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- 2. First successful English colony established in Virginia
- 10. A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified
- 14. the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620
- 15. The economic system where people put money (capital) into a business in order to make a profit
- 16. the first inhabitants of an area and their descendants
- 17. A religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England
- 18. Time period extending from the 15th to 18th century where Europeans sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and introduced new trade routes
- 19. Colony established by English protestants in Massachusetts in 1620
- 22. The first English attempt of settling a permanent colony in the Americas in North Carolina that resulted in the entire colony disappearing with little traces explaining their fate
- 24. The way someone or something is remembered
- 26. first English-American born on American soil
- 28. Punishment or harassment usually of a severe nature on the basis of race, religion, or political opinion in one's country of origin
- 29. The widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, technology, disease, and ideas
- 30. a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands based in southeastern Massachusetts
- 31. The House of Burgesses was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia
- 32. English explore and settler sent by Queen Elizabeth I who landed in Roanoke
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- 1. A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693
- 3. Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China
- 4. The first governing document written by men aboard the Mayflower of Plymouth Colony
- 5. Was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621.
- 6. a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox c. 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles
- 7. Colony established by English Puritans
- 8. Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain. Gold, silver, jewels, timber, food, spices, animals, crops
- 9. a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
- 11. a Native American people who lived in present day Outer Banks, North Carolina
- 12. a person who explores an unfamiliar area, an adventurer
- 13. a Christian who belongs to the branch of the Christian church which separated from the Catholic church in the sixteenth century
- 20. an English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia
- 21. The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
- 23. a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations
- 25. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. Example: The group of English protestants leaving English to establish a safer colony
- 27. A colony governed by England, and then Great Britain