Across
- 3. A state in the American Southwest that has a unique culture shaped by Native American, Spanish, and Mexican heritage, reflected in its cuisine, architecture, and traditions
- 4. Known today as pilgrams
- 8. Person who worked for several years in exchange for passage to America
- 11. Businesses where investors share profits and risks to fund colonies
- 12. Led a rebellion of frontier settlers against Virginia’s government in 1676
- 14. Explorer and former Governor of Puerto Rico
- 17. Leader of Jamestown who helped the colony survive
- 18. Church members who wanted to "purify" or reform the Church of England
- 19. he second permanent English Colony in North America
- 20. The flagship of the Puritan expedition to America
Down
- 1. An English settlement founded in 1630 by Puritans seeking to create a society based on religious beliefs
- 2. First permanent English settlement in North America (1607)
- 5. A nation that decided to take a stand against the colonists. The colonists formed an alliance with the Narragansett
- 6. Conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century
- 7. Conquistador and former Governor of New Spain
- 9. Colony ruled directly by the English king
- 10. Native American chief who led tribes near Jamestown
- 13. A person of mixed race, especially one of Indigenous and Spanish or Portuguese descent
- 15. A vast colonial territory of the Spanish Empire, established after the conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521
- 16. A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indigenous inhabitants of an area