Virginia Beginnings

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Across
  1. 2. The time of desperation due to lack of food
  2. 4. In times of conquests, it was used for trades instead of money
  3. 9. Was the man that gave Virginia its name, after queen Elizabeth, the virgin queen
  4. 12. A synonym of starvation,the cause of many deaths
  5. 14. The English conquerors felt excited when they first saw this american land in 1607
  6. 15. The name of the fisr English child born in America,Virginia was her pile name.
  7. 16. a law advisor body, known as "house" and constituted by the higher class, they regulated the Virginia Company
  8. 18. a company that managed the first English expeditions
Down
  1. 1. Claimed in one of his writer that an Indian chief's daughter saved his life, her name was Pocahontas
  2. 3. A region nowdays known as the state of North Carolina
  3. 5. A man, said to be the one that discovered how to "cure" Tobacco
  4. 6. The name of the first lasting English settlement
  5. 7. a River named after the current king of England of that time
  6. 8. Slaves brought to America from Africa
  7. 10. Spaniards had already found it and everyone was seeking for it
  8. 11. Voluntary workers in exchange for food and clothes
  9. 13. Thought to be the name Indians gave to Virginia, found carved on a tree.
  10. 17. A group of women offered to men of the colonies in exchange for pounds of Tobacco, to be married.