APUSH important stuff to know

Chapter 1 Important dates and people

Thomas Aquinas

HE was a proponent of natural theology and the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism.

John Locke

HE was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment

George Whitefield

English Anglican minister and preacher who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.

The Wesleys / Charles Wesley

HE was an English Anglican cleric and a principal leader of the Methodist movement.

Cotton Mather

Medicine man

Christopher Columbus

“Discovered” America; originally was searching for India

Hernan Cortes/Francisco Pizzaro

HE led the Conquistadors to kidnap Moctezuma and defeat the Aztecs in 1520. HE defeated the Incas in 1538.

Henry Hudson

HE was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century

John Cabot

His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America

Sir. Walter Raleigh

HE was an English statesman, soldier, writer, and explorer.

Bartolomé De Las Casas

was a Spanish Dominican friar who arrived in Hispaniola as a layman and became a powerful voice against the mistreatment of indigenous peoples in the Americas.

Aztecs

Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico. Known for their sophisticated social, political, and religious systems, as well as their impressive capital city, Tenochtitlan. Eventually conquered by the Spanish conquistadors in 1521.

John Rolfe

Getting the white people out of the Starving Times (1608-1612) in 1612

Captain John Smith

HE was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author

Lord De La Warr

With his noble rank and previous military experience, De La Warr was appointed Virginia's governor and captain-general in 1610. Realy mean

Sir Thomas Dale

Imposed hard punishments and discipline on the Jamestown colony with Lord De La Warr. not Gates

King James 1

His support of the Virginia Company, which established the first permanent English colony at Jamestown. He also authorized the famous NAME Version of the Bible.

Sir Thomas Gates

imposed hard punishments and discipline on the Jamestown colony with Lord De La Warr, Not Dale

John Winthrop

key figure in the founding and governance of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, serving as its governor for 12 out of its first 20 years. He led the first large wave of English colonists to the area in 1630

Edward Braddock

British officer and commander-in-chief for North America during the French and Indian War.

George Washington

First Colonial President of American and Served from 1789 to 1797, the longest of any president

Benjamin Franklin

Promoted ideas of unity

William Pitt

HE shifted British focus to North America, leading to significant victories such as the capture of Louisbourg, Quebec, and Montreal. These victories effectively removed French presence from the continent, contributing to Britain's rise as a global power.

General James Wolfe

Took Quebec in 1759, which helped William Pitt

Lord Fredrick North

Fought and succeeded in repealing the Stamp act after receiving little profit from it, he also started the Townsend and Tea acts.

Paul Revire

The messenger who rode around horseback throughout his village:  “The British are coming”

Samuel Adams

The leader of the sons of liberty, expressed how wrong the British actually were for overcontrolling them

11,000 years ago

The Migrants came from the Bearing straight into the Americas, as well as the Migrants from Peru and Chile coming up into North America

13,000 years ago

The Clovis people started the first civilisations in the Americas, being the first sedentary civilisation that focused on hunting and farming near the greater tribe

8,000 BCE

The Beginning of the Archaic Period

1492

Columbus arrives in the Americas

1494

The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1XXX, was an agreement between Spain and Portugal to divide the newly discovered lands outside of Europe

Date.

1521

The Aztecs were conquered by Cortés and the Conquistadors

1565

The Spanish established St. Augustine

1680

Pueblo revolt

1607

King James 1 charter, moved to the Americas to Jamestown

Date.

1609-1610

Starving Time in Virginia

1612

John Rofle began cultivating tobacco

July 30th, 1619

The House of Burgesses, the first elected legislative body in the British American colonies, convened in Jamestown, Virginia. This assembly, comprising 22 elected representatives (burgesses) from various Virginia settlements, was a significant step towards self-governance in the colonies.

Also 1619

“20 and odd negroes” arrive on Dutch ships in America, marking the first step toward African slave labor

1620

The Mayflower arrives in Plymouth, and the Mayflower Compact is signed: an agreement signed by the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower before they disembarked in the New World.

1637

Pequot War

January 14, 1639

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut: a foundational document of representative government in the United States.

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion: An armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley by Virginia settlers, triggered by economic hardship, political grievances, and escalating conflicts with Natives

1675

King Phillip’s War

1663

The Carolinas were founded when King Charles II granted a large tract of land to eight loyal supporters, known as the Lords Proprietors

1719

The Carolinas are split into North Carolina and South Carolina

Stamp Act

(1765): Required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials, including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards, by purchasing special stamps.

Tea Act

(1773): Granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies, allowing them to sell tea at lower prices than smuggled tea, but still subject to the Townshend Act duty, which angered colonists.

Sugar Act

(1764): Lowered the tax on molasses but increased enforcement of smuggling laws and taxed other foreign goods like sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, and indigo.

Intolerable Acts

(1774): A series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party.

Currency Act

(1764): Prohibited the American colonies from issuing their own paper money, forcing them to conduct trade using hard currency (gold and silver), which was scarce.

Townshend Acts

(1767): Imposed duties on imported goods such as glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The revenue from these taxes was intended to pay the salaries of British governors and judges in the colonies.

Quartering Act

(1765): Required colonial assemblies to provide housing, food, and supplies for British troops stationed in the colonies.

Quartering Act

(1765): Required colonial assemblies to provide housing, food, and supplies for British troops stationed in the colonies.

Coercive Acts

(1774): Another name for the Intolerable Acts, used by the British Parliament to describe the measures taken to coerce the rebellious colony of Massachusetts into submission after the Boston Tea Party.