Across
- 3. the largest uprising of slaves South Carolina has seen, resulting in multiple deaths of colonists and fugitive slaves
- 4. term used to describe a region with abundant grain crops like wheat; applied to the Middle Colonies
- 6. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
- 7. English Separatists who sought religious freedom in the New World
- 11. the first successful, permanent English Colony in America, founded in 1607 in Virginia
- 12. an early English settlement established in 1585 whose inhabitants mysteriously disappeared, also known as the Lost Colony
- 14. the exchange of goods between different groups
- 15. large animal in the Great Plains hunted by Native Americans
- 16. Scandinavian sailors who explored parts of North America around the year 1000, about 500 years before the Age of Exploration
- 20. craftsmen who work with iron
- 23. groups of Native Americans with their own customs, living in different regions like the Arctic, Great Plain, Southwest, Northwest, and Northeast
- 24. a public sale where plantation owners purchased slaves
- 28. Italian explorer who reached the West Indies when he sailed west in search of a new trade route
- 29. people who are forced to work; includes the Africans who were captured, bought, and sold in the New World
- 32. large farms found in the South where cash crops were grown with slave labor
- 34. the type of farming done in the Middle Colonies, which produced enough to sell for a profit
- 35. a holiday dedicated to expressing gratitude, first celebrated by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans
- 36. a disease brought to America by the Europeans; destroyed the Native American population who had no immunity against it
- 37. settlement established in 1620 by the Mayflower's passengers
- 38. Spanish conquerors, such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who conquered indigenous people of South and Central America
- 39. the type of farming done in New England, which mainly sustained one's family
- 40. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
Down
- 1. goods brought into a region
- 2. the number of British colonies established in America by the mid 1700's
- 3. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
- 5. daughter of the Powhatan Chief who married an Englishman and traveled to England
- 8. people who worked in exchange for passage to the colonies, earning freedom after a number of years
- 9. the wealthy land-owners who held power and influence in the South
- 10. the establishment of settlements by foreign powers in new territories
- 13. the first European to explore parts of North America since the time of the Vikings, starting the path for English settlers
- 17. the first people to live in North America before European settlers arrived
- 18. a wooden structure used in Puritan communities to hold a person's head and hands and publicly shame them
- 19. the brutal journey across the ocean marked with overcrowding, filth, disease, and death for enslaved Africans
- 21. a document signed by the ship's passengers establishing a self-governing system for their new settlement
- 22. location of the historical witch trials in the Puritan society, in which 20 people were found guilty and executed
- 25. major cash crop of the South first introduced by John Rolfe; boosted the economy of Jamestown in its critical early years
- 26. capturing animals (like beaver, for example) to sell their fur
- 27. his expedition was the first to circumnavigate the world in 1522
- 30. goods sent out from a region
- 31. a three-stage system for trading goods and slaves from Europe, to Africa, to the New World, and back
- 33. the practice of farming and growing crops