Across
- 3. a person who rules a country as a representative of his or her king and is empowered to act in the king's name
- 6. the limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness
- 8. a land agent who recruits new settlers, divides up property, and keeps the law
- 10. volunteer soldiers
- 11. a person who moves to a new country
- 13. a conqueror, especially one of Spanish descent from the sixteenth century
- 15. the overthrow of one government and its replacement with another
Down
- 1. a crop grown to sell at a market colony: a settlement of people who have moved to another country but are still ruled by their home country
- 2. a celebration that a girl might have on her fifteenth birthday
- 4. a Spanish cowboy
- 5. a settlement where religion is taught
- 7. a journey made for a special purpose
- 9. a Spanish town
- 12. a Spanish military fort
- 14. the practice of owning people and forcing them to work without pay