Important People

There were a lot of important people in the history of the US, the following are examples: Anne Hutchinson who became the leader of a dissident church discussion group. Benjamin Franklin who as a scientist was a major leader in the American Enlightenment. Congregationalists were church protestant who run their own affairs. George Whitefield was an English anglican priest who helped spread the Great Awakening. Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. John Smith was an astronomer of the early seventeenth century. Jonathan Edwards was a  preacher, theologian, and missionary to the Native Americans, he also influenced the Enlightenment.  The Pilgrims were the people who considered them selves as people that were going to heaven. Pocahontas was the peacemaker between the native New settlers and her father Powhatan. The Powhatan Confederacy was the confederacy that Powhatan created to protect his tribe. The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants.Roger Williams was an English Protestant who proposed of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. Sir Walter Raleigh was a writer, poet, soldier, and aristocrat who was well know for popularizing tobacco in England. Finally Separatists which was the advocacy of separating people based on religion, ethnicity, gender, race, etc. This are the important people from the history of the US.