Across
- 5. Final major battle of the war
- 8. What the Pilgrims and Puritans hoped to get by forming new colonies (religious _______)
- 10. British search orders allowing officials to look anywhere for smuggled goods
- 11. Agreement Pilgrims made to self-govern in 1620
- 13. Harsh winter camp where Washington’s army trained and improved
- 16. Laws passed to punish Boston for its protests
- 18. Device that helped sailors find their direction at sea
- 19. Trade route connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas
- 24. Region with cold climate, rocky soil, and many ports
- 28. Spanish explorers who conquered large areas of the Americas
- 29. First European country to sail around Africa to reach Asia
- 31. Colony, later state, that was home to the Pilgrims and Puritans
- 34. Laws that restricted colonial trade to only Britain
- 38. Protest where colonists dumped tea into the harbor
- 39. Writer of the Declaration
- 40. French nobleman who helped train and support the Continental Army
- 41. Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Old and New Worlds
- 43. Brutal voyage enslaved Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic
- 45. Region based on plantations and enslaved labor
- 46. Region known for wheat, oats, and diverse settlers
- 47. American soldiers fighting for independence
- 48. Italian explorer sailing for Spain who reached the Caribbean in 1492
Down
- 1. Slogan arguing that colonists shouldn't pay taxes without political voice
- 2. First battles of the Revolutionary War
- 3. Ancient empire in present-day Mexico known for pyramids and accurate calendars
- 4. Religious movement in the 1700s that encouraged new ideas and questioning authority
- 6. Tax on imported goods like glass, paint, and tea
- 7. Event where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists
- 9. Explorer who circumnavigated the globe (or whose crew did)
- 12. Route explorers hoped to find through North America to Asia
- 14. Early form of government in Virginia, first elected assembly in colonies
- 15. American diplomat who secured French support
- 17. Law requiring colonists to house British soldiers
- 20. Harsh code name for colonists who supported independence
- 21. Document declaring the colonies independent from Britain
- 22. Colonists loyal to the British king
- 23. Indigenous culture known for giant stone head carvings
- 25. Assembly of colonial delegates reacting to the Intolerable Acts
- 26. Treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War
- 27. Cash crop grown in Southern Colonies
- 30. French explorers mainly interested in trading this valuable item
- 32. Tax on printed materials that angered many colonists
- 33. Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army
- 35. Three G’s reasons for colonizing
- 36. People who lived in longhouses and farmed in the Eastern Woodlands
- 37. Large farm growing one cash crop that relied on enslaved labor
- 42. Turning-point battle that helped win French support
- 44. German soldiers hired by the British