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7058308494Jonathan EdwardsAn American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian.0
7058308495George WhitefieldAn English Anglican cleric who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.1
7058308496John Peter ZengerA 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
7058308497Phillis WheatleyThe 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
7058308498Charles WilsonPeale An American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution4
7058308499Benjamin WestAn Anglo-American history painter around and after the time of the American War of Independence and the Seven Years' War.5
7058308500Michel-Guillaume de CrevecourFrench 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
7058308501Samuel de ChamplainFounder of New France and Quebec City. "Father of New France"7
7058308502William PittA British statesman of the Whig group who led the government of Great Britain twice in the middle of the 18th century8
7058308503James WolfeA 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 17599
7058308504Edward BraddockA British officer and commander-in-chief for the 13 colonies during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War10
7058308505PontiacAn 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 region11
7058308506Benjamin FranklinA Founding Fathers of the United States. Was a renowned author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.12
7058308507George WashingtonServed 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 States13
7058308508William BerkeleyA 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
7058308509Nathaniel BaconA colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when he died from dysentery.15
7058308510Matthew HopkinsAn English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War.16
7058308511John CalvinSwiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism17
7058308512Anne HutchinsonAmerican colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views18
7058308513Roger WilliamsEnglish 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 166319
7058308514Henry HudsonEnglish navigator who discovered the Hudson River20
7058308515William BradfordAn English Separatist who in 1620 migrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower.21
7058308516Peter StuyvesantThe last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England22
7058308517Thomas HookerA prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts23
7058308518John WinthropAn English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony24
7058308519John CottonA clergyman in England and the American colonies and, by most accounts, the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay25
7058308520Sir Edmund AndrosAn English colonial administrator in North America. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence.26
7058308521William and MaryJoint monarchs of England who came to power with the Glorious Revolution27
7058308522Myles StandishLeader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony28
7058308523Martin LutherGerman theologian who led the Reformation29
7058308524SquantoKnown for having been an early liaison between the native populations in Southern New England and the Mayflower settlers30
7058308525Philip IIKing of Spain during 1588.31
7058308526PocahontasA Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life32
7058308527PowhatanIndian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas33
7058308528John RolfeCredited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas34
7058308529Lord BaltimoreGeorge Calvert was the first person to dream of a colony in America where Catholics and Protestants could prosper together35
7058308530Walter RaleighEnglish courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia36
7058308531James OglethorpeThe founder of the colony of Georgia.37
7058308532Oliver CromwellEnglish general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War38
7058308533John SmithEnglish explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas39
7058308534John WesleyEnglish clergyman and founder of Methodism40
7058308535Francis DrakeEnglish explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada41
7058308536William PennEnglishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania42
7058308537Elizabeth IQueen of England from 1558 to 160343
7058308538Philip IIKing of Spain and Portugal and husband of Mary I; he supported the Counter Reformation and sent the Spanish Armada to invade England44
7058308539James IThe first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 162545
7058308540Charles ISon of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell46
7058308541Charles IIKing of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration47
7058308542Lord De la WarrAn 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
7058308543Oliver CromwellEnglishman, 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 colonies49
7058308544Juan Ponce de LeonIn 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth50
7058308545Hernando de SotoSpanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico51
7058308546MontezumaAztec emperor of Mexico, famous for his dramatic confrontation with the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortes.52
7058308547Christopher ColumbusItalian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China53
7058308548Herman CortesSpanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico54
7058308549Francisco CoronadoA Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas55
7058308550Robert de La SalleFrench explorer who explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico56
7058308551Jacques CartierFrench explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France57
7058308552John CabotItalian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland58
7058308553Ferdinand of AragonThe king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella59
7058308554Isabella of CastileThe queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain60
7058308555HiawathaA Native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers61
7058308556Marco PoloItalian 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 Asia62
7058308557Francisco PizarroNew World conqueror or Spanish conquistador who crushed the Incan civilization in Peru, took their gold and silver, and enslaved the Incas in 1532.63
7058308558Vasco Nuñez BalboaEuropean discoverer of the Pacific Ocean in 1513.64
7058308559Ferdinand MagellanIn 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
7058308560Bartolomé de Las CasasA Spanish missionary who was appalled by the method of encomienda systems, calling it "a moral pestilence invented by Satan."66

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