Statistics for Influential People of American History 1

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Queen who began to encourage British exploration in the New World	Queen Elizabeth	92%
Made discoveries about electricity, wrote an almanac, established a fire house, and much more	Benjamin Franklin	80%
Founded Philadelphia as a city for Quakers	William Penn	66%
First European to explore New York Bay	Henry Hudson	57%
Spanish king who sent an armada which was defeated by Britain	King Philip	57%
Leader of the Jamestown settlement	John Smith	49%
Founded Roanoke in present day North Carolina	Sir Walter Raleigh	42%
Bilingual Native American who taught the Puritans to grow corn	Squanto	21%
Founder of Rhode Island who tolerated all religions and respected Native Americans	Roger Williams	13%
Founded Maryland as a refuge for persecuted Catholics	Cecil Calvert (Lord Baltimore)	12%
Founded Georgia in an attempt to create a Socialist utopia	James Oglethorpe	12%
Spoke out against the Church in New England and was exiled	Anne Hutchinson	10%
Slave woman who was the first convicted in the Salem Witch Trials	Tituba	9%
Indentured servant who started a rebellion	Nathaniel Bacon	7%
Freed slave who wrote almanacs	Benjamin Banneker	0%