Saville Review
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emj1076 on September 27, 2010
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social studies american history
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia in 1732 for religious freedom; protection against Florida; safe debtors |
| Berkley and Carteret | founded New Jersey in 1664 from profit for selling land |
| eight English nobles | founded North and South Carolina in 1663 to make profit from trade and selling land |
| Thomas Hooker | founded Connecticut in 1636 for profit from fur trade farming, also for religious and political freedom |
| Lord Baltimore | "George Calvert" catholic who made many unsuccessful attempts to start a colony for Roman Catholicism, died in 1632. Son ("Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore") succeed in 1632 |
| James, Duke of York | sent to seize the Dutch Colony. Succeeded in 1664 and had New York named after him for his achievement |
| Mason and Gorges | founded New Hampshire in 1622 to get profit from trade and family |
| Puritans | a group of Anglicans in England who wanted to purify their church of Catholic ways |
| Swedes | conquered New Jersey, but were later conquered by the Dutch |
| Roger Williams | banished from Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island in 1636 for religious freedom |
| William Penn | Quaker that founded Pennsylvania in 1681 from profit from selling land and religious freedom |
| Captain John Smith | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia "He who shall not work shall not eat" |
| Pocahontas | Powhatan woman who befriended the English at Jamestown and saved Captain John Smith's life |
| Powhaten | most powerful indian chief near Jamestown; Pocahontas' father |
| John Rolfe | married Pocahontas and started the planting of tobacco in Jamestown |
| Squanto | Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag |
| Metacomet | Cheif of the Wampanoags "King Philip" |
| John Winthrop | first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 |
| Anne Hutchinson | American colonist who was banished from Boston for her religious views; founded Portsmouth, Rhode Island |
| Peter Minuit | Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 in trade goods |
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