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