Led Puritans to America in 1630 and was elected the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Described it as a "City upon a Hill."
John Winthrop
Regarded as the savior of the Jamestown colony by establishing military discipline
John Smith
Sponsored three voyages to the North Carolina coast; one of those voyages ended in the "Lost Colony."
Walter Raleigh
Preacher of Great Awakening whose sermon "Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God"
Jonathan Edwards
English farmer whose experiments with tobacco produced a staple crop for Jamestown to sell
John Rolfe
Protestant theologian who preached that God was omnipotent and that humans were corrupt; established a model community in Geneva
John Calvin
Led Parliamentary forces in civil war against the king and proclaimed a republican commonwealth. Was the Lord Protector of England until his death in 1658
Oliver Cromwell
In 1676 led backswoodmen against Indian tribes and then, in an attempt to overthrow the elite government in Virginia, burned Jamestown; died suddenly
Nathaniel Bacon
Led Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower to settle Plymouth
William Bradford
Tried and expelled from Massachusetts for claiming to have experienced direct revelations from God and for arguing that God's grace determined salvation not good deeds
Anne Hutchinson
Restoration king who rewarded his followers with proprietorships in North America
Charles II
Expelled the Moors from Western Europe, launched the Inquisition, and sponsored Columbus' voyages to find a new route to China
Ferdinand and Isabella
Ruler who united Scotland and England; granted a charter to the Virginia Company
James I
Ascended to the throne during the Glorious Revolution; agreed to the role of a constitutional monarch; and accepted a Declaration of Rights that limited the monarch's powers and increased parliament's powers
William and Mary
King who was overthrown and executed during the English Civil War
Charles I
Original proprietor of New York who was overthrown during the Glorious Revolution of 1688
James II
Mesmerizing speaker who preached throughout the colonies during the Great Awakening
George Whitefield
Governor of Virginia who was briefly overthrown during Bacon's Rebellion
William Berkeley
Self-made inventor, printer and writer who epitomized the Enlightenment in America
Benjamin Franklin
Led a group of Puritans to Hartford to found what would become the Connecticut colony
Thomas Hooker
Chased out of Massachusetts for arguing that there should be separation of church and state and that the settlers should pay Indians for their land; founded Rhode Island
Roger Williams
United native tribes in New England to lead a war to try to expel the settlers from the area in 1675
Metacom or King Philip
Enlightenment philosopher who wrote that the government derived its power from "the consent of the governed."
John Locke
Founder of Pennsylvania who regarded his colony as a "Holy Experiment" in religious freedom
William Penn
Philanthropist who led settlers in founding Georgia in 1732
James Oglethorpe
Led an uprising in New York against the Anglo-Dutch ruling elite after the Glorious Revolution, but was later executed
Jacob Leisler
Founded a Chesapeake colony to provide a haven of religious freedom for Catholics
Lord Baltimore
Governor of New Netherlands who surrendered to the British
Peter Stuyvesant
Royal Governor over the Dominion of New England
Edmund Andros
British Prime Minister who instituted the policy of Salutary Neglect
Robert Walpole
Ottawa chief who led Indians in a series of attacks along the frontier in 1763
Pontiac
Led a band of Scots-Irish farmers in attacking Indians along the Pennsylvania frontier in defiance of the pacifist Quaker laws
Paxton Boys
Movement of backcountry farmers who rebelled against corrupt eastern officials
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