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36 Cards in this Set
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(23) John Wycliffe
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Protestant reformer who exposed false doctrines of the Roman church; had the Bible translated into English for the first time in the 14th century.
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(23) William Tyndale
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Protestant reformer who gave England the first printed English Bible in the 16th century
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(23) Henry VIII
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English king who broke England's ties with the Roman church in the 1530's
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(24) John Cabot
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Italian navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America for England in 1497; first explorer in the Modern Age to set foot on the mainland of North America
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(24) Sir Martin Frobisher
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English explorer who was sent in search of the Northwest Passage
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(25?) Sir Francis Drake
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embarked on a three-year voyage that was to make him the first Englishman to sail around the world in 1577
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(26) Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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English sailor who set out for the New World in 1578
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(26) Sir Walter Raleigh
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Englishman who explored the coast of Virginia and North Carolina in 1584; sent colonists to establish a settlement on Chesapeake Bay in 1587
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(26) John White
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Englishman sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish a settlement on Chesapeake Bay; founded the Roanoke colony
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(26) Virginia Dare
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first English child born in the present-day United States
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(27) Captain John Smith
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English adventurer who took charge of the Jamestown colony in 1608 and saved it from destruction
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(28) Powhatan
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powerful indian chief near Jamestown; father of Pocahontas
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(28) John Rolfe
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English settler who married the Indian princess Pocahontas; taught the Virginia colonists how to grow tobacco
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(29) Nathaniel Bacon
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wealthy young plantation owner who insisted that frontiersmen were entitled to the same protection as established colonists in Jamestown; led a rebellion against Governor Berkeley in 1676
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(30) John Robinson
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Separatist pastor of an independent church in Scrooby, England; led a group of about 300 to the Dutch city of Leyden in 1609
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(30) Sir Edwin Sandys
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English Puritan nobleman who helped the Pilgrims secure a patent from the London Company to settle within its Virginia territory
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(32) Squanto
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American Indian who aided the Pilgrims as a guide and interpreter
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(32) William Brewster
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pastor of a Pilgrim congregation when they founded New Plymouth
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(32) John Carver
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first governor of Plymouth colony
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(33) William Bradford
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governor of Plymouth colony for over 30 years; wrote "History of Plymouth Plantation," the first American history book
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(34) Miles Standish
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non-Separatist who served as commander-in-chief of the Pilgrims' military defense force
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(34) John and Priscilla Alden
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influential non-Separatists at Plymouth; John Alden held various political offices
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(35) Charles I
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English king who vowed to rule without Parliament; issued charter for the formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company
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(35) John Winthrop
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wealthy Puritan businessman who served as governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony
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(37) Thomas Hooker
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Puritan pastor who left Massachusetts and helped found Connecticut
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(38) Roger Williams
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Congregationalist minister who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony for disagreeing with Puritans; founded Rhode Island
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(39) Anne Hutchinson
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known as "a woman of ready wit and bold spirit"; she was banished from Massachusetts for disagreeing with Puritan authorities on matters of religion
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(40) Sir Edmund Andros
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English nobleman appointed royal governor over the Dominion of New England
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(40) George, Cecilius, and Leonard Calvert
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English Catholics who carried out the project of colonization in Maryland
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(42) Henry Hudson
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English sea captain who explored the Hudson and Delaware rivers for the Dutch East India Company in 1621
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(42) Peter Minuit
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Dutch colonist who purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for trading goods worth about $24.00
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(43) Peter Stuyvesant
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the feisty Dutch governor of New Amsterdam who stamped his wooden leg and insisted on fighting the English in 1644
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(43) James II
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Duke of York who became king of England; proprietor of the New York colony
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(44) Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley
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two English noblemen who founded New Jersey
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(44) William Penn
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wealth English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania
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(45) James Oglethorpe
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wealthy Englishman who founded Georgia as a refuge for debtor prisoners that wanted to work and pay off their debts
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