Important 1-2-3 APUSH People

Henry Hudson

laid the territorial and commercial groundwork for the Dutch colonization of New Netherland and the eventual founding of New York

Samuel de Champlain

French explorer, founded Quebec in 1608. France presence in North America

Sir Walter Raleigh

favorite courtier of Queen Elizabeth I who helped launch the first English attempts to colonize North America, sponsored roanoke

Richard Hakluyt

promoted the colonization of America to expand English trade, weaken rival Catholic Spain, and provide jobs for the poor

Martin Luther

theologian who founded protestantism, saved through faith not work.

Elizabeth I

laid the foundational groundwork for English colonization in North America by authorizing early exploration, challenging Spanish naval dominance, and inspiring the naming of Virginia

James I

granted the royal charters that established England's first permanent overseas settlements

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Claimed Newfoundland, a pioneer of the English colonial empire who laid the groundwork for future British overseas expansion, aggressive commander in Ireland

Sir Francis Drake

the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe between 1577 and 1580, most famous and successful of the Elizabethan Sea Dogs, a group of English privateers authorized by Queen Elizabeth I to raid Spanish ships and settlements between 1560 and 1603

Cotton Mather

Puritan minister and author during Salem Witch Trials, promoted smallpox inoculation.

George Whitefield

an English Anglican priest and Itinerant preacher who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement

John and Charles Wesley

18th-century English Anglican priests who led a massive religious revival and founded the Methodist movement

John Locke

ideas on liberty, government, and human knowledge shaped modern democracy and earned him the title of the "Father of Liberalism"

John Peter Zenger

1735 trial and acquittal for seditious libel became a foundational symbol for and an early milestone in the development of freedom of the press in America

Johnathan Edwards

prominent colonial American preacher, philosopher, and theologian whose leadership in the religious revival helped launch the First Great Awakening

William and Mary

Protestant King and Queen of England after the Glorious Revolution

Sir Edmund Andros

leader of the Dominion of New England

Roger Williams

founded Rhode Island due to wanting separation of Church and State

John Mason

founded New Hampshire

John Smith

was vital through leadership to the survival and early success of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America