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Across
  1. 1. governor of the so-called Lost Colony at Roanoke Island, when all of the colonists disappeared
  2. 5. Queen of England and Ireland who ruled England between 1558 and 1603
  3. 7. Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island
  4. 10. director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland (1626 - 1633) by bargaining with the natives for the "purchase" of Manhattan and founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638
  5. 12. the last of the Dutch governors of New Amsterdam, who was forced to surrender New Amsterdam to the English
  6. 13. Italian navigator and explorer for France who was the first European to sight New York and Narragansett bays
  7. 18. a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.
  8. 19. a French explorer, navigator, soldier, and diplomat, who founded Quebec City, and New France, on 3 July 1608
  9. 20. the English colony formed after the Dutch surrendered New Netherland
  10. 22. Italian explorer and navigator known for his 1497 voyage to North America, where he claimed land in Canada for England.
  11. 23. a person who trades in goods produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries.
Down
  1. 1. explorer for France, he was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
  2. 2. known for his "discovery" of two bodies of water later named after him while exploring for England and separately, the Dutch
  3. 3. an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America, but the colonists inexplicably disappeared
  4. 4. a written document outlining — or mapping — the rights and obligations of a company or organization, or a town or entire colony, granted by a king or queen
  5. 6. brother to the King of England, he took over New Amsterdam without a shot, and renamed it after himself
  6. 8. showing a great deal of variety; very different
  7. 9. an open rebellion against the proper authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against their officers.
  8. 11. purchased Manhattan Island from the natives, and founded in the same year—1623 —New Amsterdam
  9. 14. the territory colonized in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534
  10. 15. sits on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, founded by Samuel de Champlain
  11. 16. explored North America from North Carolina to present-day Florida, naming the region Virginia in honor of Elizabeth, the “Virgin Queen," and founded the colony of Roanoke
  12. 17. a small group of Native Americans who lived on the coast of what is now North Carolina, as well as an island of the same name
  13. 21. was a Dutch merchant and the Director of New Netherland from 1638 to 1647; tried to tax, and then drive out, local Native Americans