Across
- 5. English document in 1215 that gave limited the King's power
- 7. New way of thinking in the 1600s and 1700s that inspired our independence.
- 15. document from 1688 that inspired the American Bill of Rights
- 17. The balance of power in different branches of government.
- 20. In modern times this word means publishing statements that damage a person's reputation when you know it is untrue. In colonial times it didn't matter if it was true or not.
- 23. A law that provided religious freedom for all christians. As in many colonies, this freedom did not extend to Jews.
- 24. the king gave land to one or more people in return for a yearly payment. Proprietaries were able to divide the land and rent to others.
- 26. Colonies that relied on slave labor to grow their cash crops of tobacco and cotton.
- 30. former indentured servant organized angry men and women on the frontier and raided Native American villages, burned Jamestown. Led to an increase in slavery over indentured servitude.
- 32. Colonies known as the Breadbasket developed roads to trade with other colonies.
- 33. Colonial printer who inspired Freedom of the Press.
Down
- 1. Colony which began as a refuge for debtors in England.
- 2. Protestant reformers who don't believe in fighting, believe all people are equal and founded Pennsylvania.
- 3. People who were brought to the New World to work for a master but were freed after the end of their term.
- 4. French writer whose ideas of separation of powers became the framework of our Constitution.
- 6. Northern colonies whose main form of income was ship building.
- 8. American Enlightenment thinker & author of the Declaration of Independence.
- 9. Quaker colony founded by William Penn
- 10. Agreement by the Pilgrims that gave the people of Plymouth power
- 11. The first representative government of Jamestown
- 12. the idea that with right comes responsibilities. An agreement between a government and the people.
- 13. The first permanent English colony. It began in 1607.
- 14. Rights, life, liberty and property, that all people are born with.
- 16. The Supreme law of the land, the document influenced by the Enlightenment Movement that is the framework for our government.
- 18. colony under the direct control of the English King or Queen
- 19. Metacom chief of the Wampanoag natives led attacks on villages in New England to drive settlers out. Result was natives were sold into slavery and driven from the land.
- 21. French political philosopher who believed in the Social Contract between a ruler and the people.
- 22. Early English Enlightenment thinker and writer who believed in Natural Rights.
- 25. All voters in the colonies had to be white, male, over 21 and own this.
- 27. Jamestown's cash crop. Introduced by John Rolf.
- 28. These flourished in America in the mid 1700s to the point they felt they could govern themselves.
- 29. French philosopher who believed strongly in freedom of religion and speech.
- 31. Wrote Common Sense in 1776 which convinced Americans to declare Independence