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Question | Answer |
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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 | Regulators |