| A | B |
|---|
| Jonathan Edwards | 1729 |
| Jonathan Edwards | religion was declinin and he was a minister who helped out the ministry, people came from all over to see him and other men where copying his sermins |
| Nathaniel Bacon | leader of the piedmont planters, he attacked and wiped out Indian villiages despite governer Sit William Berkley, he disappered into the forest and had other attacks on the local tribes, hero in the piedmont and set out to kill more Indians |
| Benjamin Franklin | stopped what could have been a civial war |
| King Philip | leader of New England town; brother died and tought the Pilgrims killed his brother so Indians attacked the Pilgrims |
| George Whitefield | English preacher who visited America; helped make the Great Awakening a religious event |
| George Calvert | "Lord Baltimor;" created titles of nobility in the New World (Maryland); he had vassals to rule over tenants and the Lord would be the cheif magistrate in settling disputes and charged taxes |
| George Calvert | 1682 |
| Richard Hakluyt | 1584 |
| Richard Hakluyt | wrote "Discourse Concerning Western Planting;" natives would be consumers of English manufacturers; the English went w/ this and hoped it would bring wealth |
| John Calvin | reformation period |
| John Calvin | French Protestant reformer; created calvanism humans, all of them were sinful |
| James Oglethorpe | 1732 |
| James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia- haven for English debtors; last British colony established in North America |
| William Bradford | a Prigrim leader who never forgot the reason of why he came to the new world - to find a Godly colony |
| Powhatan | local Indian chief; John Smith's successor couldn't maintain good relationships when him and was the beginning of an Indian War |
| John Rolfe | saved Jamestown; discovered tobacco growing |
| John Smith | kept settlers alive when in bad conditions; negotiated with Powhatan for food |
| Squanto and Massasoit | knew English; local Wampanoags tribe-taught the Pilgrims how to plant and fish; had Thanksgiving |
| William Penn | 1682 |
| William Penn | organizer of bringing Quakers to the New World; he was left claims of English crown and in return gave a large chunk of Americas; planned a city of Philadelphia relations; had good relations with Indians |
| Roger Williams | 1631 |
| Roger Williams | "Father of Rhode Island"; a Puritan minister who fought with Bay colonies religious leaders; in 1635 he was ordered to be arrested and fled to Narragansett Bay |
| Leif Ericsson | 1000AD |
| Leif Ericsson | founder of the Greenland colony; sailed westward to investigate reports; discovered Vinland and Indians drove the settlers home |
| Jacques Cartier | about 1524 |
| Jacques Cartier | explored the coasts of Newfoundland, etc.; gave France claim to Northern North America with Verrazano |
| Henry Hudson | 1609 |
| Henry Hudson | added the Europe's geographical knowledge; sailed down the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Va; sailed in Cape Cod and Delaware |
| Hernando de Soto | about 1650 |
| Hernando de Soto | expeditions along every coast and into bays, etc.; helped with the outlinds of the New World; traveled from Cuba to Florida and discovered Mississippi River |
| Samuel de Champlain | about 1650 |
| Samuel de Champlain | explored in the heartland of North America; helped map out the New World |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | 1524 |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | explored the Carolinas and north to New York and Nova Scotia; gave France claim to parts of N. America; impacted French exploring |
| Christopher Columbus | "Admiral of Ocean Sea"; discovered the major islands into the Carribean and touched mainland Americas; had the 1st perm. settlement in New World |
| Prince Henry of Portugal | "Henry the Navigator"; traveled for medieval and religious purposed; sposered exploration on the W. Coast of Africa - more ships |
