| A | B |
| Martin Luther | Ninety-five thesis nailed to Roman Catholic Church |
| Guttenburg | invented moveable-type printing press |
| Francis Drake | first Englishman to sail around the world |
| John Rolfe | intoduced tobacco crop to colonists |
| John Cabot | 1st modern European explorer to set foot on North America |
| John Winthrop | frist govenor of Mass. Bay colony |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of Connecticut |
| William Penn | founder of Pennsylvania |
| Count von Zinzendorf | founded the city of Bethlehem, PA |
| Wilderness Road | westward trail that the pioneers blazed |
| hornbook | paddle-shaped board used to teach children to read |
| bicameral | legislature composed of 2 houses |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin's book written yearly |
| Great Awakening | revival that took place in America |
| General Braddock | Led British troops at Ft. Duquesne |
| Swedes | introduced log cabins to new world |
| William Bradford | wrote History of Plymouth Plantation |
| Jamestown | first English settlement in the New World |
| Cotton Mather | intoduced smallpox vacine |
| frontier | sparsely populated land on the edge of a settlement |