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Across 4. To protect their land claims, the French built an extensive system of _____. 6. The Ohio River was especially important to the French, because it provided a vital link between their lands in ______ and the Mississippi River. 8. English settlers were mostly _____ families. 9. Unlike the French, the English_______ Indian rights when they cleared land for crops. 11. The English won over the powerful ______ nations, who were old enemies of the Algonquins and the Hurons. 15. Engraved lead plates were nailed to a tree or set in the ground proclaiming that the fertile land of the Ohio Valley belonged to ________. 16. At first, most English settlers were content to remain along the ______ coast. 17. Both France and England hoped to drive the other nation out of North _____. 19. Gist found a good spot for settlement where the Ohio and ______ Rivers meet. 20. A lot of French _______ married Native American women and adopted their ways. 22. By the mid-1700s, the major powers of Europe were locked in a worldwide struggle for _______. 23. The Hurons often served as __________ between French traders and other Indian nations. 25. William Johnson was one of the few English settlers who had an Indian wife, Molly ______. 26. Molly Brant's brother, Mohawk Chief Thayendanegea (known to the English as Joseph Brant), became a valuable _____ for the English. 27. The threat from France was much more serious to the English ________. 28. Some Native Americans decided that the only way to protect their way of life was to take _____ in the struggle.

Down 1. By the late 1600s, England had already taken over New York from the _____. 2. Some Indians supported the English because they charged ______ prices for trade goods than the French did. 3. Traders pushed into the Ohio Valley, trying to take over the profitable French trade with the _______. 5. Most French in North America were trappers and ______. 7. Native Americans did not want to give up their Ohio Valley land to _____ settlers. 10. The major threat from Spain was in the West Indies and along the border between ______ and Spanish Florida. 12. The loss of Indian trade __________ the French, who were determined to defend their claims in the Ohio Valley. 13. The English paid little attention to Spain's _______ in present-day New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. 14. The French expected the Indians to side with _____. 18. Native Americans had hunted animal and grown crops in the Ohio Valley for _______. 21. William Johnson, an English trader and official, helped gain Iroquois support for ______. 24. Christopher Gist, a Virginia fur trader, worked for the ______ Company.