US History Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Carta- a charter of liberties signed under duress by King John of England in 1215 that influenced the development of many important modern legal and constitutional principles
  2. 5. Has a trunk
  3. 6. Companies- Joint-stock companies allowed investors to pool their wealth in support of a colony that they hoped would yield a profit.
  4. 8. The action of traveling through an unfamiliar area to learn about it
  5. 11. Large marsupial
  6. 12. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
  7. 13. a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
  8. 16. Conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century
  9. 18. Columbus- an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain
  10. 20. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
  11. 21. Man's best friend
Down
  1. 1. a form of government with a monarch at the head.
  2. 2. Liberty- the liberty of those persons who are free from external
  3. 4. a person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area.
  4. 7. a legislature similar to parliament in other nations and states.
  5. 9. Compact- a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower
  6. 10. Led by John Smith and others, the colonists selected a small, defensible peninsula where they established the settlement of Jamestown
  7. 14. Rights- Rights that people supposedly have under natural law
  8. 15. the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
  9. 17. Flying mammal
  10. 19. Likes to chase mice