European Colonization People

Benjamin Franklin

American colonist inspired by the Enlightenment, he was a printer, author, scientist, and inventor, suggested the Albany Plan of Union

John Smith

Brought order to the Jamestown colony, saving it in 1608

James Oglethorpe

Founder of Georgia

William Penn

Founder of Pennsylvania

John Peter Zenger

Journalist whose court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press

Nathaniel Bacon

Led an uprising of landless frontiersmen because they wanted protection from Native Americans

Hernando Cortes

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)

William and Mary

These people were the king and queen of England after the Glorious Revolution that produced the English Bill of Rights

Sir Walter Raleigh

founder of England's first American colony

Montezuma II

the last Aztec emperor in Mexico who was overthrown and killed by Hernando Cortes