Southern Colonies
Across
- 4. Baltimore The founder of the Maryland Colony
- 6. One of the first English religious groups to oppose slavery
- 8. Colony The colony founded by James Oglethorpe for poor people to settle instead of going to debtors' prison in England
- 9. A Quaker abolitionist
- 11. A person who wants to end slavery
- 13. The English settlement, once led by John Smith, that would become the royal Virginia Colony
- 14. An early example of self-government in the English colonies that began in Jamestown/the Virginia Colony (burgesses were elected members of the legislature); heavily influenced the U.S. Constitution
- 16. The English colony founded by Lord Baltimore for Catholics to settle
- 19. A road into the backcountry used by Native Americans and English settlers alike
- 20. The wilderness in the western area between the English colonies and the Appalachian Mountains
- 21. The person who supervised enslaved people on a southern plantation
Down
- 1. The large, elaborate house on a southern estate where the owner lived
- 2. A Nigerian abolitionist who was enslaved as a child, bought his freedom as an adult, and wrote a book about his life
- 3. The war that broke out between Carolinians and Native Americans after 50 years of peace because the English started moving into Native American hunting grounds, enslaving them, and killing them for resources; ended when the Native Americans fled and joined the Iroquois
- 5. The Southern Colony that included Jamestown; the first permanent English colony; the largest English colony in the New World; home of the House of Burgesses
- 7. The cabins on a southern estate where the enslaved people lived
- 10. The Southern Colony that disappeared after two failed settlement attempts
- 12. A period of renewed focus on religious faith that challenged the morality of slavery
- 15. Boone The explorer who found the Cumberland Gap
- 17. The pass through the Appalachian Mountains between Kentucky and Tennessee
- 18. The set of Maryland laws that allowed religious freedom to Christians