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UN Chapter 2 Key People
UN Chapter 2 Key People
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History
10th Grade
12/01/2008

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John Smith
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English adventurer who became the leader of the first settlers at Jamestown.
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Powhatan
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Indian chieftan who dealt warily with the Jamestown settlers, trading with them when it was advantageous but also attacking them when they became a threat.
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Thomas Dale
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English governor sent to Jamestown to establish discipline. He is credited with beginning the head-right system.
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Pocahontas
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Indian princess who married John Rolfe of Jamestown and returned to England with him.
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John Rolfe
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Jamestown settler who married Pocahontas. He also is credited with cultivating tobacco at Jamestown.
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Cecelius Calvert
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The English proprietor who sought to make Maryland a refuge for English Catholics.
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William Berkely
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Long-serving governor of Virginia, who was chased out of the governor's residence during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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Leader of a rebellion against William Berkely's "tidewater aristocracy" over Indian policy.
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John Winthrop
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Founder and governor of the MA Bay Colony, who urged his fellow Puritan colonists to make their settlement "a city upon a hill," a shining godly example for the world to emulate and admire.
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Roger Williams
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A religious and political dissenter from the MA Bay Colony, who argued that the Indians were the rightful owners of the land and that they should be paid for it. He is the founder of Rhode Island.
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Anne Hutchinson
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A religious dissenter from the MA Bay Colony who argued that the clergy were not entitled to any spiritual authority and who cahllenged prevailing assumptions about the role of women in society. She was banished and moved first to Rhode Island and then to New York.
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Metacomet
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Indian chief of the Wampanoag tribe which led a fierce bloody and sustained attack on the New England settlements in 1675-1676. (AKA King Philip)
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Thomas Hooker
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A clergyman from Newton, MA, who in 1635 led his congregation westward into the Connecticut River valley and founded the colony of what is now Hartford in what is now Connecticut.
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Pieter Stuyvescent
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Was called to become leader to the people of New Amsterdam
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Pieter Minuit
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Bought Manhattan from the Indians
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William Bradford
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Governor of the separatist Plymouth colony, who also wrote a first-hand history of the settlement.
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