Across
- 3. the establishment of settlements by countries in new territories
- 4. a holiday dedicated to expressing gratitude, first celebrated by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans
- 6. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
- 7. the first people to live in North America before European settlers arrived
- 9. the first European to explore parts of North America since the time of the Vikings, starting the path for English settlers
- 10. the wealthy land-owners who held power and influence in the South
- 11. craftsmen who work with iron
- 12. Puritan village that held witch trials, in which 20 people were found guilty and executed
- 14. goods brought into a region
- 17. large animal in the Great Plains hunted by Native Americans
- 20. groups of Native Americans with their own customs, living in different regions like the Arctic, Great Plain, Southwest, Northwest, and Northeast
- 24. a wooden structure used in Puritan communities to hold a person's head and hands and publicly shame them
- 25. capturing animals (like beaver, for example) to sell their fur
- 29. the exchange of goods between different groups
- 32. daughter of the Powhatan Chief who married an Englishman and traveled to England
- 34. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
- 35. Scandinavian sailors who explored parts of North America around the year 1000, about 500 years before the Age of Exploration
- 36. the type of farming done in New England, which mainly sustained one's family
- 37. Spanish conquerors, such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who conquered indigenous people of South and Central America
- 39. the practice of farming and growing crops
- 40. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
Down
- 1. the brutal journey across the ocean marked with overcrowding, filth, disease, and death for enslaved Africans
- 2. the number of British colonies established in America by the mid 1700's
- 5. Italian explorer who reached the West Indies when he sailed west in search of a new trade route
- 8. an early English settlement established in 1585 whose inhabitants mysteriously disappeared, also known as the Lost Colony
- 13. term used to describe a region with abundant grain crops like wheat; applied to the Middle Colonies
- 15. a public sale where plantation owners purchased slaves
- 16. the first successful, permanent English Colony in America, founded in 1607 in Virginia
- 18. the type of farming done in the Middle Colonies, which produced enough to sell for a profit
- 19. people who worked in exchange for passage to the colonies, earning freedom after a number of years
- 21. a document signed aboard a ship, establishing a self-governing system for the passengers' new settlement
- 22. English Separatists who sought religious freedom in the New World
- 23. his expedition was the first to circumnavigate the world in 1522
- 24. the largest uprising of slaves South Carolina has seen, resulting in multiple deaths of colonists and fugitive slaves
- 26. settlement established in 1620 by the Mayflower's passengers
- 27. a disease brought to America by the Europeans; destroyed the Native American population who had no immunity against it
- 28. large farms found in the South where cash crops were grown with slave labor
- 30. major cash crop of the South first introduced by John Rolfe; boosted the economy of Jamestown in its critical early years
- 31. a three-stage system for trading goods and slaves from Europe, to Africa, to the New World, and back
- 33. goods sent out from a region
- 38. people who are forced to work; includes the Africans who were captured, bought, and sold in the New World