Important New World Peeps
Christopher Columbus
Sailed for Spain
 Route to Asia
 Explorer, colonizer, navigator
 European “awareness” of American
Continent
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Jacques Marquette
French missionary
 Michigan’s first European settlement
 Mapped parts of the Mississippi River
 Father Marquette
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Henry Hudson
From England
 Explorer and Navigator
 Hudson River
 Looking for the Northwest Passage
 Mutiny
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John Smith
England
 Explorer, Soldier and author
 Jamestown Virginia
 Leader during the “starving time”
 Pocahontas saved him
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William Penn
English
 Likes Democracy
 Pacifist Quaker
 Religious freedom and being nice to
native Americans
 Pennsylvania
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Roger Williams
English
 Founded Rhode Island
 Treated Native Americans fairly
 Religious freedom
 Separation of Church State
 Kicked out of Mass Bay
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Anne Hutchinson
England
 Banished Mass Bay
 Beyond bible study and have discussion
 Religious freedom
 Went to RI
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John Winthrop
Puritan
 Mass Bay
 Governor
 “City upon a hill” sermon on the mount
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