Early American History Unit Review

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Across
  1. 3. the establishment of settlements by countries in new territories
  2. 4. a holiday dedicated to expressing gratitude, first celebrated by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans
  3. 6. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
  4. 7. the first people to live in North America before European settlers arrived
  5. 9. the first European to explore parts of North America since the time of the Vikings, starting the path for English settlers
  6. 10. the wealthy land-owners who held power and influence in the South
  7. 11. craftsmen who work with iron
  8. 12. Puritan village that held witch trials, in which 20 people were found guilty and executed
  9. 14. goods brought into a region
  10. 17. large animal in the Great Plains hunted by Native Americans
  11. 20. groups of Native Americans with their own customs, living in different regions like the Arctic, Great Plain, Southwest, Northwest, and Northeast
  12. 24. a wooden structure used in Puritan communities to hold a person's head and hands and publicly shame them
  13. 25. capturing animals (like beaver, for example) to sell their fur
  14. 29. the exchange of goods between different groups
  15. 32. daughter of the Powhatan Chief who married an Englishman and traveled to England
  16. 34. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
  17. 35. Scandinavian sailors who explored parts of North America around the year 1000, about 500 years before the Age of Exploration
  18. 36. the type of farming done in New England, which mainly sustained one's family
  19. 37. Spanish conquerors, such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who conquered indigenous people of South and Central America
  20. 39. the practice of farming and growing crops
  21. 40. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
Down
  1. 1. the brutal journey across the ocean marked with overcrowding, filth, disease, and death for enslaved Africans
  2. 2. the number of British colonies established in America by the mid 1700's
  3. 5. Italian explorer who reached the West Indies when he sailed west in search of a new trade route
  4. 8. an early English settlement established in 1585 whose inhabitants mysteriously disappeared, also known as the Lost Colony
  5. 13. term used to describe a region with abundant grain crops like wheat; applied to the Middle Colonies
  6. 15. a public sale where plantation owners purchased slaves
  7. 16. the first successful, permanent English Colony in America, founded in 1607 in Virginia
  8. 18. the type of farming done in the Middle Colonies, which produced enough to sell for a profit
  9. 19. people who worked in exchange for passage to the colonies, earning freedom after a number of years
  10. 21. a document signed aboard a ship, establishing a self-governing system for the passengers' new settlement
  11. 22. English Separatists who sought religious freedom in the New World
  12. 23. his expedition was the first to circumnavigate the world in 1522
  13. 24. the largest uprising of slaves South Carolina has seen, resulting in multiple deaths of colonists and fugitive slaves
  14. 26. settlement established in 1620 by the Mayflower's passengers
  15. 27. a disease brought to America by the Europeans; destroyed the Native American population who had no immunity against it
  16. 28. large farms found in the South where cash crops were grown with slave labor
  17. 30. major cash crop of the South first introduced by John Rolfe; boosted the economy of Jamestown in its critical early years
  18. 31. a three-stage system for trading goods and slaves from Europe, to Africa, to the New World, and back
  19. 33. goods sent out from a region
  20. 38. people who are forced to work; includes the Africans who were captured, bought, and sold in the New World