Across
- 2. government an electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns
- 4. the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
- 7. the action of traveling in an unfamiliar area to learn everything about it
- 9. a form of government with a monarch at the land
- 11. the highest legislature, consisting of the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons
- 13. a belief in the benefits of profitable trading: commercialism
- 14. the conquerors, and especially the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century
- 16. a person who journeys to a place that is sacred for religious reasons
Down
- 1. people that are sent or authorized to represent other people, in particular elected representatives sent to conference
- 3. a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area
- 5. rights that people supposedly have under natural law
- 6. liberty of those persons who are free from external restraint in the exercise of those rights which are considered to be outside the province of a government to control
- 8. government a political system in which legalized force is restricted through delegated and enumerated powers
- 10. sense good sense and sound judgement in practical matters
- 12. bill of rights an act signed into law in 1689 by William III and Mary II, who became co-rulers in England after the overthrow of King James II
- 15. a group of people who moved to live in a new country or area