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13 Colonies Study- Important People

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John White   led the second group of settlers that settled on Roanoke Island  
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Peter Stugvesant   Dutch Governor of New Netherland (Middle Colonies)  
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John Smith   English Explorer and leader of Jamestown Settlement  
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James Oglethorpe   founded Georgia colony (Southern Colonies)  
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William Penn   English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania colony (Middle Colonies)  
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John Winthrop   Purtian leader served as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (New England Colonies)  
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Walter Raliegh   English explorer who helped set up first colony in NA- Roanoke Colony  
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George Calvert   Member of the Virginia Colony, received the original charter for Maryland (Southern Colonies)  
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Cecilius Calvert   George’s son- established the Maryland Colony (Southern Colonies)  
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King Charles II   English King who gained control of the Atlantic Coast of North America  
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Tamanend   chief who developed peaceful relationship with William Penn (Middle Colonies)  
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John Whitefield   British minister who helped lead the Great Awakening (Middle Colonies)  
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney   South Carolina colonist who experimented with growing the indigo plant. (Southern Colonies)  
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Anne Hutchinson   English colonist that was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony because of her religious beliefs  
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Roger Williams   Founder for Providence (now Rhode Island) he was forced to leave Massachusetts Bay colony (New England Colonies)  
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Olandah Equiano   former enslaved person who wrote a book about his life (Southern Colonies)  
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