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