| Term | Definition |
| Separatists | Group of believers who wanted to separate from the Church of England. |
| Elder Brewester | Pilgrim minister at Plymouth. |
| Puritans | English believers who wanted to purify the church of England. |
| John Eliot | Puritan minister from Massachussetts who ministered to the Indians of New England. |
| Quakers | Or Society of Friends; believed that all men are equal and refused |
| Moravians | Germans who followed the teachings of Reformation leader John Huss |
| Count Von Zinzendorf | Leader of the Moravians. |
| Jonathan Edwards | One of the first leaders of the Awakening; One of the most intelligent men in the colonies. |
| George Whitefield | Great from England who visited Georgia seven times and preached for Georgia to New England, sometimes to 20,00 people at once; established the first orphanage in the English colonies. |
| David Brainerd | A native fo Conecticut who became one of the first missionaries to the Indians as a result of the Great Awakening. |