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9 Cards in this Set
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John Smith |
Explorer and settler, founder of James Town, Virginia. Married Pocahontas) Most of his settlers died through starvation after the first year. |
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John Rolfe |
Early settler, credited with first successful tobacco cultivation in the colony of Virginia |
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Anne Hutchinson |
Opposed the puritan clergy, was banished from the colony |
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Roger Williams |
Coined the separation of religion and state, began the colony of Providence Plantation |
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Anne Bradstreet |
Most prominent poet of North America, first female writer of British North America to be published. Was a prominent Puritan figure. |
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John Winthrop |
Wealthy Puritan, founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement of what is now New England after Plymouth Colony. |
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Johnathon Edwards |
American Theologian, congressional clergyman, his sermons stirred the religious revival called the "Great Awakening" he is known for the "Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon. |
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William Penn |
Early quaker (society of friends) and founder of Province of Pennsylvania. |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Owned a successful printing company in Philadelphia, studied electricity, invented bifocals, the lightning rod, and the stove. Is one of the Founding Fathers and signed the declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the US |
