| A | B |
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| John Smith | English colonist, helped found Jamestown. Encouraged hard work and better housing |
| Roger Willilams | Puritan who wanted his church to separate from other New England churches, criticized taking natives land. Leaders made him leave, founded what would become Rhode Island |
| James the Duke of York | Brother of King Charles II, forced Dutch to surrender their colony. He renamed it New York |
| William Penn | 1682 Penn and Quakers founded the colony of Pennsylvania. Built Philadelphia(City of Brotherly Love) to reflect welcoming values |
| John Wheelwright | Puritan who was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded Exeter, New Hampshire |
| Thomas Hooker | Left Massachusetts to found a more open minded colony, named it Connecticut |
| John Winthrop | 1630 led Puritans from England to Massachusetts to seek religious freedom |
| Lord Baltimore | Also known as George Calvert, established a colony for Catholics and named it Maryland (after Queen of England) |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Was given permission to found a colony. 1854 sent people to Virginia and North Carolina. Colonists at Roanoke found life hard. |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Led the colony of New Netherlands (later renamed New York), he was forced to surrender (New Amsterdam) to the English in 1664 |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of Powhatan leader who married John Rolfe and helped secure more peaceful relations between colonists and natives |
| Squanto/Wanpanoag | A Patuxet Indian who had lived in Europe and spoke English. Taught Pilgrims to fertilize the soil and have better relations with the Native American Wampanoag people |
| King Phillips War | 1675, Metacomet is a Wampanoag leader also known as King Phillip. The war was between colonial militia and Indian warriors. 600 colonists and 3,000 Indians had been killed, including King Phillip |
