English Colonies in North America Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• slave trade : the business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves
• cash crops : a crop, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit
• mayflower compact : an agreement that pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the americas
• proprietor : owner
• charter : a formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony’s geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed
• mercantilism : an economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies
• authorized : to grant permission for something
• economy : the way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, such as money, food, products, and services
• democratic : ruled by the people. in a democracy, citizens elect representatives to make and carry out laws.
• prosperous : wealthy