US History: PreColonial America

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Across
  1. 5. This is an economic system where a mother country has colonies used to make money and gain raw materials?
  2. 9. What did many Europeans organize into in so that they could spread the risk of sailing across the Atlantic among many people?
  3. 11. After the glorious revolution, England's policy was to allow the colonies to have self-rule. This is called...
  4. 12. What did England use to, "legally," take land that belonged to Native Americans?
  5. 14. The first permanent colony in America was...
  6. 15. The religious revival in the colonies where Protestants began to preach across America was called the....
  7. 18. Which geographic feature do historians consider to have been a barrier to westward expansion in America?
  8. 21. A main goal of mercantilism is to have a favorable...
  9. 22. Women in the colonies formed these.
  10. 24. The House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact are examples of American...
Down
  1. 1. A key influence on the American Revolution was the thinkers you made a play about last year called the philosophes of the ....
  2. 2. Jamestown was burned to the ground, and almost destroyed by this event.
  3. 3. When I say John Peter Zenger; you should say...
  4. 4. Which geographical feature most influenced the 13 colonies?
  5. 6. These people worked for 4-7 years as payment for their passage to America.
  6. 7. An early group of separatists that settled in Massachusetts were the....
  7. 8. The advantage of rivers and streams is that it makes for easier navigation and...
  8. 10. What cash crop saved Jamestown?
  9. 13. In America we have a ________________________________ democracy where we vote for individuals that make policy decisions.
  10. 16. The document that the Pilgrims signed that established self government for white, male, adults was...
  11. 17. Under mercantilism colonies provide more _________ materials than manufactured goods.
  12. 19. Where were most slaves taken from to work on colonial plantations in the South?
  13. 20. The Lost Colony of America is called...
  14. 23. Under the system of mercantilism colonies were forced to trade with the _____________________________ country.