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People of Interest

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Founded Rhode Island to accept those not welcome in Massachusetts

Roger Williams

Brother of King Charles II, given claim to the area including New York, New Jersey, Delaware,

Maine, and the surrounding islands

James,

The Duke of York

Applied for charter for Maryland, as refuge for Catholics, but died, so his son Cecilius was given

claim

Sir George Calvert,

Lord Baltimore

Settled and founded Connecticut after leaving Massachusetts

Thomas Hooker

Founded New Hampshire along with Sir Ferdinando Gorges

John Mason

Founded by William Penn and run

on his “Holy Experiment”

Pennsylvania

Granted as a colony to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley by the Duke of York

New Jersey

Founded by James Oglethorpe as a buffer between the colonies and the Spanish, a refuge for

imprisoned debtors, banned rum and slaves

Georgia

Founded by John Winthrop, and meant for Puritans, the first settlement was thought of as “A

City on a Hill”

Massachusetts

First British colony, it's first settlement named Jamestown, and it's main crop was tobacco

Virginia

Introduced tobacco to the farmers of Jamestown

John Rolfe

Led the citizens of Jamestown, and helped them to survive by imposing order and making them

work and farm for food

John Smith

Ensured the Plymouth colony of Pilgrims survived, along with Squanto

William Bradford

Drew the “Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina”

John Locke

Governor of the Dominion of New England, was unpopular with settlers, and was overthrown in

the 1689 Boston Revolt

Sir Edmund Andros

Members of the Religious Society of Friends, and believed all men and women were created equal

Quakers

Group of Separatists that moved from Europe and colonized Plymouth

Pilgrims

Worked within the Church of England to remove Catholicism

Puritans

People who removed themselves from the religious rule of both the Church of England and

the Pope

Seperatists

The idea that faith alone, not deeds, is all that is necessary for salvation

Antinomianism

Gave all Christian citizens in Maryland religious freedom

Act of Toleration(1649)

Written by the Pilgrims at Plymouth as a basis for government in their settlement

Mayflower Compact

A constitution for Pennsylvania that allowed the members of it's council to vote on issues

Frame of Government

(1682-1683)

A guarantee of freedom of worship for all and unrestricted immigration to Pennsylvania

Charter of Liberties (1701)

Established a representative government consisting of a legislature elected by popular vote

in Connecticut

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut(1639)

1600s Ways of Attracting Settlers

The system used in Virginia that offered land to people who came Virginia, or for landowners to

pay for someone else to emigrate to Virginia

Headright System