English Colonies Study Guide

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Across
  1. 1. built on an abandon Native American village (pilgrims arrived in an area where Native Americans were previously wiped out of small pox).
  2. 5. became Virginia's substitute for gold
  3. 9. other than national glory, a religious mission to dislodge catholic Spain, and unloading a surplus population, what was the other goal of the English in the new world.
  4. 11. the ability to read the ______ was central to Puritan beliefs.
  5. 13. Following the English civil war, most New Englanders sided with ________.
  6. 16. A ______ of new englanders owned their own land
  7. 17. Roger ______, a young minister who arrived in Massachusetts in 1631 (was promptly banished in 1636)
  8. 19. relied on their tobacco based economy.
  9. 20. the lost colony. Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to colonize this island, but returned to England a year later.
Down
  1. 2. Anne ______ was seen as a threat because of her gender and religious following. She was banished in 1637 following a civil court trial.
  2. 3. primary labor force for Chesapeake work (indentured).
  3. 4. In 1662 Hartford and New Haven received a royal charter that united them as the colony known as _______.
  4. 6. primary labor force for New England work.
  5. 7. the second Chesapeake colony
  6. 8. religion primarily practiced in New England.
  7. 10. The local elite used the house of _______ to control the colonies development (in Virginia).
  8. 12. Towns _____ New Englanders for offenses such as criticizing the church or government or complaining about the colony in letters home to England
  9. 14. the first permanent English settlement in the area that would become the U.S. (1607, sponsored by the Virginia Company).
  10. 15. By 1642 about 21000 Puritans had immigrated to Massachusetts in a process known as the Great ______.
  11. 18. awarded 50 acres of land to any colonist who paid for his own or another's passage to the new world (______ system).