S.S. Ch. 5 less. 1-4 13 original colonies
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 John Smith | leader of the Jamestown colony |
| William Penn | Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681 |
| Thomas Hooker | Puritan minister who founded the colony of Connecticut in 1636 |
| Samoset | Wampanog man who helped the pilgrims in 1620 |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan leader who was banished from nassacchusetts for her religious views |
| John Rolfe | Jamestown colony leader who showed that tobacco could be grown successfully in Virginia |
| William Bradford | leader of the pilrims who came to North America on the Mayflower & founded Plymouth colony in 1620 |
| Henry Hudson | English sea captain who explored North America in search of the Northwest Passage in the early 1600's |
| Tomochichi | Yamacraw chief who agreed to give James Oglethorpe land to found the colony of Georgia |
| King James I | King of Enland who in 1600 gave the Virginia company of London a charter to set up a colony in Virginia |
| Francis Drake | first English sea captain to sail around the World in 1577 |
| Roger Williams | Puritan minister who founded Rhode Island as a place of religious freedom in 1636 |
| John Winthrop | Puritan leader & 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 |
| Massoit | Leader of the Wompanog who signed a peace treaty w/ the pilgrims as Plymouth |
| Squanto | Pawtuxet Native American who helped the English settlers at Plymouth by teaching them key survival skills such as how to grow corn |
| John White | Leader of the English colony of Roanoke in 1587 |
| Walter Raleigh | English explorere and soldier who explored North America in the 1580's and founded the "lost colony" of Roanoke in 1587 |
| Queen Elizabeth 1st | Queen of England during the English defeat of the Spanish Armada and the founding of Roanake, England's 1st colony in the Americas |
| James Oglethorpe | English leader who founded the colony of Georgia as a place where debtors from England could begin new lives |
| Samuel de Champlain | French explorer who founded Quebec , the 1st permanent French settlement in North America |
| Pocahantas | daughter of Chief Powhatan who helped establish a time of peace between the Powhatan people & the English colonists in Jamestown |
| Chief Powhatan | leader of Powhatan people & the dear ole dad of Pocohantas |
| Mama Powhatan | mom of Pocahantas :) |
| Robert Suntex | he invented firstinmath (4+8) - (1+2) + 4/5=65 |
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