United States History Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A colony given by a king to an individual or group
  2. 4. Segment of the colonies that reflected cultural diversity; included New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
  3. 5. Colonies of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia
  4. 8. a legally binding relationship
  5. 9. land grants of fifty-acre tracts to those who paid for their passage to America or fulfilled an indenture
  6. 10. Colony over which the king had direct control
  7. 13. A colony that was governed by a charter granted to a trade company by the king
  8. 14. A group of dissenters who did not believe that the Anglican Church could be purified; chose to separate themselves from the church and held their own worship services.
  9. 15. Name for the winter of 1609-10 in Jamestown.
Down
  1. 1. Ship that carried the Pilgrims to the New World where they landed at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
  2. 3. companies whose investors shared profits; provided a means whereby enterprises could obtain large monetary resources and remain free from the government control that accompanied government sponsored projects
  3. 6. a work contract for a specified period, usually between four and seven years
  4. 7. the legislative government of colonial Virginia; the first self-governing assembly in America
  5. 11. Separatists who left Europe and went to the New World, establishing the Plymouth colony.
  6. 12. Members of the Anglican Church who hoped to purify the church of various Roman Catholic practices and ceremonies.