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Johann Gutenberg
• Invented printing press in 1456
John Cabot
• 1497 Sailed south of long island sound
Giovanni da Verrazano
• sailed to New York harbor 1524
Vasco Nunez de balboa
• 1513 first to see pacific ocean
• Hernando Cortes conquered Mexico
• Francisco Pizzaro seized Peru
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
• 1540 explored southwest
Juan ponce de Leon
• 1521 explored Florida
Jacques Cartier
• 1534 explored the St. Lawrence gulf
Jean ribault
• 1562 explored Atlantic coast
Sir Walter Raleigh
• 1584 queen Elizabeth gives permission to establish a colony along Atlantic coast
Toleration act
• 1649 allowed Christians to practice their religion freely
Oliver Cromwell
• puritan government repealed the act
John Locke
• wrote aristocratic constitution for colony
General jammed Oglethorpe
• England reformer – Georgia
Mayflower compact- and agreement that provided the colony with a government
• Under William Bradford
John Winthrop
• One of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
• Rejected tolerance
• 1636 Separated church and state
• Baptist church
John Calvin
• Protestant reformer
Thomas hooker
• Puritan minister
• Led a group into the Connecticut valley
• Found Hartford
John Peter Zenger
• printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City. His indictment, trial and acquittal on sedition and libel charges against the Governor William Cosby of the New York Colony in 1735
Andrew Hamilton
• zingers attorney
• argued zenger was not liable if he told the truth
George Fox
• rejected formal hierarchical religion of...
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