Settlements take root

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Across
  1. 5. a grant from the Spanish government that gave a Spanish settler the right to control local Native Americans
  2. 7. the name of the crop raised for sale f.e. tabacco
  3. 10. the first unsuccessful English colony ​
  4. 11. the oldest European settlement in the USA
  5. 12. a Dutch explorer who found a river along which New Netherlands was set
  6. 13. a group of settlers from England that set a colony in Massachusetts
Down
  1. 1. the first settlement of the French colonists
  2. 2. the successful English colony financed by the Virginia Company
  3. 3. ruler
  4. 4. the feast in autumn 1621 to celebrate successful harvest
  5. 6. the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America
  6. 8. the good the French and the Dutch traded
  7. 9. the French colony in America in the valley of Mississippi