ABeka History 11 - Chapter 4 - People
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- John and Charles Wesley
- English ministers who founded the Methodist denomination
- Jonathan Edwards
- Congregationalist minister in Northampton, Massachusetts, who sparked the Great Awakening; colonial America's foremost theologian and one of America's greatest intellects.
- George Whitefield
- English evangelist remembered as the most powerful voice of the Great Awakening.
- Phillis Wheatley
- the first black female writer in America
- David Brainerd
- the best-known missionary to the Indians
- Governor Dinwiddie
- governor of Virginia during the French and Indian War
- George Washington
- young surveyor and officer in the Virginia militia; fought alongside British troops in the French and Indian War
- Benjamin Franklin
- proposed the Albany Plan
- General Braddock
- English general who tried to fight the French and Indians in a European manner against Washington's advice and died in a failed attempt to capture Fort Duquesne
- William Pitt the Elder
- became prime minister of England in 1757; his leadership brought victory for the British in the French and Indian War
- General James Wolfe
- led British troops to victory at the Battle of Quebec