European Colonization of America

1. Spanish colonial labor system that compelled Indigenous people to work for colonists under a grant of authority.
5. Indigenous people who aided the English settlers at Plymouth during their early years.
6. Economic policy that sought to increase a nation’s wealth by controlling trade and accumulating resources.
8. power whose North American empire relied heavily on the fur trade and alliances with Indigenous peoples.
10. Broad language family that includes many Indigenous nations of the Eastern Woodlands.
13. System that granted settlers land for paying the passage of laborers to Virginia.
15. English settlement founded in Virginia in 1607; its early survival depended on tobacco cultivation.
17. English tobacco colony whose labor and land policies helped shape the Chesapeake region.
18. Exchange of crops, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492.

2. Group of Indigenous nations that formed a powerful political alliance in the Northeast.
3. Dutch landholding arrangement that gave an individual a large estate and authority in New Netherland.
4. Dutch settlement that became New York after England took control in 1664.
7. European power that established colonies in the Americas to claim territory, extract wealth, and spread Catholicism.
9. English colony founded on Roanoke Island that disappeared before its fate could be determined.
11. company Business in which investors pooled resources and shared risks and profits from colonial ventures.
12. English colonies along the Atlantic coast that later formed the core of the United States.
14. English colony founded in 1620 by settlers seeking religious self-government.
16. English company that financed the settlement of Jamestown.