| A | B |
| John Winthrop | 1st governor of Mass. Bay Colony, establishes General Court |
| Thomas Hooker | Puritan minister, founds Connecticut, weakens power of gov't |
| Roger Williams | Puritan Minister, founds Rhode Island, wants separation of church and state & better treatment of Natives |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan woman with independen views of religion, driven from Mass. Bay Colony |
| Metacom | chief of Wampanoags, loses war with Puritans over land |
| Duke of York | brother of king of England, first proprietor on New York |
| Peter Stuyvesant | last governor of New Netherlands, held total power |
| William Penn | proprietor of Pennsylvania, Quaker tries a "holy experiment" |
| Lord Baltimore | George Calvert, 1st proprietor of Catholic colony at Maryland |
| Nathaniel Bacon | leader of unsuccessful uprising of Virginia baccountry farmers against gov't in Jamestown |
| James Oglethorpe | proprietor of debtor colony at Georgia |
| Jonathan Edwards | New Eng. preacher starts religious movement, Great Awakening |
| Benjamin Franklin | colonial inventor and businessman |