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| Squanto | A Native American who helped the settlers in Plymouth survive by teaching them which crops to plant. |
| Samoset | An Indian chief who also worked with the Pilgrims. His tribe was invited to the first Thanksgiving |
| Roger Williams | A clergyman in Boston who was banished and then founded the colony of Providence. He allowed for freedom of religion and good relations with the Native Americans. |
| Anne Hutchinson | One of the persecuted persons that was welcomed into Providence after the people of Boston banished her for heresy. |
| Henry Hudson | A Dutch captain who explored waterways in what is now New York. An important river and bay were named for him because he first navigated them while searching for NW Passage. |
| Peter Minuit | A Dutchman who came over to be the leader of a trading post in New York in 1624. He traded approximately $24 worth of trinkets to some Indians to be able to inhabit Manhattan Island. The area the Dutch settled was called New Amsterdam, but became New York. |
| John Peter Zenger | He printed bad things about the government, but his case became the first example of freedom of press. |
| Iroquois League | 5 Indian tribes in New York joined together to form this because they had similar interests and language. They were sworn enemies of some of the Native Americans who were allies and trading partners of the French. |
| Quakers | They were known as the Society of Friends and were founded as a religious group by George Fox around 1650. They believe that it is OK to pray without a priest and they sought the inner light within themselves. They are pacifists and were often persecuted for their unwillingness to fight. |
| William Penn | A Quaker who received land in the New World. He used the land to establish Pennsylvania, a haven for Quakers. He treated all people, including Native Americans, fairly and his colony prospered. |
| Lord Baltimore | A member of the Calvert family, which was Catholic. He received a grant of land from the king of England in 1632 and he set up the colony of Maryland with the idea that it could make money for him and be a refuge for Catholics (who were often persecuted by members of the Church of England). Tobacco played a role in its success. |
| James Oglethorpe | He asked the King of England for land in the New World for debtors. The land he was given was Georgia and it served as a buffer between the Spaniards in Florida and the English in South Carolina. At first it tried to outlaw slavery. |
| House of Burgesses | The first representative legislative body in the colonies (like the first congress) |
| New England Confederation | It was formed to solve common problems. It consisted of Conn., New Haven, Plymouth, and Mass. Bay Colony and was like the United States. |
| Bacon’s Rebellion | In 1676, farmers, led by one in particular, were upset that Virginia’s House of Burgesses was treating the Indians too gently and that the Indians were allowed to keep land the farmers wanted. This was the first revolution against the government in America. |
| Indentured servants | People who came to the New World and worked, basically like a slave, for a period of about seven years for their passage over, food, and lodging. |
