| A | B |
| Columbus | Four expeditions under Ferdinand and Isabelle, wanted to prove the earth is round and find a passage to the indies (spice islands) landed in the bahamas , brought disease |
| Balboa | Sailed to the Isthmusd of Panama and walked across and saw the Pacific |
| Ponce de Leon | explored florida while looking for the fountain of youth |
| Magellan | circum navigated the world/ died in the Philipines, named the pacific ocean |
| Hernan Cortes | conquered the Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizzaro | Conquered the Incas |
| Desoto | Explored from Fla. to the Miss R. |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado | first european to see the grand canyon, explored the swus |
| John Cabot | explored the coast of NewFoundland, voyage was not followed up by England |
| Sir Francis Drake | Pirate that looted Spanish ships going east |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | financed the settlement o Ronanoke Island |
| John Smith | The main leader of Jamestown, credidted with saving jamestown |
| Pochontas | chiefs daughter, saves John Smiths life, marries John Rolfe |
| John Rolfe | farms tobacco/ got from the Indians |
| puritans | wanted to purify the church |
| Separtists | wanted to separate from the church |
| Squanto | help the pilgrims by teaching them how to survive/ crops |
| Willam Bradford | first govenor of Plymouth/ writes the history of Plymouth Plantation |
| John Winthrop | first govenor of massachusettes bay colony, elected beore voyage, wanted the colony to be a city on a hill |
| Roger Willams | founder of Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | disagreed with principles of the puritan church, was banished from Massachusettes |
| Thomas Hooker | took people to conneticut fom boston |
| Metacom | king Philip |
| Charles II | in power when the restoration colonies were founded "restored to the throne" |
| Duke of York | given the land between conneticut amd Delaware where the Dutch were living |
| James II | takes the western and southerm part of new york and creates new jersey |
| Willam Penn | founder of Pennsylavnia |
| James Oglethrope | founder of Georgia |