The Colonial Era

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  1. 2. Wrote the Fundamental Orders of CT in 1639; first written constitution in colonial America
  2. 3. Publisher who contributed to freedom of the press
  3. 4. Founded PA for Quakers
  4. 5. Colony that provided a religious refuge for Catholic people
  5. 7. War that Britain and France fought due to fur trapping conflicts; Seven Years’ War
  6. 9. First barrier colonists faced against westward expansion
  7. 14. A type of govt in which the people elect representatives to make the laws for them
  8. 17. Ended the French and Indian War (name of document, then year)
  9. 21. First representative form of government in the colonies
  10. 22. Document written in 1215 that established due process of law and trial by jury
  11. 23. First permanent English settlement in colonial America
  12. 25. A colony established by a group of settlers who were given a formal document allowing them to settle on the land
  13. 26. Type of farming in the New England Colonies
  14. 27. Colonial region that was mainly settled on for trade and profit; staple farming
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  1. 1. Founded RI for the purpose of religious freedom
  2. 6. Explorer who discovered the New World and claimed it for Spain
  3. 8. Document written by Pilgrims/Puritans aboard the Mayflower, pledging to unite into a civil body politic
  4. 10. A system of trading in which Africans were kidnapped from their homes, deported to America, and sold as slaves
  5. 11. A colony in which the English monarch provided land to proprietors in exchange for yearly payment
  6. 12. Economic system in which the mother country gets rich at the expense of her colonies by restricting trade
  7. 13. Protected the basic civil rights of individuals; model for the US Bill of Rights
  8. 15. Proclamation issued by King George III that banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains (name of document, then year)
  9. 16. Leader of the First Great Awakening
  10. 18. The colonial region that relied on plantation farming, cash crops, and slavery
  11. 19. Economic competition with little government control
  12. 20. A colony that was under the direct control of the British crown
  13. 23. Political cartoon drawn by Benjamin Franklin that urged the US colonies to unite
  14. 24. Founded as a debtor colony and a buffer zone between the colonies and Spanish Florida