Settlements in the New World
The Early Colonial Era: The Earliest European Explorers
and the First Settlements.
Jamestown
Plymouth Plantation
New England: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Vermont, and Maine: The Puritans
Virginia and Maryland: The Royalists and George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Eastern New Jersey: The Quakers
Settling Appalachia: Virginia, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina
and Georgia--The Scotch-Irish
Pennsylvania: German Immigrants--The Pennsylvania Dutch
New York: Dutch Immigrants of New Netherlands
North and South Carolina: The Proprietors
Georgia: James Oglethorpe’s Ideals
Native American Tribes
African-American Slaves
Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Patriot and Wife of President John Adams
John Adams (1735-1826)
American Patriot and Statesman, "The Atlas of Independence": Co-Author of the
Declaration of Independence, First Ambassador of the U.S. To Great Britain, and
Second President of the United States
Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
American Patriot, Journalist, and Statesman Who Rallied the Colonists to the
Cause of the American Revolution
Ethan Allen (1738-1789)
American Revolutionary War Hero and Leader of the Green Mountain Boys
Benedict Arnold (1741-1801)
American Military Officer Who Betrayed the Revolutionary Cause
Crispus Attucks (1723?-1770)
African-American Patriot and First Person Killed at the Boston Massacre
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
American Patriot, Statesman, Printer, and Inventor, Member of the Continental
Congress, Co-Author of the Declaration of Independence, Ambassador to France,
and Delegate to the Constitutional Convention
Nathanael Greene (1742-1786)
American Patriot and Military Leader
Nathan Hale (1755-1776)
American Patriot and Revolutionary War Hero
Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)
West-Indian Born American Patriot and Politician, First Secretary of the Treasury
John Hancock (1737-1793)
American Patriot, Statesman, and Merchant; First President of the Continental
Congress and First Governor of Massachusetts
Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
American Patriot, Orator, and Statesman, Famous for His Speech Stating "Give Me
Liberty or Give Me Death!"
John Jay (1745-1829)
American Patriot, Diplomat, Writer, and Jurist, Negotiated the Peace Treaty Ending
the Revolutionary War, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
American Patriot and Statesman, "The Father of the Declaration of Independence",
Diplomat, and Third President of the United States
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
French Officer Who Served in the American Revolution
Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794)
American Patriot and Statesman, Introduced Resolution Declaring American
Independence
Dolley Madison (1768-1849)
American Patriot and First Lady
James Madison (1751-1836)
American Patriot and Statesman, "The Father of
the Constitution" and Fourth President of the United States
John Marshall (1755-1835)
American Patriot and Jurist, Fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
James Monroe (1758-1831)
American Patriot and Statesman, Fifth President of the United States, "Last of the
Cocked Hats"
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
English-born American Patriot and Author of Common Sense and Other Works
Supporting the American Revolution
Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) (1754-1832)
American Patriot and Revolutionary War Heroine
Paul Revere (1735-1818)
American Patriot and Colonial Craftsman, Famous for his "Midnight Ride" to
Alert Boston Colonists to the British Invasion
Betsy Ross (1752-1836)
American Patriot and Businesswoman, Believed to Be the Person Who Sewed the
First American Flag
Mercy Warren (1728-1814)
American Patriot, Writer, and Historian
George Washington (1732-1799)
American Patriot, Military Leader, and Statesman, Commander-in-Chief of the
Continental Army, First President of the United States, "The Father of His Country"
Martha Washington (1732-1802)
American Patriot and First Lady
Phillis Wheatley (1753? - 1784)
African-American Patriot and Poet
