Samuel de Champlain – first explored New York for France

John Clark – went to England to get Rhode Island’s charter

Christopher Dock – a famous Mennonite school teacher who greatly changed discipline

methods used in schools

Benjamin Franklin – designed the American rocking chair

Obadiah Holmes – moved away from Massachusetts so he could have religious liberty, he

was beaten with a whip for preaching the gospel

Thomas Hooker – settled the city of Hartford, Connecticut

Henry Hudson – explored New York for the Dutch

John Mason – named his colony New Hampshire

James Oglethorpe – founded Georgia

William Penn – personally designed the main settlement of Pennsylvania

George Whitefield – started America’s first orphanage

Roger Williams – missionary and friend to the Indians, set up his own colony

John Winthrop – governed Massachusetts honestly and fairly

Connecticut – this colony’s name came from an Indian word

Savannah – first settlement in Georgia

New Netherland – where the Dutch first settled

Rhode Island – colony’s charter guaranteed complete religious freedom

Pennsylvania – founded to be a refuge for Quakers

Harvard – America’s first college

The New England Primer – used by millions of children for over 150 years

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut – served later as a pattern for the Constitution

indigo – valuable blue dye produced in the Southern Colonies

corn – chief food crop in the colonies