Chapter 4: Life in the American Colonies

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Across
  1. 4. These colonies had warm weather year round, great farming conditions, and relied on enslaved labor.
  2. 6. The ocean that the Slave Trade took place on.
  3. 8. This epidemic had a great effect on colonial Americans.
  4. 10. The 1688 revolution that featured a peaceful transfer of power and checked royal power.
  5. 12. The economic practice/theory that England used to exploit the raw materials of the Americans.
  6. 13. Africans suffered from this type of death while still physically living.
  7. 15. The long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.
  8. 17. The governing body of England.
  9. 19. A type of government when people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government.
  10. 21. These colonies had harsh winters and poor soil for farming.
  11. 22. In the simplest terms, the way people spend and make money.
Down
  1. 1. These colonies had all four seasons, good ports, and farming, too.
  2. 2. Make laws.
  3. 3. _______ Carta, the document signed by King John in 1215 that contained the concept of "protected rights."
  4. 5. The shape of the trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
  5. 7. Rules that controlled the behavior and punishment of enslaved people.
  6. 9. This "Awakening" gave more religious freedom to American colonists.
  7. 11. The term given to the trip between Africa and the Americas for enslaved people.
  8. 13. Enslaved people worked for 48 hours straight to harvest this crop.
  9. 14. The average amount of square feet of space that Africans had aboard the slave ships.
  10. 15. This was very unique to the American colonies.
  11. 16. The study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
  12. 18. This percent of Africans in the Atlantic Slave Trade arrived in the United States.
  13. 20. Pre-Civil War Americans called this the "peculiar institution."