Across
- 2. A region of North America that includes colonies like Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
- 4. Explorers' motivations for exploration
- 9. The business entity responsible for founding Jamestown and expanding English settlements in America.
- 10. The confederation of five Native American nations, including the Mohawk, Seneca, and Onondaga
- 11. The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
- 12. An Italian explorer credited with discovering the Americas in 1492.
- 15. One of the three colonial regions, including Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas, known for plantation agriculture
Down
- 1. A group of colonies in present-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
- 3. The exchange of goods, plants, animals, and diseases between the New World and Old World.
- 5. A group of separatists who settled Plymouth Colony in 1620.
- 6. A form of agriculture in which plants like tobacco and cotton were grown for profit.
- 7. The first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607.
- 8. A system of trade involving Europe, Africa, and the Americas, often linked to the Atlantic slave trade.
- 13. A colony founded by Puritans, often considered the heart of New England.
- 14. Religious group aiming to purify the Church of England, settled in Massachusetts Bay.
