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These terms all refer to political events that took place during this era. These political events helped shape the relationship between the Crown and Parliament, England and its colonies, and Native American nations and the colonies.

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These terms all refer to colonies that were established during the time. These colonies were established for different reasons, had differing relationships with nearby Native Americans and varied in loyalty to the English Crown.

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These terms are related to major regions and administrative unions that were established at the time. These regions were the center of where things such as the slave trade would happen and major events of the Glorious Revolution.

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These terms are all related to major wars that occurred during that time period. These include rebellions, civil wars, and raids conducted by Native Americans as vengeance. These wars would all permanently affect the progress of the colonies, directly or indirectly.

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These terms are names of important figures, who during this time period were responsible for a great many things. This included initiating wars that would permanently affect relations between Native Americans and the colonists, and actually establishing a colony, as Penn did.

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These terms are connected in that they are all related to the topic of slavery. They include the transportation of slaves, how they were acquired, and how they set them apart from European using the concept of race.

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The Navigation Act of 1651 compelled every merchant in every colony to ship goods directly to England using only English ships. This was intended by Parliament to bind the colonies more to England and prevent other European nations such as the Dutch from interfering in the colonies.

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In 1688, a group of bishops and Parliamentarians offered the English throne Dutch Prince William of Holland in order to overthrow of James II, who had various openly Catholic and pro-French policies. The coup was completed with little bloodshed and was considered glorious by English colonists as it united them in a Protestant empire that stood against Catholic tyranny and French power.

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Through negotiations in 1737, Native Delaware leaders agreed to sell Pennsylvania all of the land that a man can walk in a day and a half. Instead, John and Thomas Penn hired skilled runners to do the walk. They traveled from Wrightstown to the present day town of Jim Thorpe, measuring a tract of about 1,200 square miles. Much more than the Delaware intended to sell. This strained the relationship between the colony and the Delaware and caused many of them to move out of said land.

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In 1664, the Duke of York granted the area between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers to two English noblemen who split it into two colonies, East and West Jersey. William Penn was one of West Jersey's proprietors. Penn wanted a larger colony and was granted Pennsylvania. Penn was a Quaker and intended to create a colony of harmony.

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Between 1629 and 1640, Charles I's rule caused tension between the English Parliament and the king. The conflict increased even more when Parliament refused to supply the king with subsidies to suppress a rebellion in Scotland. By 1642, the tension led to war between Parliament and Charles. In 1649, Parliament won and Charles was executed.

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In response to the governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkley's inaction against hostile Native Americans, a group of frontier colonists in the spring of 1676 led by Nathaniel Bacon took arms to defend themselves from the Native American threat. Berkley, however, mobilized an army with the intention of crushing Bacon's forces. In the summer of 1676, Bacon went to Jamestown to confront Berkley and was arrested and forced to publically beg for forgiveness. Bacon later returned with army of followers, demanding that Berkley make him general of Virginia. Despite Berkley's resisting and challenging Bacon to a duel, he was forced to grant Bacon the title. After Bacon's death from typhus, the rebellion surrendered to Berkley and its leaders all executed.

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In 1715, Carolina's closest allies and trading partners, the Yamasee turned against them. When the governor sent two emissaries visit a Yamasee council after rumors of unrest. The Yamasee killed these emissaries and then every English trader they could kill. Charles Town survived by preserving their allegiance with the Cherokee, and by 1717, the war had mostly dried up and most Native American villages returned to terms with Carolina.

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In May of 1637, an armed contingent of English Puritans, referring to themselves as the "Sword of the Lord" attacked the Pequot Native American nation. In less than two months, the Puritans boasted about having driven them out of their country and killed at 1500 of them. This victory over them security and stability for the English colonies and gave the Mohegan, another Native American nation, great political and economic influence.

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Originally the Dutch colony of New Netherland, it was handed over to England in 1644 and renamed after the proprietor James, the duke of York. It was briefly reconquered by the Dutch in 1667. Class and ethnic issues in New York City contributed to the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689.

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Later divided into North and South Carolina and Georgia, the creation of this colony was part of Charle II's plot to strengthen English control on the Eastern Seaboard and pay off his debts. The Lords Proprietor of Carolina used incentives to attract colonists and Carolina quickly grew. In response to Virginian resistance, the Lords Proprietor founded North Carolina in 1691.

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After being exiled from Massachusetts, Roger Williams created the settlement of Providence in 1636. After others began to settle near Providence, the colony was granted a charter in 1644. In 1663, Charles II granted the colony a royal charter and established it as Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

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Connecticut would eventually grow from the settlements of Saybrook and New Haven. New Haven Colony had a religious origin, as its founders were trying a new form of Puritanism. Founded in 1638 by John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, and other Puritans in the New Haven region of Connecticut, it was officially organized in 1643 and absorbed into Connecticut in 1665.

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Named after Charles I's queen, Maryland was 12 million acres of land set aside in 1632 for a colony in America. Charles I granted it to his friend and political ally, Cecilius Calvert. In late 1633, both Protestants and Catholics left England and settled in Maryland in March 1634. In 1650, Puritans revolted and set up a government that prohibited Catholicism and Anglicanism. Governor William Stone put down the revolt in 1658. Two years after the Glorious Revolution, Maryland became a royal colony.

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Created by James II in 1686, the Dominion consolidated the New England colonies. Colonies strongly opposed it as they resented the loss of their individual provinces. The Dominion's governor made matters worse in 1687 by forcing colonists into military service. In 1688, the Dominion government was overthrown and the provinces were restored to their previous status.

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In 1675, three of Metacom's warriors killed John Sassamon, a Christian, Harvard-educated Wampanoag. Metacom, known to the English as King Phillip, was a local sachem in Plymouth. Those three warriors were executed, and then in the summer of 1675, Metacom and his followers continued to strike Plymouth towns. Until 1676, Metacom's forces were laying waste to English towns in present day Massachusetts but then the tide changed when the New England colonies began to use their Native American allies. In the august of 1676, Metacom was killed by Christian Native American.

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Sea journey from Africa to the West Indies in which slave ships transported millions of slaves to the Americas. It was one leg of the triangular slave trade. The trip would last from one to six months. The trip itself would be full of horrible conditions, with slaves being chained in small places, dysentery, and abuses such as whippings.

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Native Americans that were usually enslaved after being captured as prisoners of war. Europeans at the time considered it merciful, and profitable, to enslave them, rather than just kill them.

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Used at the time to divide both Whites and Blacks. In the 1660s, new laws made it legal to enslave anybody of African descent for life.

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All of the Caribbean islands that were controlled by Britain during this time. It got its name from Christopher Columbus, who had believed he had sailed to the Indies when he first discovered it.

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Popé was a Puebloan religious leader who was arrested in 1675 and whipped for "sorcery." In 1680, he led many Puebloan groups in rebellion against against the Spanish. It was the greatest act of Indigenous resistance in North America, leaving over 400 dead and forcing over 2000 Spaniards to leave. All traces of Spanish rule was eradicated in New Mexico.