Unit 2 Vocabulary: New Identities

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Across
  1. 2. First successful English colony established in Virginia
  2. 10. A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified
  3. 14. the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620
  4. 15. The economic system where people put money (capital) into a business in order to make a profit
  5. 16. the first inhabitants of an area and their descendants
  6. 17. A religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England
  7. 18. Time period extending from the 15th to 18th century where Europeans sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and introduced new trade routes
  8. 19. Colony established by English protestants in Massachusetts in 1620
  9. 22. The first English attempt of settling a permanent colony in the Americas in North Carolina that resulted in the entire colony disappearing with little traces explaining their fate
  10. 24. The way someone or something is remembered
  11. 26. first English-American born on American soil
  12. 28. Punishment or harassment usually of a severe nature on the basis of race, religion, or political opinion in one's country of origin
  13. 29. The widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, technology, disease, and ideas
  14. 30. a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands based in southeastern Massachusetts
  15. 31. The House of Burgesses was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia
  16. 32. English explore and settler sent by Queen Elizabeth I who landed in Roanoke
Down
  1. 1. A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693
  2. 3. Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China
  3. 4. The first governing document written by men aboard the Mayflower of Plymouth Colony
  4. 5. Was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621.
  5. 6. a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox c. 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles
  6. 7. Colony established by English Puritans
  7. 8. Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain. Gold, silver, jewels, timber, food, spices, animals, crops
  8. 9. a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
  9. 11. a Native American people who lived in present day Outer Banks, North Carolina
  10. 12. a person who explores an unfamiliar area, an adventurer
  11. 13. a Christian who belongs to the branch of the Christian church which separated from the Catholic church in the sixteenth century
  12. 20. an English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia
  13. 21. The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
  14. 23. a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations
  15. 25. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. Example: The group of English protestants leaving English to establish a safer colony
  16. 27. A colony governed by England, and then Great Britain