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15 Cards in this Set
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Portuguese sailor from Spain
Sailed around the tip of South America Made it to the Pacific through the Magellan Strait. |
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John Winthrop
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Leader of a group that helped charter the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1628
Famous for his sermon "City on a Hill" that said puritans are in a pact with God to create a holy community Government of freemen, but went against Charter. |
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Anne Hutchinson
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challenged the authority of Massachusetts and Puritan ministers in 1630's
Banished by Winthrop in 1638, so she moved to Rhode Island |
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John Cabot
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Italian Navigator
Sponsored by Henry VII of England First to "discover" North America in 1497 |
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Fancisco Vasquez de Coronado
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In search of gold
Spanish explorer who traveled through Mexico and North America in 1540's |
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Thorvald Erickson
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Son of Erik the Red
Settled parts of North America in 870. Long before Columbus |
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Nathaniel Bacon
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1676 led a rebellion with poor laborers aginst Virginia's Welathy.
He also set out to massacre all Indians. He wanted to protect the rights of frontiersmen. |
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John Rolfe
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In 1612 he popularized tobacco in Virginia
This brought revenue for the colony Also married Pocahontas of the Powatons |
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Roger Williams
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Rhode Island
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William Penn
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Pennsylvania
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William Bradford
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Plymouth
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James Oglethorpe
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Georgia
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George Carteret
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New Jersey
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John Smith
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Virginia
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Martha Carrier
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Accused of killing cattle and poisoning a girl through witchcraft in 1691-92.
She was the start of the Salem Witch trials |
