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