Early Colonial Vocabulary

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  1. 4. This was the month in which the men aboard the Mayflower signed the Mayflower Compact.
  2. 5. This was the number of original colonies were in America
  3. 6. This was mined in the Middle Colonies
  4. 7. This was a major part of the economy of colonial New England.
  5. 8. aka Native American.
  6. 9. You cannot settle a new colony without one.
  7. 10. This is what the Middle Colonies were known as because of significant amounts of cereal grains grown in the region.
  8. 12. The system by which a nation or state is run.
  9. 14. This was the first colony settled by the English. It was called Jamestown.
  10. 15. England established many of these all over the world to bring wealth and power to their nation
  11. 16. This was the economic theory that countries adopted to justify colonizing other lands.
Down
  1. 1. A group of Christians who wanted to reform the Church of England.
  2. 2. These were common throughout the Southern Colonies and were also found in the Middle Colonies but not in the New England Colonies because of the climate and soil.
  3. 3. Needing no outside help to in satisfying one's basic needs.
  4. 6. Many of England's poor signed up to become one of these. They would work for years without pay but when their service was done they got their "freedom dues" which often consisted of a plot of land and food.
  5. 11. This is how how I described the soil in New England
  6. 13. A group of Christians who wanted to separate from the Church of England.
  7. 17. Examples of these would be cotton, sugarcane, tobacco...