US History Terms Test

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Across
  1. 3. driving out of the Muslim Moors ruling in Iberian Peninsula
  2. 7. aristocrat that founded Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers and other religious groups
  3. 8. those who wanted to completely separate from the Church of England
  4. 10. conflict that result in the massacre of the Pequot nation
  5. 12. was the first to circumnavigate the globe
  6. 13. a sun dried brick home
  7. 15. Trading society of west Africa between AD 800 – AD 1200
  8. 16. a water route to Asia through the cold water of present day Canada
  9. 20. founded a school of navigation and financed expeditions to west Africa for Portugal
  10. 24. it most famous ruler was Monsa Musa, empire dated from AD 1200 to AD 1400 in west Africa
  11. 27. time period which began at the collapse of the Roman Empire through the 14th century
  12. 29. a time in which most of the earth was covered in glaciers and ice
  13. 30. movement of people from Asia to the Americas
  14. 33. colony belonging to powerful individuals or companies
  15. 34. the founder of Quebec, the first permanent European settlement in Canada
  16. 35. looked for a route to China and the East Indies using the Atlantic Ocean
  17. 36. large west African empire lasting from 1400 to 1600
Down
  1. 1. religious group settling in Pennsylvania seeking “Inner Light”
  2. 2. first representative body in colonial America
  3. 3. colonies that belonged to the Crown
  4. 4. famous female church leader in Massachusetts later exiled for her views on female leadership in the church
  5. 5. 1675 Indian uprising believed to be led by Metacom
  6. 6. made it to India and expanded a thriving trade route for Portugal
  7. 9. strong Indian nation in present day central Mexico conquered by the Spanish
  8. 11. document that formed a government for the Pilgrims and encouraged them to obey its laws
  9. 14. federation of Native Americans from the tribes of the Mohawk, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas
  10. 17. people who worked to convert others to their religion
  11. 18. colorful leader of the Aztec civilation killed by the Spanish conquistadors
  12. 19. first to go around the southern tip of Africa using the counter-clockwise winds of the Atlantic
  13. 21. time period that opened a rebirth of learning, innovation, politics, and the arts
  14. 22. the transatlantic trade network, moving agriculture, people, and even disease
  15. 23. a variant of his first name the new continents were called
  16. 24. children of mixed heritage between Native Indian and the Spanish
  17. 25. leader of the conquistadors that overthrew the Aztecs
  18. 26. permission from a king to settle or colonize a region
  19. 28. the children of mixed marriages between the French and the natives
  20. 31. powerful chief who worked to contain the colonists in Virginia and use them to fight his enemies, also Pocahontas’ father
  21. 32. name for the rulers of the Spanish empires of America, New Spain and Peru
  22. 33. Spanish forts located near missions established by the Catholic Church in the Americas