Explorers and Settlers Crossword Puzzle
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- 2. One of the first Englishmen to attempt a colony in North America at Roanoke in what is now North Carolina.
- 5. A British aristocrat, military general, and member of Parliament who founded the colony of Georgia as a refuge for the poor and persecuted
- 10. Led the Pilgrims to the New World, founded the colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was governor for 30 years
- 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
- 14. A Powhatan Indian girl who befriended John Smith and the Jamestown settlers; later converted to Christianity and married an Englishman named John Rolfe
- 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
- 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.
- 20. Viking who discovered North America when his ship was blown off course; made a settlement called Vinland
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- 1. French explorer founded New France and Quebec City in what became Canada; he became known as the Father of New France
- 3. Brave Shoshone woman who was a guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark
- 4. Explored the North American coast, finding and sailing up a river later named for him
- 6. First explorer to sail from Europe around the horn of Africa to India
- 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.
- 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.
- 9. Italian explorer who explored and wrote a book about the Asian continent.
- 11. Tried to find a faster sea route to India by sailing west; discovered the American continent in 1492
- 12. An Italian explorer who, with his son Sebastian, was commissioned to explore and map the North American coast
- 16. British explorer and mapmaker. He made discoveries throughout the Pacific Ocean, including Australia, the Hawaiian Islands, and New Zealand.
- 17. English explorer who helped found Jamestown in 1607, and served as president of the colony
- 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.