Across
- 5. Brutal passage of enslaved people accross the Atlantic
- 6. The first elected assembly in the New World, established in 1619
- 8. staple crop produced in the middle colonies
- 9. ruled directly by a monarch
- 10. Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
- 11. Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.
- 14. introduced tobacco to Jamestowncolony
- 15. A company made up of a group of shareholders
- 17. A Puritan compromise that allowed the unconverted children of Puritans who had fallen away from the church to become halfway members of the church
Down
- 1. The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was an early step toward written frameworks of government in what is now the United States.
- 2. controversial minister of the Great Awakening, preached outside
- 3. Colonies under the authority of individuals granted charters of ownership by the king.
- 4. The Virginia Company's system in which settlers and the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land
- 7. caused the move away from indentured servants to African slaves
- 12. John Winthrop's name for the Massachusetts colony
- 13. Colony of Virginia named after her
- 16. Slave uprising in South Carolina in 1739