Across
- 2. Italian explorer sailing for Spain and looking for a new route to Asia and the Indies, but lands in the Bahamas, thus discovering a “new world.”
- 4. Powerful speaker and English Preacher during the First Great Awakening encouraging Christian beliefs throughout the colonies.
- 7. Law passed by England to encourage settlement in the new world by offering settlers fifty acres of land for every individual they brought to the new world.
- 9. System of trade between the New World, Europe, and Africa in which resources and rum were traded for manufactured goods and slaves.
- 10. the use of people against their will for the purpose of doing labor.
- 11. Governing document for the Plymouth colony.
Down
- 1. a harsh method of slavery imposed by the Spanish on the Natives of the New World
- 2. the exchange of goods, ideas, plants, and diseases between the New World and the Old World.
- 3. Laws passed by England to uphold the economic policy of mercantilism.
- 5. The first permanent English colony founded in Virginia, 1607.
- 6. Economic system based on a favorable balance of trade between the mother country and its colonies in order to maintain gold and silver within the empire.
- 8. Religious group in New England desiring to purify the Anglican Church of its Catholic traditions.