1. Chapter 7: Road To Revolution
People

2. Nathaniel Bacon
In 1676 he led an army of angry Virginia farmers, chased the governor out of Jamestown and set fire to the town.

3. John Peter Zenger
Newspaper publisher who was arrested and put on trial by New York governor William Cosby for Libel. His acquittal increased freedom of speech in the colonies.

4. Andrew Hamilton
Philadelphia lawyer that successfully defended Peter Zenger arguing “if its not a lie, its not libel.”
Andrew Hamilton was a Philadelphia lawyer

5. Governor William Cosby
Royal Governor of New York Colony that arrested Peter Zenger on libel charges.

6. Reverend George Whitefield
Great Awakening preacher who spoke to crowds of tens of thousands.

7. Reverend Jonathon Edwards
Great Awakening preacher who wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

8. Stephen Girard
French emigrant to Philadelphia owned a successful shipping company that had extensive business contact with the French colony in Haiti.

9. Benjamin Rush
Philadelphian who signed of the Declaration of Independence, abolitionist, city leader, and a doctor who believed in bleeding patients to get the bad blood out.

10. Richard Allen
African-American leader who founded the African-Methodist-Episcopal Church and Free African Society.

11. Anne Parish
Philadelphia women who creates the House of Industry to train Yellow Fever survivors in useful jobs.

12. John Locke
Enlightenment philosopher that argued governments had a Social Contract to protect life, liberty and property. If they didn’t fulfill the social contract they should be replaced.

13. Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania Gazette Owner, politician and scientist who created the Albany Plan and “Join or Die cartoon.”

14. Colonel George Washington
Virginia Colonel whose battle at Fort Necessity in 1754 starts the French and Indian War.
Assumed command and saved General Braddock’s army at Battle of the Monongahela.

15. General Edward Braddock
British General who is killed, along with 1,000 British troops at the Battle of the Monongahela by the French and Indians.

16. Colonel John Armstrong
Pennsylvania Militia Colonel who leads a raid on the Indian village of Kittanning.

17. William Pitt
British Foreign Secretary whose plan won the French and Indian War.

18. General John Forbes
British general from Scotland who built a road through Pennsylvania and conquered Fort Duquesne.

19. General James Wolfe
British General that won the 1779 Battle of Quebec, but was killed.
Benjamin West “The Death Of General Wolfe,” oil on canvas, 1771.