Colonizing North America

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