the King and the colonists

• war between the colonists