ACPUSH - Important people to know for midterm

Richard Hakluyt

an English writer and geographer whose influential publications promoted English colonization of North America

Powhatan

chief of a powerful alliance of Algonquian-speaking tribes in early 17th century Virginia

George Whitefield

English Anglican minister and evangelist who played a major role in sparking the First Great Awakening

John Locke

English philosopher known for his ideas on natural rights and the social contract

King George III

King of Great Britain during American Revolution

George Washington

Commander-of-Chief of the Continental Army and the first president of the United States

Lord Dunmore

The Royal Governor of Virginia who issued a 1775 proclamation offering freedom to enslaved people who escaped to fight for the British army

James Madison

fourth president of the United States and founding father

Sally Hemmings

enslaved mixed-race woman owned by Thomas Jefferson who also shared children with him

Andrew Jackson

seventh president of the United States and influenced the rise of Jacksonian democracy

Henry Clay

an influential 19th-century American statesman, lawyer, and Kentucky congressman known as the "Great Compromiser" or "Great Pacificator" for his work defusing severe sectional crises over slavery.

Harriet Jacobs

American abolitionist, reformer, and writer

David Walker

American abolitionist, anti-slavery activist, and writer