Colonizing North America

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Across
  1. 1. Settlements run by Catholic priests and friars
  2. 3. Explorer An English explorer who has a river named for him and who explored for the Dutch
  3. 6. He built a trading post on the St. Lawrence River known as Québec
  4. 9. By the late 1500s England and the Netherlands were largely followers of
  5. 10. A fort where Spanish soldiers lived
  6. 11. Another name for conquerer
  7. 13. A person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents
  8. 15. By the late 1500s, Spain and France were ruled by monarchs who practiced this religion
  9. 18. Verrazano and Cartier explored for this country
  10. 19. A Spanish explorer who tried to find the "seven cities of gold"
  11. 21. The followers of Martin Luther who protested against the Catholic Church
Down
  1. 2. The paying for forgiveness of one's sins
  2. 4. The great Aztec and Incan Empires were conquered by these Europeans
  3. 5. The Aztec emperor who ruled much of Mexico
  4. 6. Also known as "runners of the woods" they were French colonists who lived in the woods
  5. 7. Small towns on Spanish settlements
  6. 8. A social class in New Spain that held the highest jobs in government and the Church
  7. 9. In 1605 this was the first French settlement in North America
  8. 11. One reason the Spanish colonized the Americas was to spread their __ beliefs
  9. 12. An area of land granted to a Spanish settler with the legal permission to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
  10. 14. He had the idea that Africans be brought as slaves to replace forced Indian laborers
  11. 16. He was a German monk who posted 95 Theses or arguments against the Church in 1517 in Wittenberg, Germany
  12. 17. a shorter waterway through or around North America
  13. 20. in Spain's American colonies, A person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
  14. 22. Large numbers of Native Americans died from this European disease