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20 Cards in this Set
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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In 1584 claimed land granted to him by Queen and named it Virginia
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Sir Richard Grenville
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Lead expedition to Virginia;
destroyed entire Indian village in retaliation for the suspected theft of a silver cup |
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John White
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Talented artist and veteran administrator led Ralegh's second colony
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Captain John Smith
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Traded with local Indians for food;
mapped Chesapeake Bay; instituted tough military discipline |
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John Rolfe
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Realized local weed might be valuable;
grew milder more appealing variety of tobacco; settlers threw themselves into production |
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Sir Edwin Sandys
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Led stockholders to institute sweeping reforms;
encouraged private developers to develop their own estates; relaxed martial law; created House of Burgesses and Headrights; urged settlersto diversify their economy; sent thousands of settlers |
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Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
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Sponsored settlement on coast of New Foundland
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Cecilius Calvert (second Lord Baltimore)
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Granted charter for colony N. of Virginia;
named Maryland; sanctuary for Englands persecuted Catholics |
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William Bradford
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part of original Scrooby Congregation;
wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation"; elected as Governor of Plymouth colony; persuaded pilgrims they could survive |
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John Winthrop
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Chartered Massachusettes Bay Company;
Governor of Massachusettes Bay; warned against overly democratic forms |
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Roger Williams
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Preached seperatism;
founded Providence, which became Rhode Island |
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Theophilus Eaton
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with Reverend John Dvenport settled New Haven and Long Island Sound
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Reverend John Davenport
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with Theophilus Eaton settled New Haven and Long Island Sound
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Henry Hudson
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Sailed up Hudson River;
established trading posts in New Netherland |
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William Penn
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Founded Pennsylvania;
promoted colony in Europe |
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Sir John Colleton
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Organized True and Absolute Lords Proprietors of Carolina;
attracted numbers of dissatisfied Roanoke colonists |
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Anthony Ashley Cooper
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Persuaded proprietors to invest capital in Carolina
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James Oglethorpe
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Settled Georgia
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William Byrd II
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Helped survey a disputed boundary between N Carolina and Virginia
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George Clinton
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New Yorks governor 1743-1753;
compiled extraordianry record of ineptitude as a naval officer |
