US History (exploration and colonization)

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Across
  1. 6. claimed land in New World to profit from fur trading
  2. 8. social contract that was formed and signed by the pilgrims upon their arrival at Plymouth, stated that all laws created would be followed
  3. 10. Roger Williams started religious tolerant Rhode Island
  4. 12. freedom from religious persecution, desire for large businesses to find gold
  5. 13. Massachusetts settlement, established by the Pilgrims in 1620 as a means of refuge from religious persecution
  6. 14. claimed Florida, Texas, California & built missions
Down
  1. 1. distance from Britain, Mayflower Compact (social contract), Virginia House of Burgesses (first elected representation), Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (first written constitution)
  2. 2. fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, harbors
  3. 3. a place for Catholics to live peacefully
  4. 4. wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory
  5. 5. British controlled colonial trade, angered colonists
  6. 7. first permanent British settlement, established near the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia in 1607 as a means of commercial profit
  7. 9. 1st anti-slavery group, lived in Pennsylvania
  8. 11. Transatlantic Slave Trade, plantations, cash crops, fertile soil led to different economy than North