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