Across
- 2. a specific ban on trade placed by the government of a country
- 3. a type of government where there is one ruler or family
- 5. the act of traveling through unknown territories to discover something
- 7. a legal document which declared the colonies to be independent from England
- 10. first European to reach Central America and start European settlement in the “New World”
- 13. the state of being free and outside of government control
- 14. representatives, individuals who represent a group of people and their ideas
- 15. the rights and abilities people automatically have for existing (being human)
- 16. explorers sent from Spain to obtain more colonies for Spain
Down
- 1. a piece by Thomas Paine that brought up the idea of the colonies separating from
- 4. to revoke or remove a law or legal document
- 6. an economic system where countries increase their wealth and power from trading
- 8. legal (legislative) group in the United Kingdom
- 9. the act of colonies rebelling against their country
- 11. first English colony in North America in 1607
- 12. immigrants, people who left their country to settle down in another one