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Week 2 Significant People

John Smith

  • Explorer
  • Early Leader of Jamestown colony
  • Trained 1st settlers to farm
  • Jamestown survived bc of Smith's leadership

*What do you think would have happened to Jamestown without John Smith?

John Winthrop

  • Puritan
  • Lawyer
  • Help found Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • Governor of Massachusetts for 12 years
  • Influenced colonial development, governments, and religions

*How did John Winthrop contribute to colonial life?

John Rolfe

  • Early English settler
  • First successful tobacco crop established in the New World
  • Married Pocahontas which created a peaceful climate between the Native Americans and the colonists.

*What impact did the tobacco crop have on the colony of Virginia?

William Bradford

  • Massachusetts colony
  • Signed the Mayflower Compact
  • Served at the Plymouth Colony Governor
  • Traveled to the New World on the Mayflower

*How did William Bradford contribute to the colonies?

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