People
Father Kino
Began missions in Arizona.
Quakers
Began the Philadelphia settlement to enjoy religious freedom.
James Oglethorpe
Began the colony of Georgia.
Lord Baltimore
Began the colony of Maryland for Catholics.
Champlain
Began the first permanent French settlement in Quebec on the St. Lawrence River and was the founder of Quebec.
Minuit
Bought Manhattan Island.
Powhatan
Chief of the Algonquins who helped Smith.
John Cabot
Claimed Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Virginia for England.
Hudson
Claimed the Hudson River/New York area for the Dutch.
Cortes
Conquered the Aztecs of Mexico.
Pizarro
Conquered the Incas of Peru.
De Soto
Discovered the Mississippi River.
Balboa
Discovered the pacific Ocean.
Portola
Established San Diego.
Menendez
Established and founded St. Augustine.
Pierre Joseph Celoran
Explored and claimed land in the Ohio Valley for France.
Coronado
Explored southwestern America/United States for Spain and the North American southwest.
Joliet and Marquette
Explored the Mississippi for France.
Cartier
First to explore the St. Lawrence River.
Dias
First to round the Cape of Good Hope.
La Salle
Followed the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
Piralta
Founded Santa Fe.
Father Serra
Founded Spanish California and established missions throughout California.
Pedro Menendez
Founded the Spanish fort city of St. Augustine.
Jean Baptiste de Bienville
Founded the port city of New Orleans.
Magellan
His crew was the first to sail around the world.
Thomas Hooker
Led colonists to Connecticut and founded Hartford.
Marco Polo
Lived in China for twenty years.
Drake
Looted Spanish vessels for England.
Vespucci
Man for whom the New World is named.
Marquette
Priest who explored the Mississippi.
John Smith
Saved the Jamestown colony from destruction and supplied the colony with food and seeds.
Ponce de Leon
Searched for the Fountain of Youth.
John Rolfe
Successfully planted and cured tobacco.
Sir Walter Raleigh
The first English effort at colonizing and settled along the Atlantic coast and supported/planned the Roanoke Island colony.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
The first English effort at colonizing.
Peter Stuyvesant
Was the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam.
Thomas Dale
Was the governor of Jamestown and gave land to men.
William Bradford
Was the leader of the Plymouth colony.
William Penn
Was the proprietor of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
John Mason
Was the proprietor of New Hampshire.
Squanto and Samoset
Were Indians who helped the settlers at Plymouth.
Carteret and Berkeley
Were the proprietors of New Jersey.
Puritans
began the Boston settlement.
White
was the governor of the Roanoke Island colony