New England colonies - economy centered on industry, freedom of religion, ship building, and sea trade., Southern colonies - centered on large plantations, growing cash crops, and slavery, Middle colonies - economy centered on grain ("breadbasket"), religious diversity, and tolerance, Mayflower Compact - This agreement helped to establish the practice of self-government and majority rule for the Pilgrims., Indentured servants - They agreed to work without pay for a landlord for a set number of years if the landlord paid for their passage to America., mercantilism - colonies should benefit mother country, Roanoke - Sir Walter Raleigh established England’s first American colony but it failed, Jamestown - first permanent, successful, English settlement in North America?, Georgia - buffer zone between Spanish Florida and the British colonies, refuge for debtors and other poor people in Britain, Navigation Acts - required the colonies to use English ships and English ports, or pay higher tax, King Phillip's War - Native Americans against the New England colonies., Triangular Trade - The complex system of trans-Atlantic exchange of slaves, rum, sugar, and molasses is known as,

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