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