Unit 2 Crossword

1. Movement that emphasized reason and science to obtain knowledge; influenced colonists to question government authority.
4. Officially ended the French and Indian War in 1763.
7. English policy of not enforcing laws in its colonies; as a result, colonists got used to governing themselves.
17. Laws passed by Parliament to ensure England was profiting from colonial trade; colonial merchants smuggled to avoid laws.
19. 1st English document to limit the power of the king; ensured the king could not seize a noble's property and guranteed nobles trial by jury.
20. Financial status of British following French and Indian War which causes them to begin enforcing laws and economic measures in the colonies.
21. Made Parliament more powerful; English government would be based on laws made by Parliament, not the desires of the king.
22. English Enlightenment philosopher who argued that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.
23. Transatlantic voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas; Middle leg of Triangular Trade; conditions were horrible and many died during the journey.
24. Slogan created by Benjamin Franklin for his political cartoon in support of the Albany Plan of Union.
25. England's law-making assembly made of House of Lors (birth) and House of Commons (elected).

2. Guilt or innocence decided by a group of peers; guranteed to nobles in Magna Carta
3. Became the boundary between British and Spanish claims in North America after the French and Indian War; Britian gained all land EAST of this river and Spain gained all land WEST of it.
5. Written by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonies against the French; coolonial leaders refect the plan.
6. Government in which citizens elect representatives to make laws.
8. Fought between French and British over land and fur trade in the Ohio River Valley.
9. Banned colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains; angers colonists who had fought to gain that land.
10. Religious movement that swept through the colonies; encouraged ideas of equality and the right to question authourity.
11. Great Awakening preacher; terrified listeners with images of God's anger and need for salvation.
12. His failed attack on a French fort in the Ohio River Valley began the French and Indian War.
13. Attacks on British forts by Native Americans opposed to British expansion into Ohio valley following the French and Indian War.
14. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god.
15. Illegally importing and/or exporting goods.
16. Trade route with one ship making three stops.
18. His trial helped establish freedom of the press in the colonies (and later 1st Amendment).