History

1. Company funded and run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits & losses
5. form of trade where needed goods are exchanged between people; advantageous to both parties
13. traditions passed from generation to generation by word of mouth - elders to young people, etc.
15. crop that is grown for sale, not individual use.
18. 1494 treaty in which Portugal and Spain divided the “non-Christian” world declared by Pope Alexander; Portugal gets the EAST of the Line of Demarcation & Spain gets the WEST.
20. person who agrees to work for another person for a specified time in return for transportation and food & shelter
22. people or groups who move their homes, villages, communities regularly in search for food

2. The transatlantic trade of crops, technology & culture between the Americas, Europe Africa and Asia that began in 1492 with Columbus’ first voyage to the Americas.
3. Person who favored the purification of England’s Anglican Church
4. first representative legislature in the colonies; est. in Virginia 1619
6. Colony with a governor appointed by the king
7. & economy as long as such neglect served British economic interests
8. Great Britain’s policy in the early 1700’s of NOT interfering in the American
9. Colony granted by the king or queen to an individual or group who have full governing rights
10. Agreement in which settlers of Plymouth Colony agreed to obey their government’s laws
11. Spanish conqueror of the Americas
12. large farms on which crops are raised mainly for sale.
14. Part of the Triangular Trade in which Africans were forcibly taken from Africa to slavery in the Americas
16. One of the group of English Separatists who est. Plymouth Colony in 1620
17. form of “inheritance” where important jobs and roles or functions in a community are passed along through the mother
19. Trade between the Americas, Europe & Africa - England to africa(rum, iron, guns), from Africa to West Indies (slaves, gold), from West Indies
21. Colonies (sugar, molasses, slaves)