Colonizing North America

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Across
  1. 2. Small towns on Spanish settlements
  2. 5. Verrazano and Cartier explored for this country
  3. 6. In 1605 this was the first French settlement in North America
  4. 7. The followers of Martin Luther who protested against the Catholic Church
  5. 9. He was a German monk who posted 95 Theses or arguments against the Church in 1517 in Wittenberg, Germany
  6. 10. He built a trading post on the St. Lawrence River known as Québec
  7. 12. a shorter waterway through or around North America
  8. 14. Another name for conquerer
  9. 15. An area of land granted to a Spanish settler with the legal permission to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
  10. 18. Also known as "runners of the woods" they were French colonists who lived in the woods
  11. 20. A fort where Spanish soldiers lived
  12. 22. The Aztec emperor who ruled much of Mexico
  13. 23. He had the idea that Africans be brought as slaves to replace forced Indian laborers
  14. 24. The great Aztec and Incan Empires were conquered by these Europeans
  15. 25. One reason the Spanish colonized the Americas was to spread their __ beliefs
Down
  1. 1. in Spain's American colonies, A person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
  2. 3. Large numbers of Native Americans died from this European disease
  3. 4. By the late 1500s England and the Netherlands were largely followers of
  4. 8. By the late 1500s, Spain and France were ruled by monarchs who practiced this religion
  5. 11. A person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents
  6. 13. A social class in New Spain that held the highest jobs in government and the Church
  7. 16. A Spanish explorer who tried to find the "seven cities of gold"
  8. 17. Settlements run by Catholic priests and friars
  9. 19. The paying for forgiveness of one's sins
  10. 21. Explorer An English explorer who has a river named for him and who explored for the Dutch