7th Grade Thanksgiving Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. started by the Pilgrims as a place to practice their religion
  2. 6. sun-dried brick, used as an adaptation to live in the Southwest
  3. 7. one thing that Europeans wanted from Asia
  4. 12. first permanent English settlement
  5. 15. describes the type of servant pledged to work for a specific amount of time
  6. 16. the most desired fur in the colony of New France
  7. 18. describes a source that comes from the time of an event
  8. 19. describes the exchange of people, goods, animals, plants and even ideas between Europe and the Americas
  9. 21. founder of the League of the Iroquois
  10. 22. the study of how we get the things we need and want
  11. 23. the crop that saved Jamestown
  12. 24. the last Dutch governor of New Netherland was a guy with a wooden leg named _____
  13. 26. used by archaeologists to study past cultures
  14. 27. colony founded for Catholics, but soon passed an Act of Toleration
  15. 29. mountains that stretch from Georgia to New England
  16. 30. colony founded by James Oglethorpe in order to give debtors a way to avoid prison
Down
  1. 1. a young person learning a trade
  2. 2. explorer who claimed what is now New York for the Dutch
  3. 4. region that had the most slaves
  4. 5. French explorer who built his ship "The Griffon" near what is now Buffalo
  5. 8. Spanish soldier who helped conquer Aztecs, Incas, and other Native Americans
  6. 9. Keepers of the Western Door
  7. 10. house that was the first representative government in the English colonies
  8. 11. Thomas Hooker's colony, which limited the power of the governor
  9. 13. the first European group to claim land in New York
  10. 14. Six?
  11. 17. Haudenosaunee = "People of the _____"
  12. 20. the Hiawatha Belt, for example
  13. 25. River, Fort, and Falls
  14. 28. a large land owner who had brought at least 50 families to live in New Netherland