Revolutionary Riddles
Across
- 5. What fight broke out in 1754 between the French and British in North America?
- 7. What ended the worldwide war and ensured British dominance in North America in 1763?
- 8. What were many American Indians forced to become where they did forced labor for a landlord in order to pay off debt?
- 12. Who was the catholic nun who defended women’s right to learn and was an important writer?
- 13. What Aztec emperor did messengers bring word about the Spanish to?
- 14. What was the first permanent colony the English built in 1607?
- 16. What spread rapidly to which American Indians had no immunity to, which helped the conquistadors take control of Tainos and other American Indians?
- 20. Who tried to convince the Inca leader to convert to Christianaity and accept Charles V as sovereign, and when he refused, tricked him?
- 21. What is an agreement among people?
- 23. Who were the people of American Indian and European ancestry?
- 24. What did the king set up to pass laws for the colonies in Spain?
Down
- 1. Who was the italian explorer who commanded an English expedition that reached the fishing grounds of New Zealand?
- 2. Where did the French forts, missions, and trading posts stretch to in the early 1700s?
- 3. What did the French call the Canadian part of France in the 1700s?
- 4. Who were the group of English settlers that landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts?
- 6. What priest condemned the evils of the encomienda system.
- 7. In 1492, who did Columbus conquer?
- 9. Where did the American Indians, known as the Tupian Indians, live?
- 10. Who appointed royal governors to oversee colonial affairs and had Parliament pass laws to regulate colonial trade?
- 11. In the late 1600s, who set out to strengthen royal power and boost revenues/income from taxes for his empire oversea?
- 15. Who are American-born descendants of spanish Settlers?
- 17. What were the pirates called who operated with the approval of European governments?
- 18. What conquistador arranged alliances to fight the Aztecs?
- 19. What was used to produce valuable dye which the Portuguese named the colony after?
- 22. Spanish colonial society was made of distinct social classes. What was the top of that?