Early American History Unit Review (2)

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Across
  1. 3. the largest uprising of slaves South Carolina has seen, resulting in multiple deaths of colonists and fugitive slaves
  2. 4. term used to describe a region with abundant grain crops like wheat; applied to the Middle Colonies
  3. 6. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
  4. 7. English Separatists who sought religious freedom in the New World
  5. 11. the first successful, permanent English Colony in America, founded in 1607 in Virginia
  6. 12. an early English settlement established in 1585 whose inhabitants mysteriously disappeared, also known as the Lost Colony
  7. 14. the exchange of goods between different groups
  8. 15. large animal in the Great Plains hunted by Native Americans
  9. 16. Scandinavian sailors who explored parts of North America around the year 1000, about 500 years before the Age of Exploration
  10. 20. craftsmen who work with iron
  11. 23. groups of Native Americans with their own customs, living in different regions like the Arctic, Great Plain, Southwest, Northwest, and Northeast
  12. 24. a public sale where plantation owners purchased slaves
  13. 28. Italian explorer who reached the West Indies when he sailed west in search of a new trade route
  14. 29. people who are forced to work; includes the Africans who were captured, bought, and sold in the New World
  15. 32. large farms found in the South where cash crops were grown with slave labor
  16. 34. the type of farming done in the Middle Colonies, which produced enough to sell for a profit
  17. 35. a holiday dedicated to expressing gratitude, first celebrated by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans
  18. 36. a disease brought to America by the Europeans; destroyed the Native American population who had no immunity against it
  19. 37. settlement established in 1620 by the Mayflower's passengers
  20. 38. Spanish conquerors, such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who conquered indigenous people of South and Central America
  21. 39. the type of farming done in New England, which mainly sustained one's family
  22. 40. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
Down
  1. 1. goods brought into a region
  2. 2. the number of British colonies established in America by the mid 1700's
  3. 3. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
  4. 5. daughter of the Powhatan Chief who married an Englishman and traveled to England
  5. 8. people who worked in exchange for passage to the colonies, earning freedom after a number of years
  6. 9. the wealthy land-owners who held power and influence in the South
  7. 10. the establishment of settlements by foreign powers in new territories
  8. 13. the first European to explore parts of North America since the time of the Vikings, starting the path for English settlers
  9. 17. the first people to live in North America before European settlers arrived
  10. 18. a wooden structure used in Puritan communities to hold a person's head and hands and publicly shame them
  11. 19. the brutal journey across the ocean marked with overcrowding, filth, disease, and death for enslaved Africans
  12. 21. a document signed by the ship's passengers establishing a self-governing system for their new settlement
  13. 22. location of the historical witch trials in the Puritan society, in which 20 people were found guilty and executed
  14. 25. major cash crop of the South first introduced by John Rolfe; boosted the economy of Jamestown in its critical early years
  15. 26. capturing animals (like beaver, for example) to sell their fur
  16. 27. his expedition was the first to circumnavigate the world in 1522
  17. 30. goods sent out from a region
  18. 31. a three-stage system for trading goods and slaves from Europe, to Africa, to the New World, and back
  19. 33. the practice of farming and growing crops