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4. form of “inheritance” where important jobs and roles or functions in a community are passed along through the mother
5. large farms on which crops are raised mainly for sale.
7. traditions passed from generation to generation by word of mouth - elders to young people, etc.
9. crop that is grown for sale, not individual use.
10. Trade between the Americas, Europe & Africa - England to africa(rum, iron, guns), from Africa to West Indies (slaves, gold), from West Indies
11. Company funded and run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits & losses
15. Colonies (sugar, molasses, slaves)
16. 1494 treaty in which Portugal and Spain divided the “non-Christian” world declared by Pope Alexander; Portugal gets the EAST of the Line of Demarcation & Spain gets the WEST.
17. person who agrees to work for another person for a specified time in return for transportation and food & shelter
18. Spanish conqueror of the Americas
21. Agreement in which settlers of Plymouth Colony agreed to obey their government’s laws
22. One of the group of English Separatists who est. Plymouth Colony in 1620

1. Great Britain’s policy in the early 1700’s of NOT interfering in the American
2. Colony granted by the king or queen to an individual or group who have full governing rights
3. form of trade where needed goods are exchanged between people; advantageous to both parties
6. first representative legislature in the colonies; est. in Virginia 1619
8. Colony with a governor appointed by the king
12. The transatlantic trade of crops, technology & culture between the Americas, Europe Africa and Asia that began in 1492 with Columbus’ first voyage to the Americas.
13. Person who favored the purification of England’s Anglican Church
14. Part of the Triangular Trade in which Africans were forcibly taken from Africa to slavery in the Americas
19. people or groups who move their homes, villages, communities regularly in search for food
20. politics & economy as long as such neglect served British economic interests