Topic 2: European Colonization of North America (Part I)

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Across
  1. 3. a French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlement as a fur trapper.
  2. 5. a waterway through or around North America.
  3. 7. an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment.
  4. 8. a 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony's government.
  5. 9. a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.
  6. 10. an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.
  7. 11. an English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s
  8. 13. a crop sold for money at market.
  9. 15. an area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land.
  10. 16. a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  11. 17. the mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs.
  12. 19. a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.
  13. 21. a colony under direct control of the English crown.
  14. 22. the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.
Down
  1. 1. Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people.
  2. 2. a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony.
  3. 4. German-speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania.
  4. 6. a meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters.
  5. 8. a representative to the colonial Virginia government.
  6. 12. the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
  7. 14. the elected representative assembly of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  8. 18. to travel all the way around the Earth
  9. 20. a Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain.