Glossary of ABeka History 11 - Chapter 2 - People
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- (23) John Wycliffe
- Protestant reformer who exposed false doctrines of the Roman church; had the Bible translated into English for the first time in the 14th century.
- (23) William Tyndale
- Protestant reformer who gave England the first printed English Bible in the 16th century
- (23) Henry VIII
- English king who broke England's ties with the Roman church in the 1530's
- (24) John Cabot
- Italian navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America for England in 1497; first explorer in the Modern Age to set foot on the mainland of North America
- (24) Sir Martin Frobisher
- English explorer who was sent in search of the Northwest Passage
- (25?) Sir Francis Drake
- embarked on a three-year voyage that was to make him the first Englishman to sail around the world in 1577
- (26) Sir Humphrey Gilbert
- English sailor who set out for the New World in 1578
- (26) Sir Walter Raleigh
- Englishman who explored the coast of Virginia and North Carolina in 1584; sent colonists to establish a settlement on Chesapeake Bay in 1587
- (26) John White
- Englishman sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish a settlement on Chesapeake Bay; founded the Roanoke colony
- (26) Virginia Dare
- first English child born in the present-day United States
- (27) Captain John Smith
- English adventurer who took charge of the Jamestown colony in 1608 and saved it from destruction
- (28) Powhatan
- powerful indian chief near Jamestown; father of Pocahontas
- (28) John Rolfe
- English settler who married the Indian princess Pocahontas; taught the Virginia colonists how to grow tobacco
- (29) Nathaniel Bacon
- wealthy young plantation owner who insisted that frontiersmen were entitled to the same protection as established colonists in Jamestown; led a rebellion against Governor Berkeley in 1676
- (30) John Robinson
- Separatist pastor of an independent church in Scrooby, England; led a group of about 300 to the Dutch city of Leyden in 1609
- (30) Sir Edwin Sandys
- English Puritan nobleman who helped the Pilgrims secure a patent from the London Company to settle within its Virginia territory
- (32) Squanto
- American Indian who aided the Pilgrims as a guide and interpreter
- (32) William Brewster
- pastor of a Pilgrim congregation when they founded New Plymouth
- (32) John Carver
- first governor of Plymouth colony
- (33) William Bradford
- governor of Plymouth colony for over 30 years; wrote "History of Plymouth Plantation," the first American history book
- (34) Miles Standish
- non-Separatist who served as commander-in-chief of the Pilgrims' military defense force
- (34) John and Priscilla Alden
- influential non-Separatists at Plymouth; John Alden held various political offices
- (35) Charles I
- English king who vowed to rule without Parliament; issued charter for the formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company
- (35) John Winthrop
- wealthy Puritan businessman who served as governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony
- (37) Thomas Hooker
- Puritan pastor who left Massachusetts and helped found Connecticut
- (38) Roger Williams
- Congregationalist minister who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony for disagreeing with Puritans; founded Rhode Island
- (39) Anne Hutchinson
- known as "a woman of ready wit and bold spirit"; she was banished from Massachusetts for disagreeing with Puritan authorities on matters of religion
- (40) Sir Edmund Andros
- English nobleman appointed royal governor over the Dominion of New England
- (40) George, Cecilius, and Leonard Calvert
- English Catholics who carried out the project of colonization in Maryland
- (42) Henry Hudson
- English sea captain who explored the Hudson and Delaware rivers for the Dutch East India Company in 1621
- (42) Peter Minuit
- Dutch colonist who purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for trading goods worth about $24.00
- (43) Peter Stuyvesant
- the feisty Dutch governor of New Amsterdam who stamped his wooden leg and insisted on fighting the English in 1644
- (43) James II
- Duke of York who became king of England; proprietor of the New York colony
- (44) Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley
- two English noblemen who founded New Jersey
- (44) William Penn
- wealth English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania
- (45) James Oglethorpe
- wealthy Englishman who founded Georgia as a refuge for debtor prisoners that wanted to work and pay off their debts