13 Colonies Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. These people called, _________________________, agree to work for a number of years in exchange for transportation, food, clothing and shelter to a new country.
  2. 3. The Jamestown colony produced tobacco, which became their most valuable __________________________ for selling and trading to the other colonies and Europe.
  3. 6. In 1607, England’s King James I granted a ___________________ to a group of merchants to establish a colony called Virginia in North America.
  4. 9. If the King of England controlled a colony it was called a _________________________.
  5. 10. The ______________________ came over on the Mayflower to seek religious freedom.
  6. 11. 1619 Virginia’s Law making body, the House of Burgesses, was the first ____________________________ in the Americas where people vote to elect people to make laws for them.
  7. 12. The New England colonies were governed by ________________________________ or an assembly of townspeople that decides local issues.
Down
  1. 1. Some colonies were NOT owned by the royal family, instead they were owned by people who were given grants of land called a ________________ .
  2. 4. A ____________ is someone who moves to a new place to permentanly live there.
  3. 5. A ____________________ was a large agricultural estate in the American South where crops were grown for profit using labor.
  4. 7. People who lives in or helps establish a colony are called ___________________________.
  5. 8. A ____________________ was a settlement or territory created and controlled by a country in a different part of the world.