Across
- 5. labor system that Southern planters depended on to grow crops, in which people had to work for their entire life with no pay and poor treatment.
- 7. institution created in 1636 by the Puritans.
- 8. this colony group was known as "The Breadbasket" because of crops they grew.
- 10. important good in shipbuilding, made from the dense forests of New England
- 12. Large farms that made up the Southern economy
- 14. This religious group moved to New England to escape religious persecution.
- 15. Had rocky soil, harsh winters, dense forests
- 16. the population of the Middle Colonies is described as _________.
Down
- 1. book important to the Puritans and the reason that Puritans encouraged women, men, and children to learn how to read
- 2. colony settled by William Penn and the Quakers
- 3. colony that was made up of both present day Massachusetts and present day Maine.
- 4. This religious group was known for being peaceful, being against slavery, and religious freedom.
- 6. The Southern economy relied on these crops
- 9. someone who agreed to work for free in exchange for money to cover their journey to America
- 11. first permanent British settlement in the New World
- 13. New York and New Jersey were originally settled by people from the ______________.
