Congregational minster who reaped a harvest of souls by reemphasizing the traditional Puritan doctrines of humanity's utter deptravity and God's vengeful omnipotence.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
100
Facing both the old war debt and the continuing cost of stationing British troops in America, he proposed the Revenue Act of 1767.
Who is Charles Townshend?
100
Wrote a firsthand account of the slave trade and the Middle Passsage.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
100
Author of "Common Sense."
Who is Thomas Paine?
100
America's first vice-president.
Who is John Adams?
200
Wrote her husband, "I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors."
Who is Abigail Adams?
200
Prime minister for King George from 1770 to 1782 and was responsible for promulgating the Tea Act of 1773.
Who is Lord Frederick North?
200
Northern slave who wrote poetry about freedom for slaves and had her poems published in London in 1773.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
200
America's first secretary of state.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Authored the Virginia Resolves in response to the Stamp Act.
Who is Patrick Henry?
300
Anglican minister and an itinerant evangelist who revived the faith of thousands of British North Americans in the 1740s.
Who is George Whitefield?
300
Initiated the Sugar Act as a way to raise revenue to offset the costs of the Seven Years' War.
Who is George Grenville?
300
Nearly monopolized the Old Calabar slave trade in the early 1760s but fell to his African rivals in 1767.
Who is Grandy King George?
300
Much-hated royal governor of Massachusetts in the 1770s.
Who is Thomas Hutchinson?
300
Published "Poor Richard's Almanack" and served the Patriot cause as American ambassador to France.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
Female soldier who used this name in order to fight in the Continental Army.
Who is Robert Shurtliff?
400
Prime Minister who committed massive resources to winning the Seven Years' War.
Who is William Pitt?
400
Refused to pay Massachusetts taxes for three years on the grounds that he could not vote and so was not represented.
Who is Paul Cuffe?
400
Captain of the unit of British soldiers that fired into a Boston mob on March 5, 1770 killing five--from then on known in Patriot circles as the "Boston Massacre."
Who is Thomas Preston?
400
Drew up the Bill of Rights--the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
500
Pennsylvania and New Jersey Great Awakening minister who claimed he raised his son from the dead.
Who is William Tennent?
500
Ordered the stationing of several thousand British troops in the colonies after the Seven Years' War.
Who is the Earl of Bute?
500
Charged his master with assault and battery, arguing that he was a free man under the Massachusetts constitution's assertion that "all men are born free and equal."
Who is Quok Walker?
500
Led a contingent of British troops to Concord, Massachusetts in order to confiscate a cache of rebel arms and ammunition hidden there.
Who is Thomas Gage?
500
Proposed a 5 percent import tax and the creation of a national bank to lift the early national government out of debt.