The Atlantic World (1492-1800)

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Across
  1. 2. War fought between Britain and France over land in North America
  2. 5. Group of Spanish soldiers who explored and conquered the Americas
  3. 8. Settlements established by European nations in the Americas
  4. 12. Document declaring the American colonies’ freedom from Britain
  5. 14. Early English settlers who came to America for religious freedom
  6. 16. Trade network that exchanged goods and enslaved people between three continents
Down
  1. 1. System that divides power between national and state governments
  2. 3. Italian explorer who sailed to the Americas in 1492
  3. 4. System in which enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas
  4. 6. First ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
  5. 7. Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire
  6. 9. Forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean
  7. 10. System that prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful
  8. 11. English settlement founded in Virginia in 1607
  9. 13. Author of the Declaration of Independence
  10. 15. Religious group that settled Massachusetts seeking to “purify” the Church of England