Unit 2 - Discovery and Settlement

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Across
  1. 2. ship with a steering rudder and triangular sails, allowed sailors to sail against the wind
  2. 3. person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents
  3. 4. a person of mixed Spanish and African heritage
  4. 10. person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony
  5. 13. rule by lords who owe loyalty to a monarch
  6. 14. agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony, signed by Pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth
  7. 16. a person of mixed Spanish and Indian heritage
  8. 17. device that shows which direction is North, allowed sailors to sail in a straight line
  9. 19. French word meaning “rebirth”; burst of learning in Europe from the late 1300s to about 1600
  10. 20. instrument to measure the positions of stars and figure out latitude
  11. 22. a water route through North America
  12. 24. representative assembly in England
  13. 25. town in the Spanish colonies
Down
  1. 1. large estate farmed by many workers
  2. 3. legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
  3. 5. right given by Spanish government to Spanish settlers to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
  4. 6. Spanish word for conqueror
  5. 7. king or queen
  6. 8. movement to reform the Catholic Church in the 1500s; led to creation of many different Christian churches
  7. 9. document that guaranteed rights to English nobles
  8. 11. world-wide exchange of goods and ideas that began with Columbus’s voyages to the Americas
  9. 12. group of people who move to a new land and are ruled by the government of their native land
  10. 15. ocean trip from Africa to the Americans in which thousands of enslaved Africans died
  11. 18. religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars
  12. 21. peasants who worked for a lord and could not leave without the lord’s permission
  13. 23. fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies