JOHN
​WINTHROP

MASSACHUSETTS
​(1588-1649)

• founds Massachusetts Bay Colony and Boston as a "city upon a hill"

ROGER 
​WILLIAMS

RHODE ISLAND
(1603-1683)

• founded Rhode Island as a colony of religious freedom

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ANNE 
​HUTCHENSON

RHODE ISLAND
​(1591-1643)

• banished to Rhode Island for championing religious freedom

WILLIAM PENN

PENNSYLVANIA
(1644-1718)

• ​Quaker who founds Pennsylvania and Philadelphia as a "holy experiment"

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BENJAMIN 
FRANKLIN 

PENNSYLVANIA
(1706-1790)

• ​an Enlightened American scientist, inventor and diplomat 
• invented bifocals lightening rod, & Poor Richard's Almanac among others

JONATHAN 
EDWARDS & 
GEORGE 
​WHITEFIELD

NEW ENGLAND
​(1703-1758) (1714-1770)

• helped start the religious revival known as the 1st Great Awakening
  
• Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"