Voyage to the New World

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
P I G I S
One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony (plural)
2.
M A Y W E R
Low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant
3.
J N S
United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train
4.
H A R D K
A mountain mahogany
5.
V O A G
An act of traveling by water
6.
H O L N D
A constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea
7.
S P E E L L
8.
P O V I C E T N
9.
M A S S A H U S T
One of the British colonies that formed the United States
10.
B R T N
English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika
11.
C A P E D
A Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic
12.
E G L N D
Country in the UK whose capital is London