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Land that became the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

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People who wanted a "purer" kind of church. Some of the Puritans started separate churches of their own and were called Separatists.

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An attack on a person because of their beliefs. Both the Puritans and the Separatists were persecuted.

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A group of separatists that came to North America. They were looking for a new home in North America where they could be free to worship.

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An agreement between all of the settlers to obey all of their governments laws. The Compact was made in fear that the group would break up.

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The first flood of colonists that came to New England. Massachusetts Bay colony had roughly 20,000 people by 1643.

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The idea that people of different religious beliefs should live in peace together. The puritans who came to North America did not believe in religious tolerance.

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Trials were held to determine if the accused townspeople really were witches. Massachusetts authorities ordered twenty men and woman to die by hanging.

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The Massachusetts bay colony sent an army to fight the Pequot people after multiple violent incidents between the Natives and the Colonists. The Puritans burned down a Pequot fort near Mystic, Connecticut killing over 500 people inside.

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Indians from Rhode island to Maine attempted to drive out the English from North America. They destroyed 112 English towns and attacked 52 others while destroying the fields and killing their cattle.

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The middle colonies. These include New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania , and Delaware

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A variety of people. New York had a great diversity of people.

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A house of Jewish worship. New Amsterdam built the first Synagogue in North America.

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A colony granted by a king or queen to an individual or group who had full governing rights. New York was a Proprietary Colony.

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Members of a Protestant group that had suffered persecution in England. Quakers believed firmly that all people should be treated as equals

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A safe place for people of every faith. Pennsylvania became a haven.

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Virginia was the first of the southern colonies to be settled. The others were Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia.

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A trustee is someone entrusted to look after a business. James Oglethorpe led the Trustees to made a haven in Georgia for people who had been in jail in England becuase they could not pay their taxes.