Across
- 1. Labor system in which a person agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for transportation, room and board, or other benefits.
- 4. First permanent English settlement in North America, established in Virginia in 1607.
- 5. Virginia colonist who helped make the colony economically successful by developing a profitable strain of tobacco.
- 6. New England colony founded by Puritans in 1630 that developed a society heavily influenced by religion.
- 9. Exchange The widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, people, and goods between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia following European contact.
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- 2. Virginia colonist who led a 1676 rebellion against Governor William Berkeley, revealing tensions between frontier settlers, elites, and the colonial government.
- 3. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec Empire with the help of Indigenous allies and other advantages.
- 7. A form of slavery in which enslaved people were legally treated as property and their status was generally inherited by their children.
- 8. English Protestants who sought to reform the Church of England and established Massachusetts Bay as a religiously oriented colony.