Important New World Peeps

Christopher Columbus  Sailed for Spain  Route to Asia  Explorer, colonizer, navigator  European “awareness” of American Continent

Jacques Marquette  French missionary  Michigan’s first European settlement  Mapped parts of the Mississippi River  Father Marquette

Henry Hudson  From England  Explorer and Navigator  Hudson River  Looking for the Northwest Passage  Mutiny

John Smith  England  Explorer, Soldier and author  Jamestown Virginia  Leader during the “starving time”  Pocahontas saved him

William Penn  English  Likes Democracy  Pacifist Quaker  Religious freedom and being nice to native Americans  Pennsylvania

Roger Williams  English  Founded Rhode Island  Treated Native Americans fairly  Religious freedom  Separation of Church State  Kicked out of Mass Bay

Anne Hutchinson  England  Banished Mass Bay  Beyond bible study and have discussion  Religious freedom  Went to RI

John Winthrop  Puritan  Mass Bay  Governor  “City upon a hill” sermon on the mount