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Gr 4 History Ch 6
Ch 6 New Names
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dutch | people who live in the Netherlands; claimed the southern part of New York |
| Henry Hudson | Dutch explorer sent to find a shortcut to Asia; found New York instead |
| Samuel de Champlain | man who explored norther New York and claimed it for France |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Dutch governor of New Netherland who finally surrendered to the British |
| Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley | men who gave New Jersey its name |
| Quakers | religious group that settled in Pennsylvania |
| William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania who carefully planned the city of Philadelphia |
| James Oglethorpe | man who founded the colony of Georgia for prisoners and poor people from England |
| George Whitefield | preacher who established the first orphanage in America |