France in the New World Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. A sea route around the top of North America to the Far East
  2. 5. What most French settlers became in the colony of Quebec
  3. 6. Land in the Mississippi River basin claimed by France
  4. 8. Christian faith that the French government wanted to spread in the New World
  5. 10. French explorer who found the St. Lawrence River and explored it as far as present-day Montreal
  6. 14. French explorer who followed the Mississippi River to its mouth and claimed the land drained by the river for France
Down
  1. 1. Present-day country in which Quebec and Montreal are both located; much of it was controlled by the French
  2. 2. Most of the French colonists who were not fur trappers were these
  3. 4. French explorer who founded the colony of Quebec on the St. Lawrence River
  4. 7. French Protestants who were forbidden to emigrate to French colonies in North America
  5. 9. Continent the French were more interested in colonizing than North America
  6. 11. Century in which France gained claims to most of Canada, the Great Lakes region of what is now the U.S., and the interior of North America along the Mississippi
  7. 12. Large group of Native Americans in the North; sworn enemies of the French
  8. 13. Catholic missionaries from France to the North American natives