The French Come to America

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Across
  1. 4. a person who looks for new land.
  2. 6. He discovered the St. Lawrence River
  3. 7. country north of the United States
  4. 10. He lived in the Virginia colony and helped the English soldiers fight during the French and Indian War.
  5. 11. He was King of France in 1682
  6. 13. The explorers Jacques Cartier and LaSalle were from this country,
  7. 14. large city in Missouri on the Mississippi
  8. 15. a shorter way; The French King wanted to find a ____to Asia.
  9. 16. exchanged one thing for another
Down
  1. 1. body of water south of New Orleans
  2. 2. In the 1500s and 1600s, many poor people came to America to work hard and ____money.
  3. 3. the people and language of France
  4. 5. He was a Frenchman who was the first person to sail all the way down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico
  5. 8. city at the southern end of the Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexice
  6. 9. large area of water
  7. 12. LaSalle called the land near the Mississippi "______."
  8. 13. The French traded with the Indians for ____.