Unit 2: Key Colonial Figures

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Across
  1. 3. Governor of Virginia criticized for favoring wealthy landowners and ignoring frontier settlers
  2. 6. Founded New Hampshire after being banished from Massachusetts for religious disagreements
  3. 7. Dutch governor of New Netherland who surrendered the colony to the English
  4. 8. Founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker colony promoting equality and religious freedom
  5. 9. Introduced tobacco farming in Virginia and married Pocahontas
  6. 11. Founded Connecticut and supported voting rights and democratic ideas
  7. 13. Wampanoag man who helped the Pilgrims survive by teaching farming and fishing
  8. 14. Founded Rhode Island for religious freedom and supported separation of church and state
  9. 15. Led a rebellion against Virginia’s government over Native policies and frontier protection
  10. 17. Printer whose trial helped establish freedom of the press in the colonies
  11. 18. Helped lead Jamestown and promoted discipline and trade with Native Americans
  12. 19. Governor of Plymouth Colony; helped organize the First Thanksgiving
Down
  1. 1. Co-founder of New Jersey; helped promote religious freedom and land grants
  2. 2. Daughter of Powhatan; helped ease tensions between Native Americans and Jamestown settlers
  3. 4. Governor of Roanoke who returned to find the colony mysteriously vanished
  4. 5. Founded Georgia as a colony for debtors and as a buffer against Spanish Florida
  5. 10. Challenged Puritan leaders in Massachusetts and was banished for holding religious meetings
  6. 12. Preacher during the Great Awakening who encouraged emotional religious revival
  7. 16. Founded Maryland as a safe place for English Catholics