Chapter 20 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. and export, bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale.
  2. 5. (goods or services) to another country for sale.
  3. 7. exchange, The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic
  4. 8. the first English colony to survive into a lasting settlement in what later became the United States.
  5. 13. a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute
  6. 14. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country,
  7. 15. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
  8. 18. Columbus, An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492.
  9. 19. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
  10. 22. trade, the trade in the 18th and 19th centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves,
  11. 23. slave trade, At least 10 million Africans were enslaved and transported to Europe
Down
  1. 1. a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church
  2. 3. stock company, a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
  3. 4. Pizarro, Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima
  4. 6. a person who attacks and robs ships at sea.
  5. 9. belief in the benefits of profitable trading
  6. 10. Netherland, a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64
  7. 11. passage, the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
  8. 12. Cortes, Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico conquistador, a conqueror especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  9. 16. Last independent Incan emperor who defeated his half-brother Huáscar mestizo, a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.
  10. 17. Wampanoag leader who waged King Philip's War (1675-1676)
  11. 20. Indian War, the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60
  12. 21. balance of trade, The value of a nation's exports in excess of the value of its imports.