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Gr 4 History Ch 6
Ch 6 New Names
Term | Definition |
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Dutch | people who live in the Netherlands; claimed the southern part of New York |
Henry Hudson | Dutch explorer sent to find a shortcut to Asia; found New York instead |
Samuel de Champlain | man who explored norther New York and claimed it for France |
Peter Stuyvesant | Dutch governor of New Netherland who finally surrendered to the British |
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley | men who gave New Jersey its name |
Quakers | religious group that settled in Pennsylvania |
William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania who carefully planned the city of Philadelphia |
James Oglethorpe | man who founded the colony of Georgia for prisoners and poor people from England |
George Whitefield | preacher who established the first orphanage in America |