Unit 2 Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. A crop sold for money at market
  2. 4. Trade products brought into a country
  3. 5. The theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations
  4. 8. The highest social class in the English colonies
  5. 11. a person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony
  6. 15. a person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents
  7. 16. a town in the Spanish colonies
  8. 19. a colony under direct control of the English crown
  9. 20. a Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain
  10. 24. a waterway through or around North America
  11. 25. A group of people who have the power to make laws
  12. 30. A person who cannot pay money he or she owes
  13. 32. The act of punishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person’s reputation
  14. 33. the mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs
  15. 34. a religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion into a new area
  16. 35. an English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s
  17. 37. a list of key individual rights and freedoms
  18. 39. an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment
  19. 40. A combination of English and West African languages spoken by African Americns in South Carolina and Georgia
  20. 42. in Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
  21. 43. a meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters
  22. 44. an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
  23. 45. The belief that one race is superior to another
  24. 46. The movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason
  25. 47. a 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony’s government
Down
  1. 2. a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them
  2. 3. a representative to the colonial Virginia government
  3. 6. In 1688, the movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens
  4. 7. A nickname for New Englanders
  5. 9. a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  6. 10. Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights
  7. 12. A plant used to make a valuable blue dye
  8. 13. a fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies
  9. 14. a French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlements as a fur trader
  10. 17. German-speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania
  11. 18. A series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies
  12. 21. A trade product sent to markets outside a country
  13. 22. The first settlers on the site of the city were several Quaker families who came in the 18th century.
  14. 23. a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
  15. 26. A 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
  16. 27. In the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some tradespeople
  17. 28. A person who learns a trade or craft from a master
  18. 29. A 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens
  19. 31. The colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies
  20. 34. a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony
  21. 36. the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs
  22. 38. A school run by women, usually in their own homes
  23. 40. A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s, also known as the First Great Awakening
  24. 41. the elected representative assembly of the Massachusetts Bay Colony