Colonial North America

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Across
  1. 3. a Spanish province from 1685 to 1821; included the mission of San Antonio de Valero
  2. 4. first European settlers of the Delaware Valley, introduced Scandinavian log cabin to America
  3. 8. large-scale exchange of European goods for beaver pelts and deer hides, as facilitated by the French Coureur de Bois and Voyageurs
  4. 10. the "Father of New France", who pushed deep into the Canadian interior, yet alienated Iroquois nations (early 1600s)
  5. 12. Jesuit missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the Mississippi river (1670s)
  6. 13. Abundant source of protein indigenous to Canadian waters, as reported by John Cabot in 1497
  7. 14. extensive conflicts, principally among Indian nations, for control of the fur trade and access to European trade goods (1600s)
Down
  1. 1. leading Spanish post in colonial New Mexico, a community far more populous and successful than Arizona or California
  2. 2. French adventurer who exited the Mississippi river into the Gulf of Mexico, thereby helping to establish a French claim to Louisiana
  3. 5. first European settlers of New York and the Hudson Valley, 1614-1664
  4. 6. people of Anasazi descent who, led by el Pope, forcibly pushed out Spanish rule in 1680
  5. 7. held by Spain (1565-1763 and 1783-1819), Britain (1763-1783), and finally the United States (since 1819)
  6. 9. Florida nation which emerged out of various cimarron communities during the early 1770s
  7. 10. French explorer who visited Stadacona (site of Quebec) and Hochelaga (site of Montreal) in the 1530s
  8. 11. the "pays de haute", as historian Richard White describe it, a place between cultures, peoples, and in between empires and the nonstate world of villages"