To his dying day he thought he had discovered a route to the Indies.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
He was the leader of early Jamestown.
Who is Captain John Smith?
100
These Indians captured John Williams from Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1704.
Who are the (Caughnawaga) Mohawks?
100
He famously declared, "For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill."
Who is John Winthrop?
100
She was the first published woman in New England.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
200
This early critic of Spanish colonization had a father and three uncles who sailed with Columbus.
Who is Bartoleme de Las Casas?
200
A Separatist, he succeeded John Carver as governor of Plymouth and wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation."
Who is William Bradford?
200
According to John Smith, this Indian chief said, "What will it avail you to take that by force you may quickly have by love, or to destroy them that provide you food?"
Who is Powhatan?
200
This Northampton, Massachusetts minister wrote a famous passage that included the image of God holding sinners over the pit of Hell, "as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
200
This author's bestselling narrative of her captivity during King Philip's War was published in five editions within its first year of publication.
Who is Mary White Rowlandson?
300
This Frenchman and founder of Quebec explored the St. Lawrence River and later served as governor of Quebec.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
300
The Puritans arrested this author of "New English Canaan" for selling guns to the Indians and sent him back to England where he was acquitted. He soon returned to Plymouth, but had to sail back to England after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Who is Thomas Morton?
300
In this war, the Algonquian tribes allied under the Wampanoag chief Metacom (or Metacomet) aimed to destroy British settlements.
What is King Philip's War?
300
The name of John Winthrop's sermon aboard the Arbella.
What is "A Model of Christian Charity"?
300
In addition to two spiritual autobiographies, this Catholic saint is said to have written nearly 20,000 letters from New France, many of them to her son.
Who is Marie Guyart Martin, or Marie de l'Incarnation?
400
This Italian sailor was the first European to explore South America.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
This early advocate for the separation of church and state founded the city of Providence when he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony for his unorthodox views.
Who is Roger Williams?
400
In 1609, Champlain joined the Hurons in a campaign against this New York group of Native Americans, making the latter long-term enemies of the French.
Who are the Iroquois?
400
This Puritan minister famously argued during the Salem witch trials that it were better that ten witches should go free than the blood of a single innocent be shed.
Who is Increase Mather?
400
This Massachusetts minister wrote poetry modeled after John Donne, but refused its publication and requested that his family refrain from publishing it posthumously.
Who is Edward Taylor?
500
Twenty years after the fact, this Spaniard -- a private soldier in the famous Coronado expedition of 1540-1542 -- wrote about the conquistadors' exploits in modern day Mexico.
Who is Pedro de Castaneda?
500
He was placed under arrest by expedition leaders on the way to Virginia.
Who is Captain John Smith?
500
Roger Williams' "A Key into the Language of America" was in part an introduction to this Native American people's language.
Who are the Narragansetts?
500
He was the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who later publicly renounced his judgment.
Who is Samuel Sewall?
500
His 1708 poem, "The Sot-Weed Factor," mocked the get-rich-quick-minded settlers and bumpkin laborers of New England.