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Across 6. (1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won. 10. Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541). 11. to destroy, lay waste, leave in ruins 12. A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent. 16. A colony founded by the Dutch in the New World. It became New York. 18. The study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices - business - money 21. tending toward or resulting in withdrawal of natural resources by extraction with no provision for replenishment 22. A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. 24. French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to the British in 1763. 25. a highly contagious disease that is spread by lice 27. Native American chief who fought against English colonists in the King Philip's War

Down 1. conquistador -Came to the Aztec Empire with 600 men -Conquered all of the Empire of the Aztecs 2. English explorer -- claimed the Hudson River around present-day New York 3. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India. 4. supreme power or authority 5. land that led to the French and Indian War -- British win war and claim this land -- rich soil for farming 7. mapmaker 8. A Spanish conqueror of the Americas 9. English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620 13. A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides. 14. A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it 15. A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas 17. The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in Virginia 19. The overall deadliest known disease in the history of the world. In the 20th century alone there were approximately 500,000,000 people who died of this disease. 20. Inca ruler, strangled to death by the Spanish after paying a ransom of 24 tons of silver 23. A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. 26. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water