Across
- 3. Governing agreement between three towns written in 1639 to protect individual rights (first written constitution)
- 6. Country that operated fur-trading outposts in areas northwest of the Appalachian Mountains
- 8. Government control by those who are most immediately affected and influenced
- 11. A community agreement for self- governance that establishes a particular societal structure
- 13. System of government based on the public election of lawmaking officials
- 15. Freedoms given to people as individuals not to be taken by government
- 16. Large farming operations primarily located in the southern colonies
- 20. Power motive for colonization to claim resources and land for a mother country
Down
- 1. First representative assembly established in the colony of Virginia
- 2. The king of England’s protection for individual rights and approved taxation
- 4. Self-governing agreement reached by the Pilgrims in 1620
- 5. The act of seeking and claiming new lands for economic, political, and social gain
- 7. Operation that captured and sold people from Africa to work on colonial plantations
- 9. Colonization for the purpose of wealth creation
- 10. Country that claimed most of the Atlantic coast of North America
- 12. First English colony settled in 1607 for the purpose of economic reasons.
- 14. Ability to choose and follow one’s spiritual beliefs
- 17. Country that sent explorers to claim land south and west of the Mississippi River for gold, ranching and farming. Some took advantage of the opportunity to establish missions
- 18. Settling a new area for the purpose of religious freedom, economic gain, or political power
- 19. Defines the time of American history prior to 1776 that saw the establishment of the 13 colonies, British mercantilism, the growth of representative government, and the establishment of religious freedom