Chapters 1-8 People

Question 1

Amengo Vespucci

Answer 1

Cartographer (map maker); America named after him; FIRST person to realize America was a NEW continent.

Question 2

Queen Elizabeth I of England

Answer 2

1558-1603; “The Virgin Queen”; never married; “The Protestant Queen”

Question 3

Richard Hakluyt

Answer 3

1589: The Principal Navigations

Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation

Question 4

John Rolfe

Answer 4

Introduced Tobacco into the Southern Colonies.

Married Pocahontas ending the Anglo- Powhatan war.

Question 5

Captain John Smith

Answer 5

Virginia: “if you don’t work you don’t eat”

Question 6

William Penn

Answer 6

Quaker in Pennsylvania

Question 7

Roger Williams

Answer 7

Fled from Rhode Island from Massachusetts. Buy the land from the natives.

Question 8

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 8

Questioned church authorities; fled from Massachusetts to Rhode Island; Had 15 children; 1643 her and kids killed by natives.

Question 9

King Philip of the Wampanoag tribe

Answer 9

Native Name: Metaconet
1675: his tribe was forced to work for the Puritans and follow their law
“King Philips War” he led attack on Puritans. Heavy casualties both sides.
Natives lose; and his head cut off.

Question 10

Nathaniel Bacon

Answer 10

Frontier
Attacked by Natives.
Demands that governor sir Williams Berkley send help. He said no.
Bacon led an attack on Jamestown.

Question 11

Henry Hudson

Answer 11

Claims New York and New Jersey.

Dutch

Question 12

Increase Mather

Answer 12

Salem Massachusetts 1692
Town leader
Wife accused of witch craft

Question 13

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 13

First attempt to unify colonies with Albany Plan in 1754.
Send delegates to Albany to chose a Grand Council.
Colonies refused.

Question 14

General Edward Braddock

Answer 14

66 years old, womanizer, obese.
2500 men including George Washington. 
George went to learn from Braddock. 
70% killed or wounded including Braddock. 
Defeat exposed Frontier.

Question 15

Jane Frazier

Answer 15

Pregnant; married to John Frazier.
Kidnapped by Miami Indians and they took her to the other side of Ohio. Food was scarce. Baby died. White male also held captive. Saved food and ran towards sunrise. Made it to Fort Ashby. Gone 18 months. John remarried but ended it when he found Jane.

Question 16

William Pitt

Answer 16

In charge of British Army.

Promoted young officers over superiors.

Question 17

Jeffery Amherst

Answer 17

September 8 accepts French surrender.

Question 18

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 18

Massachusetts evangelist. Encouraged people to question church authorities. Nondenominational. Swept through colonies.

Question 19

George Whitefield

Answer 19

More popular dramatic nondenominational evangelist. Encouraged people to question church authorities. Swept through colonies.

Question 20

King George the 3rd

Answer 20

1760-1820 22 years old
Not highly educated
Attempted to ignore Parliament. Wants to go back to absolute power.

Question 21

Pontiac

Answer 21

1763- led attack on the frontier

British army doesn’t help.

Question 22

John Locke

Answer 22

1690. Two treaties of government. 
Natural and inalienable rights. 
Life Liberty and property.
Humans by nature are good. 
No need for all powerful government.

Question 23

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 23

Thinks humans are evil by nature. They need an all powerful government. Divine Right.

Question 24

George Grenville

Answer 24

Chancellor of Exchaquer (minister of finance) enforces navigation acts.

Question 25

George Washington

Answer 25

Try’s to learn from Braddock.
Originally a farmer
Becomes commander of the continental army.

Question 26

Thomas Paine

Answer 26

Publishes “Common Sense”
January 1776- 120,000 copies. It’s common sense that we be independent from Britain. It’s not our mother country. Puts it all in words.

Question 27

General Montgomery and Benedict Arnold

Answer 27

Invaded Canada in fall of 1775
Was thinking a 14th colony?
Wanted to deprive England from a base. Montgomery killed. Arnold injured.

Question 28

Richard Henry Lee

Answer 28

June 7,1776
Proposed in continental congress that we should be independent and be official. Committee declared that a document should be written.

Question 29

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 29

Wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Question 30

Lafayette

Answer 30

Hung copy of Declaration of Independence off center to wait for a French Declaration of Independence.
*The Declaration of Independence was an example for the rest of the world. *

Question 31

George Rogers Clark

Answer 31

Drives the British out of forts in Indiana and Illinois. “The Bloody Years” on the frontier. (1778-1779)

Question 32

General Cornwallis

Answer 32

1781 took his army to Yorktown- Rendezvous the British Navy supplies.

Question 33

Marquis Lafayette

Answer 33

Contacts Admiral De Grassa in the carribean for him to bring his fleet to Chesapeake Bay.

Question 34

Ben Franklin, John Adams, John Jay

Answer 34

In Europe for the treaty. They were supposed to wait for France but John Jay went ahead without them.

Question 35

Christopher Columbus

Answer 35

Took 4 trips to America. Tried to find an all water trade route.

Question 36

Lord Baltimore

Answer 36

Formed Maryland in 1634

Question 37

Francis Drake

Answer 37

Circumnavigated the globe.

Question 38

Martin Luther

Answer 38

denounced the authority of the priests and popes

Question 39

John Calvin

Answer 39

Elaborated Martin Luthers ideas.

Published: Institutes of the Christian Religion

Question 40

Captain Myles Standish

Answer 40

Captain of the Mayflower

Led the group of separatists from holland to Plymouth bay.

Question 41

William Bradford-

Answer 41

elected 30 times as governor of the Pilgrims in the annual elections; a self-taught scholar who read Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and Dutch; Pilgrim leader.