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Down: 1) John Cabot discovers the continent of North America in 1947 for what country?2) What did Columbus name the Island where he first landed?3) What year was Christopher Columbus born and where?4) Captain Henry Hudson reaches America and finds this near the long narrow island that the Indians called Manhattan Island.8) Two American plants sent back to the Old World with Sir Walter Raleigh.9) What Queen Elizabeth named the new country, "The Good Land", that Sir Walter Raleigh discovered.10) The Captain that sailed for Queen Elizabeth and landed on the Island of Roanoke, what is now the State of North Carolina. 11) The Oldest city built by the Spaniards in all of North America in what is now Florida. The fort was built in 1565.16) Discovers the Mississippi River, the Great River, which is also the largest river in North America. Thereafter, he died and was buried along the muddy shores. Across: 3) The year Columbus set sail to cross the "Sea of Darkness".5) A large bay in the northern part of America in northeast Canada known to be where the founding Captain died.6) The Great River later became known as this after the Captain that found it.7) Did the first settlement on Virginia survive?12) This gift from the people of France, stands in what was the silent Harbor where Henry Hudson first saw a few Indian canoes, now the busiest seaport in the world. 13) The Italian who visited the New World after John Cabot and wrote about his first account of the mainland. It was for this reason that the whole continent was named after him: AMERICA14) Did Columbus ever land on any part of what is now the United States?15) Columbus set sail on behalf of Spain in order to find a shorter route to ____ for trading.17) Hundreds of New York Men who fought with General Washington in the Great War of the American Revolution for freedom of rule of the King of England to become the United States of America.18) Discovered Florida for Spain in search for the Fountain of Youth19) A cluster of Islands that Columbus came upon and named since he came fro Spain to the West and the people were darker skinned, thinking they were Indians.
 

 

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