Across
- 3. the chosen religion of a political state or country
- 7. an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
- 10. a group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land
- 14. voters elect representatives to make laws for them
- 15. a waterway through or around North America
- 16. an example for others to follow in the future
- 17. town
- 18. a person born in the Americas to Spanish parents
Down
- 1. to sail completely around
- 2. a religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars
- 4. a global exchange of goods and ideas beginning with the voyages of Columbus
- 5. a fort where soldiers lived
- 6. conqueror
- 8. a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
- 9. French colonists who lived and worked in the woods
- 11. a representative to the government
- 12. top of the social scale in the Spanish colonies, these people were born in Spain, held the highest jobs in government and the church, and owned large tracts of land
- 13. a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background