Colonization

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

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