Colonizing North America

1. He built a trading post on the St. Lawrence River known as Québec
3. Verrazano and Cartier explored for this country
5. By the late 1500s, Spain and France were ruled by monarchs who practiced this religion
10. He was a German monk who posted 95 Theses or arguments against the Church in 1517 in Wittenberg, Germany
11. The paying for forgiveness of one's sins
12. The followers of Martin Luther who protested against the Catholic Church
13. Small towns on Spanish settlements
14. Settlements run by Catholic priests and friars
16. An area of land granted to a Spanish settler with the legal permission to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
19. In 1605 this was the first French settlement in North America
20. The great Aztec and Incan Empires were conquered by these Europeans
21. A social class in New Spain that held the highest jobs in government and the Church
23. A Spanish explorer who tried to find the "seven cities of gold"

1. Also known as "runners of the woods" they were French colonists who lived in the woods
2. in Spain's American colonies, A person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
4. By the late 1500s England and the Netherlands were largely followers of
6. a shorter waterway through or around North America
7. Explorer An English explorer who has a river named for him and who explored for the Dutch
8. Another name for conquerer
9. A person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents
15. Large numbers of Native Americans died from this European disease
17. One reason the Spanish colonized the Americas was to spread their __ beliefs
18. The Aztec emperor who ruled much of Mexico
21. A fort where Spanish soldiers lived
22. He had the idea that Africans be brought as slaves to replace forced Indian laborers