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John Smith English colonizer in North America who helped establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement. Sir Walter Raleigh Leader of the Roanoke settlers. All of his expeditions (3) ended terribly. Powhatan A Virginian Indian Tribe. It is also the name of a powerful confederacy of tribes which they dominated. Pocahantas A Virgina Indian daughter of wahunsunacauh and saved John Smith (maybe) Toleration Act Maryland law protecting Catholics from immigrating Protestants and Puritans Indentured Servants Servants that had to work for a master for an agreed amount of time and then where free Mayflower Compact the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. John Winthrop Led English Puritans in 1630, and joined the Massachusetts Bay Company later that year, and then was elected their governor in October 1629. Cotton Mather Believed that lightning might be a supernatural sign Cecilius Calvert First English coloniser as the proprietor of the Maryland colony. Believed in the spiritual side of the world and attempted to prove the existence of the spiritual world with stories of witchcraft. Nathaniel Bacon A wealthy colonist of Virginia and also rebelled against the government Massachusetts Bay Colony English settlement on the east coast in New England, centered around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. Roger Williams cofounder of rhode island Anne Hutchinson an unauthorized minister of a dissident church discussion group. Metacom in 1675 Metcaom forged a military alliance with the Narragansetts and Nipmucks and attacked white settlements throughout New England. John Culpepper Representative of North Carolina. One of the first people William Penn "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. State of Pennsylvania. Edmund Andros Early colonial governor in North America he was also head of the Dominion of New England James Oglethorpe A british general and the founder of georgia