Unit 1

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Across
  1. 3. / was an early settler of North America known for being the first person to cultivate tobacco in Virginia and for marrying Pocahontas.
  2. 5. / belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
  3. 6. / English general and colonial administrator; founder of the colony of Georgia.
  4. 9. / located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies.
  5. 10. / English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia
  6. 11. / English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
  7. 13. / British America included the colonies of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Connecticut Colony, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and Province of New Hampshire.
  8. 16. / the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
  9. 18. / any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
  10. 19. / was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower.
  11. 21. / a settlement in the Colony of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
  12. 22. / The colonies developed prosperous economies based on the cultivation of cash crops, such as tobacco, indigo and rice.
  13. 23. / The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s.
  14. 24. / the lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature.
Down
  1. 1. / the father of Pocahontas and the ruler of the tribes that lived in the area where English colonists founded the Jamestown settlement.
  2. 2. / also known as the Thirteen British Colonies or the Thirteen American Colonies.
  3. 4. / a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the stated purpose of propagating the Christian religion.
  4. 7. / an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
  5. 8. / a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
  6. 12. / a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time.
  7. 14. trade / a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
  8. 15. / were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
  9. 17. / British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England.
  10. 20. / A Native American princess of the seventeenth century who befriended Captain John Smith of Virginia.