Key Colonial Leaders

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Benjamin Franklin

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Invented the lightning rod and stove;
lead the formation of the Library Company;
introduced Albany Plan;
brought math to the study of demographics;

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George Whitfield

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inspiring preacher during the Great Awakening;
effective public speaker;
symbolized the powerful cultural forces transforming the Atlantic world;
entrepreneur;
published volumes with Franklin;
embraced latest merchandising techniques;

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George Washington

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Constructed Fort Necessity;

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William Pitt

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Effective head of the ministry;
believed he was the only person capable of saving the British empire;
North America was where Britain and Europe was to be fought for;
wanted to expel the French from the continent however great the cost;
took command of the army and navy;
captured Louisbourg and Quebec;
took surrender of French at Montreal;

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John Locke

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Wrote Two Treatises of Government;
claimed that all people possessed natural and inalenable rights.

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William Byrd II

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Successful Tidewater planter;
commissioned to help survey a disputed boundary between North Carolina and Virginia

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Jonathan Edwards

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Puritan theologian and leader of the Great Awakending in New England;
preached that God was omnipotent and the eternal fate of helpless individuals was determined at birth

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Gilbert Tennent

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Revivalist who launched the New Light movement during the Great Awakending with his sermon, "On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry"

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James Davenport

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Fanatical New LIght Preacher who attacked the formally educated through crude emotionalism

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Juan de Onate

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Organizer of first Spanish settlement north of the Rio Grande

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Samuel Adams

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Used publicity to keep revolutionary cause alive;
burning sense of right and wrong

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Patrick Henry

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Introduced the Virginia Resolves which held that Virginians could be taxed only by their own representatives in the colonial assembly