The people and dates you need to know from the colonial period of us history for the ap exam.
10195823 | James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia as a haven for people imprisoned for debt | |
10195824 | Benjamin Franklin | in his Pennsylvania Gazette, he warned his fellow colonists that they must "join or die" | |
10195825 | Roger Williams | punished by exile for advocating separation of church and state in Massachusetts Bay, founded Rhode Island | |
10195826 | Edward Braddock | defeated at fort duquesne(Pittsburgh) and killed during the french and Indian war | |
10195827 | Nathaniel Bacon | leader of the rebellion against Gov. Berkeley; Bacon's Rebellion was mainly supported by young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land | |
10195828 | Charles II | English monarch when carolinas, PA, NY and CT were founded. | |
10195829 | Edmund Andros | headed the Dominion of New England | |
10195830 | Jonathan Edwards | leader of the Great Awakening | |
10195831 | Anne Hutchinson | punished by exile for challenging the authority of leading Puritan clergymen i Massachusetts Bay | |
10195832 | Pocahontas | supposedly saved Capt. John Smith's life | |
10195833 | George Washington | aide to General Braddock | |
10195834 | William and Mary | Protestant rulers of the Netherlands | |
10195835 | John Conton | Puritan minister who disliked democracy | |
10195836 | King Philip | Indian chieftan, shot and beheaded for leading an uprising against whites in New England | |
10195837 | Miles Standish | non-puritan adventurer, Indian fighter and negotiator | |
10195838 | Montezuma | last of the Aztec emperors of Mexico | |
10195839 | Thomas Fairfax | owned 5 million acres in Virginia; one of the few landlords who lived on his property | |
10195840 | Thomas Hutchinson | massachusetts Lt. Governor who feared democracy; wanted stiffer voting qualifications; house burned by Boston mob as he appeared to support the stamp act | |
10195841 | William shirley | governor of MA; tried to take french forts on frontier in the french and indian war; organized the capture of Louisburg in King George's War | |
10195842 | Jeffrey Amherst | bristish general who rebuilt the abandoned french forts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point in the French and Indian War, captured Montreal | |
10195843 | John Witherspoon | brought up in the colonies, instructed by Scottish teacher, president of Princeton College, NJ; signed Declaration of independence | |
10195844 | Mary White Rowlandson | frontier wife in MA (1670s); captured by indians and ransomed after 12 weeks | |
10195845 | Conon Mather | Congregational Minister, led a group of ministers to oppose the Salem Witch Trials as convicting people on dubious evidence | |
10195846 | Christian Crusaders | indirectly responsible for discovery of Americas (publicize spices etc) | |
10195847 | encomienda | allowed the european governments to give indians to colonists for labor is they promised to christianze them | |
10195848 | Joint-stock company | a type of primitive corporation, used to fund jamestown | |
10195849 | 1607 | jamestown | |
10195850 | 1763 | end of french and indian war | |
10195851 | 1607-1763 | puritans, northern model (city on a hill), chesapeake-souther model (American Paradox), period of benign neglect and mercantilism |