Thirteen Colonies Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. crop crop sold for money at market
  2. 3. the movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason
  3. 4. a plant used to make a valuable blue dye
  4. 6. representative to the colonial Virginia government
  5. 9. a person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony
  6. 10. a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
  7. 15. tolerance the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs
  8. 19. Bill of Rights a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens
  9. 20. school a school run by women, usually in their own homes
  10. 22. a person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents
  11. 23. group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  12. 25. the act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person's reputation
  13. 26. in Spain's American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
  14. 27. Dutch German-speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania
  15. 29. a combination of English and West African languages spoken by African Americans in South Carolina and Georgia
  16. 30. class in the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some tradespeople
  17. 32. an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
  18. 34. Revolution in 1688, the movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens
  19. 35. an English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s
  20. 38. of Toleration a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
  21. 41. a religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion into a new area
  22. 43. a person who learns a trade or craft from a master
  23. 45. a fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies
  24. 47. governmnet a political system n which voters elect representatives to make laws for them
Down
  1. 1. the theory that a nation's economic strength came from selling more than it bought
  2. 5. passage a waterway through or around North America
  3. 7. Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people
  4. 8. trade the colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies
  5. 11. the belief that one race is superior to another
  6. 12. the mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs
  7. 13. codes laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights
  8. 14. a town in the Spanish colonies; a village or town of the Anasazi or other American Indian groups in the American Southwest
  9. 16. a trade product sent to markets outside a country
  10. 17. Court the elected representative assembly of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  11. 18. Rebellion a 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony's government
  12. 21. colony an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment
  13. 24. colony colony under the direct control of the English crown
  14. 26. Compact a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony
  15. 28. Acts a series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies
  16. 31. a Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain
  17. 33. a group of people, usually elected, who have the power to make laws
  18. 36. Awakening a religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s, also known as the First Great Awakening
  19. 37. a nickname for New Englanders
  20. 39. meeting a meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters
  21. 40. the highest social class in the English colonies
  22. 42. a person who cannot pay money he or she owes
  23. 44. trade products brought into a country
  24. 46. of rights a list of key individual rights and freedoms