Crossword Ch 3: English Colonies in America
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Directions- Use your Chapter 3 notes to complete this crossword puzzle. This will help
you review for the test.
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1. Lord ______________ established Maryland as a refuge for English Catholics.
4. Established by the Pilgrims in 1620.
6. Colony founded by proprietors Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley.
8. Book that the Puritans and Pilgrims believed was the best religious authority.
9. A list of a government's fundamental laws (Like the Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut.
11. Indian princess, daughter of Powhatan Chief
12. Document from King that gave permission to start a colony.
13. Important crop introduced by Eliza Lucas in South Carolina, used as blue dye.
16. Colony founded in 1663 by 8 lord proprietors that were friends of King Charles II.
17. The __________ __________ to America occurred when England began to punish
religious dissenters.
19. Name of the Pilgrim ship
22. The lower 3 counties of Pennsylvania were given their own representative assembly
and became the colony of ____________________.
24. People who refuse to fight in wars.
25. The Mason-Dixon _____________ determined the border between Pennsylvania and
Maryland.
26. The Mayflower ____________ was agreed to by the Pilgrims as a form of selfgovernment.
27. The system of giving 50 acres of land for each person who bought their way to
Virginia.
28. Taught the Pilgrims how to farm.
30. Established in 1607 and became the first permanent English Colony in America.
31. Colony started by James Ogelthorpe as a place to English debtors.
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2. Founded by the Puritans in 1630.
3. Thomas ______________ was the founder of Connecticut
4. Colony established by William Penn in 1683 as a place for Quakers.
5. The ____________ Company was the name of the joint-stock company that settled
Jamestown.
6. This colony was once a Dutch colony named New Netherlands.
7. Religious dissenter who was kicked out of Massachusetts and founded Providence,
Rhode Island.
10. Where the Pilgrims first moved for religious freedom.
14. "City of Brotherly Love," the city in Pennsylvania built under supervision of William
Penn.
15. Tobacco planter and husband of Pocohantas.
18. Holiday harvest celebration first held by the Pilgrims and Indians in Plymouth.
20. Cash crop in Virginia
21. Jamestown leader who forced settlers to work or not eat.
23. The "Lost Colony"
29. In Massachusetts, only male church members had the right to _________.