Across
- 1. Period of starvation during the winter in Jamestown
- 3. A split in Christianity that helped formed Protestant religions.
- 6. System used by the Virginia Company to attract colonist
- 8. low house of the Virginia legislature
- 9. Italian explorer who discovered America
- 10. Spanish explorer;first to see the Pacific Ocean
- 11. First permanent settlement
- 12. Italian explorer who explored the Coast of South America
- 15. Religious leader that followed Puritan leader John Cotton
- 16. A joint stock company approved by King James to create new settlements
- 18. Led the first European voyage to sail around the world
- 19. nomadic people who hunt animals and gather berries and other material
- 20. Lost colony; first attempt in August 1587
- 21. Strip of land connecting two continents
Down
- 2. Leader of Rhode Island and a strong believer in free religion
- 4. the customary practice of owing Africans as slaves
- 5. Revival of arts, literature, and learning
- 7. Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflict
- 13. Portuguese explorer; first to reach Asia by going around Africa
- 14. first agreement for self-government for the Plymouth Colony
- 17. First English child born in the New World