The Colonial Era

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Across
  1. 4. Founded PA for Quakers
  2. 6. A colony established by a group of settlers who were given a formal document allowing them to settle on the land
  3. 7. War that Britain and France fought due to fur trapping conflicts; Seven Years’ War
  4. 8. Colonial region that was mainly settled on for trade and profit; staple farming
  5. 11. Explorer who discovered the New World and claimed it for Spain
  6. 14. A colony in which the English monarch provided land to proprietors in exchange for yearly payment
  7. 15. A system of trading in which Africans were kidnapped from their homes, deported to America, and sold as slaves
  8. 16. First barrier colonists faced against westward expansion
  9. 19. Economic competition with little government control
  10. 21. A colony that was under the direct control of the British crown
  11. 25. Publisher who contributed to freedom of the press
  12. 26. Proclamation issued by King George III that banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains (name of document, then year)
  13. 27. Document written in 1215 that established due process of law and trial by jury
  14. 28. Political cartoon drawn by Benjamin Franklin that urged the US colonies to unite
Down
  1. 1. Economic system in which the mother country gets rich at the expense of her colonies by restricting trade
  2. 2. Leader of the First Great Awakening
  3. 3. First permanent English settlement in colonial America
  4. 5. Protected the basic civil rights of individuals; model for the US Bill of Rights
  5. 9. Founded as a debtor colony and a buffer zone between the colonies and Spanish Florida
  6. 10. A type of govt in which the people elect representatives to make the laws for them
  7. 12. Wrote the Fundamental Orders of CT in 1639; first written constitution in colonial America
  8. 13. First representative form of government in the colonies
  9. 17. Type of farming in the New England Colonies
  10. 18. Ended the French and Indian War (name of document, then year)
  11. 20. Document written by Pilgrims/Puritans aboard the Mayflower, pledging to unite into a civil body politic
  12. 22. Colony that provided a religious refuge for Catholic people
  13. 23. Founded RI for the purpose of religious freedom
  14. 24. The colonial region that relied on plantation farming, cash crops, and slavery