Colonial America

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Soft silky fibers from ___ plants in their raw state (6)
  2. 5. A newly established colony (10)
  3. 6. One of the British colonies that formed the United States (13)
  4. 8. Plant dried and smoked in cigarettes (7)
  5. 9. Noticeable heterogeneity (9)
  6. 11. One of the British colonies that formed the United States (12)
  7. 15. An illness that harms the body (7)
  8. 16. A former village on the ___ River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk (9)

Down

  1. 1. A member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that (plural) (8)
  2. 2. A river in the northeastern United States (11)
  3. 4. One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony (plural) (8)
  4. 7. The construction of ships (12)
  5. 10. A state in southeastern United States (7)
  6. 12. A state in the eastern United States (8)
  7. 13. One of the British colonies that formed the United States (9)
  8. 14. The largest city in ___ ___ State and in the United States (7)