Famous People from the Early Colonies
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| Bartolome de Las Casas | Spanish Missionary who spent much of his life trying to help Native Americans.
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| Pedro Menendez de Aviles | Spanish leader who helped build the settlement at St. Augustine, Florida.
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| Queen Elizabeth I | Queen of England from 1558-1603.
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| Sir Walter Raleigh | English explorer who helped set up England's first colony in North American, on Roanoke Island.
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| John White | English settler who lead the second group that settled on Roanoke Island.
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| John Smith | English explorer and leader of the Jamestown settlement.
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| Pocahontas | Daughter of Chief Powhatan. She married English settler John Rolfe.
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| John Rolfe | Jamestown settler who introduced a new form of tobacco that led to great profits.
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| King Henry VIII | British King who banned the Catholic Church replacing it with the Church of England. Required all British citizens to belong to the Church of England, and punished those who disagreed.
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| William Bradford | English Pilgrim settler and the governor of the Plymouth Colony.
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| Samoset | Native American who spoke English and helped English settlers at Plymouth.
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| Tisquantum or Squanto | Native American who spoke English. He was enslaved by the Spanish. He escaped and lived in England for a time before returning to American. Squanto showed the Pilgrims where to fish and how to plant food.
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