7058308494 | Jonathan Edwards | An American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian. | 0 | |
7058308495 | George Whitefield | An English Anglican cleric who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. | 1 | |
7058308496 | John Peter Zenger | A German American printer and journalist in New York City. He printed The New York Weekly Journal and was accused of libel in 1734 by the governor of New York. | 2 | |
7058308497 | Phillis Wheatley | The first published African-American female poet. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. | 3 | |
7058308498 | Charles Wilson | Peale An American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution | 4 | |
7058308499 | Benjamin West | An Anglo-American history painter around and after the time of the American War of Independence and the Seven Years' War. | 5 | |
7058308500 | Michel-Guillaume de Crevecour | French settler of America in the 1770s, he posed the question, "What then, is this American?" after seeing people in America like he had never seen before. An American had really become a mixture of many nationalities. | 6 | |
7058308501 | Samuel de Champlain | Founder of New France and Quebec City. "Father of New France" | 7 | |
7058308502 | William Pitt | A British statesman of the Whig group who led the government of Great Britain twice in the middle of the 18th century | 8 | |
7058308503 | James Wolfe | A British Army Officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Canada in 1759 | 9 | |
7058308504 | Edward Braddock | A British officer and commander-in-chief for the 13 colonies during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War | 10 | |
7058308505 | Pontiac | An Odawawar chief who became noted for his role in Pontiac's War (1763-1766), an American Indian struggle against British military occupation of the Great Lakes region | 11 | |
7058308506 | Benjamin Franklin | A Founding Fathers of the United States. Was a renowned author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. | 12 | |
7058308507 | George Washington | Served in the French and Indian War for the British, served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, later presided over the 1787 convention that drafted the United States Constitution and served as the first President of the United States | 13 | |
7058308508 | William Berkeley | A colonial governor of Virginia, and one of the Lords Proprietors of the Colony of Carolina; he was appointed to these posts by King Charles II of England, | 14 | |
7058308509 | Nathaniel Bacon | A colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when he died from dysentery. | 15 | |
7058308510 | Matthew Hopkins | An English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War. | 16 | |
7058308511 | John Calvin | Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism | 17 | |
7058308512 | Anne Hutchinson | American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views | 18 | |
7058308513 | Roger Williams | English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 | 19 | |
7058308514 | Henry Hudson | English navigator who discovered the Hudson River | 20 | |
7058308515 | William Bradford | An English Separatist who in 1620 migrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower. | 21 | |
7058308516 | Peter Stuyvesant | The last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England | 22 | |
7058308517 | Thomas Hooker | A prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts | 23 | |
7058308518 | John Winthrop | An English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony | 24 | |
7058308519 | John Cotton | A clergyman in England and the American colonies and, by most accounts, the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay | 25 | |
7058308520 | Sir Edmund Andros | An English colonial administrator in North America. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. | 26 | |
7058308521 | William and Mary | Joint monarchs of England who came to power with the Glorious Revolution | 27 | |
7058308522 | Myles Standish | Leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony | 28 | |
7058308523 | Martin Luther | German theologian who led the Reformation | 29 | |
7058308524 | Squanto | Known for having been an early liaison between the native populations in Southern New England and the Mayflower settlers | 30 | |
7058308525 | Philip II | King of Spain during 1588. | 31 | |
7058308526 | Pocahontas | A Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life | 32 | |
7058308527 | Powhatan | Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas | 33 | |
7058308528 | John Rolfe | Credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas | 34 | |
7058308529 | Lord Baltimore | George Calvert was the first person to dream of a colony in America where Catholics and Protestants could prosper together | 35 | |
7058308530 | Walter Raleigh | English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia | 36 | |
7058308531 | James Oglethorpe | The founder of the colony of Georgia. | 37 | |
7058308532 | Oliver Cromwell | English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War | 38 | |
7058308533 | John Smith | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas | 39 | |
7058308534 | John Wesley | English clergyman and founder of Methodism | 40 | |
7058308535 | Francis Drake | English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada | 41 | |
7058308536 | William Penn | Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania | 42 | |
7058308537 | Elizabeth I | Queen of England from 1558 to 1603 | 43 | |
7058308538 | Philip II | King of Spain and Portugal and husband of Mary I; he supported the Counter Reformation and sent the Spanish Armada to invade England | 44 | |
7058308539 | James I | The first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 | 45 | |
7058308540 | Charles I | Son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell | 46 | |
7058308541 | Charles II | King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration | 47 | |
7058308542 | Lord De la Warr | An Englishman who came to America in 1610. He brought the Indians in the Jamestown area a declaration of war from the Virginia Company. This began the four year Anglo-Powhatan War. He brought in brutal "Irish tactics" to use in battle. | 48 | |
7058308543 | Oliver Cromwell | Englishman, led the army to overthrow King Charles I and was successful in 1646. Cromwell ruled England in an almost dictatorial style until his death. His uprising drew English attention away from Jamestown and the other American colonies | 49 | |
7058308544 | Juan Ponce de Leon | In 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth | 50 | |
7058308545 | Hernando de Soto | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico | 51 | |
7058308546 | Montezuma | Aztec emperor of Mexico, famous for his dramatic confrontation with the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortes. | 52 | |
7058308547 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China | 53 | |
7058308548 | Herman Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico | 54 | |
7058308549 | Francisco Coronado | A Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas | 55 | |
7058308550 | Robert de La Salle | French explorer who explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico | 56 | |
7058308551 | Jacques Cartier | French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France | 57 | |
7058308552 | John Cabot | Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland | 58 | |
7058308553 | Ferdinand of Aragon | The king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella | 59 | |
7058308554 | Isabella of Castile | The queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain | 60 | |
7058308555 | Hiawatha | A Native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers | 61 | |
7058308556 | Marco Polo | Italian explorer who spent many years in China or near it. His return to Europe in 1295 sparked a European interest in finding a quicker route to Asia | 62 | |
7058308557 | Francisco Pizarro | New World conqueror or Spanish conquistador who crushed the Incan civilization in Peru, took their gold and silver, and enslaved the Incas in 1532. | 63 | |
7058308558 | Vasco Nuñez Balboa | European discoverer of the Pacific Ocean in 1513. | 64 | |
7058308559 | Ferdinand Magellan | In 1519, his crew began a voyage and eventually ended up becoming the first to circumnavigate the world, even though he died in the Philippines. | 65 | |
7058308560 | Bartolomé de Las Casas | A Spanish missionary who was appalled by the method of encomienda systems, calling it "a moral pestilence invented by Satan." | 66 |
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