US History Chapter 2

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Across
  1. 6. First permanent English settlement in North America founded by the Virginia Company.
  2. 7. English courtier and adventurer who sponsored the failed settlements of North Carolina's Roanoke Island in 1585 and 1587.
  3. 8. Series of clashes between the Powhatan Confederacy and English settlers in Virgina.
  4. 10. Legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land.
  5. 11. Last-ditch effort by the Indians to dislodge Virginia settlements.
  6. 14. Short-term partnership between multiple investors to fund a commercial enterprise,
  7. 15. Absolute monarch: Also the King of Scotland; highly religious; became King England in 1603 when Queen Elizabeth I died.
  8. 17. Movement to reform the Catholic Church launched in Germany by Martin Luther.
  9. 18. of Nantes Decree issued by the French crown granting limited tolerance to French Protestants.
  10. 19. English colonist whose marriage to Pocahontas in 1614 sealed the peace of the First Anglo-Powhatan War.
  11. 21. French Protestant dissenters, they were granted limited toleration under the Edict of Nantes.
  12. 22. Spanish fleet defeated in the English Channel in 1588,
  13. 23. Sir Walter Raleigh's failed colonial settlement off the coast of North Carolina.
  14. 24. The Dutch colony, located along the Hudson River area, that was established by the Dutch West India Company.
Down
  1. 1. Daughter of Chief Powhatan, she "saved" Captain John Smith in a dramatic mock execution and served as a mediator between Indians and the colonists.
  2. 2. English adventurer who took control of Jamestown in 1608 and ensured the survival of the colony by directing gold-hungry colonists toward more productive tasks.
  3. 3. Translated as "runners of the woods", they were French fur-trappers who established trading posts throughout North America.
  4. 4. English joint-stock company that received a charter from King James I that allowed it to found the Virginia colony.
  5. 5. Along with Deganawidah, legendary founder of the Iroquois Confederacy.
  6. 9. Bound together 5 tribes- the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas.
  7. 12. Protestant Queen of England. whose 45-year reign from 1558 to 1603 firmly secured the Anglican Church.
  8. 13. Colonial governor who imposed harsh military rule over Jamestown after taking over in 1610.
  9. 16. Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy and father to Pocahontas.
  10. 20. Legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations.
  11. 22. English sea captain who completed his circumnavigation of the globe in 1580, plundering Spanish ships and settlements along the way.