1st 6 Weeks-Colonization

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Across
  1. 6. Colony started for religious freedom for Roman Catholics
  2. 8. The 1st written constitution in the colonies
  3. 9. 1st representative assembly in the colonies
  4. 14. The 1st permanent English settlement (1607)
  5. 17. Colonial movement in the 1730’s & 1740’s that changed the Protestant faith by proclaiming salvation for the common man, encouraged equality
  6. 21. Created in 1689, limited the king’s power, calls for limits, gives Parliament freedom of speech & free elections
  7. 22. Colony founded by John Mason for the English & Scots-Irish settlers who wanted to escape from the harsh economic and religious rules of the Puritans
  8. 24. Rich soil, warmer climate, year-round growing season, plantation system, rice, tobacco, indigo, indentured servants and enslaved people, agriculture economy
  9. 25. Colony founded for English debtors and convicts
  10. 26. Group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  11. 27. Colony settled by the Dutch and Swedish, first explored by Sir Henry Hudson
  12. 28. Mistreatment or punishment of a group because of their beliefs
Down
  1. 1. Founder of the Connecticut colony
  2. 2. Colonial region with rich solid, deep rivers, mild winters, known as “Bread Basket”, Quakers in Pennsylvania
  3. 3. Colonial region with rocky solid, short growing season, cold winters, shipbuilding, logging, fishing, mostly puritan
  4. 4. The reason the French established colonies in the New World
  5. 5. Founder of the Pennsylvania colony
  6. 7. Founder of the Georgia colony
  7. 10. The idea that Britain allowed the colonies to govern themselves due to the great distance between the 2 continents
  8. 11. Enlightenment thinker who believed that government exists to serve people and cannot take their natural rights (life, liberty, property) away
  9. 12. Colony founded by the Pilgrims, Puritans who wanted to purify and reform the Anglican Church with strict beliefs
  10. 13. Founder of the Rhode Island colony
  11. 15. The 1st attempt at self-government (1620)
  12. 16. Colonial religious group who did not believe in the institution of slavery
  13. 18. The “Great Charter” created in 1215, it guaranteed rights and liberties to the English people that could not be canceled by later laws
  14. 19. Colony previously known as New Amsterdam, originally owned by the Dutch, then taken by the English without firing a shot
  15. 20. Enlightenment thinker who promoted the separation of powers/ checks and balances
  16. 23. Woman banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for leading Bible studies