Across
- 4. Company – Charter group behind England’s first colony
- 6. I of England – King who gave the Jamestown charter
- 8. John Smith – “He who does not work, shall not eat”
- 10. Anglo-Powhatan War – Early clash, ended with Pocahontas’ marriage
- 11. Rolfe – Tobacco pioneer, husband of Pocahontas
- 14. Francis Drake – Pirate-knight who circled the globe
- 15. Anglo-Powhatan War – 1644 uprising, ended native resistance
- 20. – Native woman who bridged two worlds
- 23. – French Protestants persecuted for their faith
- 24. – Legendary co-founder of the Iroquois League
- 25. Netherland – Dutch colony where NYC was born
Down
- 1. I – Virgin queen who backed explorers
- 2. company – Early investors’ way to fund risky voyages
- 3. Walter Raleigh – Sponsored the failed Roanoke Colony
- 5. of Nantes – 1598 decree granting French Protestants rights
- 7. Armada – 1588 fleet defeated by English wind and fire
- 9. – Inheritance law favoring the eldest son
- 12. Confederacy – Five Nations alliance in Northeast America
- 13. Reformation – 16th-century faith shake-up sparked by Luther
- 16. Island – “Lost Colony” vanished mysteriously in the 1590s
- 17. – Leader of a powerful Tidewater confederacy
- 18. De La Warr – Brought war tactics to Virginia
- 19. de bois – French-Canadian fur traders, “runners of the woods”
- 21. – Royal permission slip for colonization
- 22. – 1607 English settlement, struggled but survived