Explorers and Settlers Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. One of the first Englishmen to attempt a colony in North America at Roanoke in what is now North Carolina.
  2. 5. A British aristocrat, military general, and member of Parliament who founded the colony of Georgia as a refuge for the poor and persecuted
  3. 10. Led the Pilgrims to the New World, founded the colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was governor for 30 years
  4. 13. He and Anne Hutchinson were exiles from the Puritan colonies; together they founded the colony of Rhode Island with a government that was separate from religion
  5. 14. A Powhatan Indian girl who befriended John Smith and the Jamestown settlers; later converted to Christianity and married an Englishman named John Rolfe
  6. 15. This group wanted to reform the Church of England, but were not allowed to worship as they believed; led by John Winthrop, they formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the city of Boston
  7. 19. This colonist led the Quakers and other religious minorities from European nations to have religious freedom in the New World; had good relations with Native Americans.
  8. 20. Viking who discovered North America when his ship was blown off course; made a settlement called Vinland
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  1. 1. French explorer founded New France and Quebec City in what became Canada; he became known as the Father of New France
  2. 3. Brave Shoshone woman who was a guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark
  3. 4. Explored the North American coast, finding and sailing up a river later named for him
  4. 6. First explorer to sail from Europe around the horn of Africa to India
  5. 7. Norwegian Arctic explorer who discovered the northwest passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the early 1900s. First to reach the North and South Pole.
  6. 8. Two friends chosen by Thomas Jefferson to explore and map the interior of the United States; they traveled from Pittsburgh, PA all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
  7. 9. Italian explorer who explored and wrote a book about the Asian continent.
  8. 11. Tried to find a faster sea route to India by sailing west; discovered the American continent in 1492
  9. 12. An Italian explorer who, with his son Sebastian, was commissioned to explore and map the North American coast
  10. 16. British explorer and mapmaker. He made discoveries throughout the Pacific Ocean, including Australia, the Hawaiian Islands, and New Zealand.
  11. 17. English explorer who helped found Jamestown in 1607, and served as president of the colony
  12. 18. Also called Separatists, these people sailed to North America on the Mayflower and founded Plymouth colony and first government of the people (Mayflower Compact) in what is now Massachusetts.