Chapter 5 The Struggle to Found Colonies

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. An area that is approximately central within some larger region (6)
  2. 7. A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland (plural) (8)
  3. 9. A member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that (plural) (8)
  4. 10. A region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and ___ Hampshire and Vermont (10)

Down

  1. 1. Frugality in the expenditure of money or resources (7)
  2. 2. A person who owes a creditor (plural) (7)
  3. 3. One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony (plural) (8)
  4. 4. Available source of wealth (plural) (9)
  5. 6. A lake in northeastern New York, northwestern Vermont and southern Quebec (9)
  6. 8. In or characteristic of a region of the United States ___ of the Mason-Dixon line (8)