This list is NOT all-inclusive. This is a review of the most important names you
NEED to know in order to pass. The inclusive list is in your notes and textbook.

Explain the significance of the following to American history:

SECTION 1



Magna Charta, 1215
Parliament
Johannes Gutenburg, 1440
Martin Luther, 1517
John Calvin
(Huguenots, Dutch Reformed,
Presbyterians, & Puritans)

Henry VIII
Iroquois Confederacy
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand and Isabella
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan

Hernando Cortes
Philip II
Spanish Armada
Dissenters
(Catholics, Puritans, Separatists)

Roanoke
Captain John Smith
Common-store system
Pocahantas
House of Burgesses
Pilgrims
(Separatists & Strangers)
Mayflower Compact

Puritans
Scrooby Congregation
William Bradford
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Bacon's Rebellion
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Indentured servants
William Penn
Royal Colony
Proprietary Colony
Self-Governing Colony
New England Town Meeting



SECTION 2



Sam Adams
Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
Wm. Blackstone (Commentaries on the Law of England)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Aaron Burr
David Brainerd
Joseph Brant
Bunker Hill
Common Sense (Jan. 1776)
General Cornwallis

Declaration of Independence Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
George III
George Grenville
Alexander Hamilton
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
John Paul Jones
Marquis de Lafayette - French aide

Lexington & Concord
John Locke
("social contract" theory of gov't)
James Madison
John Marshall
Olive Branch Petition
Thomas Paine
Paul Revere
Daniel Shays
Baron von Steuben - Prussian aide
George Washington
the Wesley brothers
George Whitefield



SECTION 3



Aaron Burr (Hamilton, conspiracy)
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Exposition & Protest of S. Carolina
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Francis Scott Key
Lewis & Clark

Louisiana Purchase
William Marbury
John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison
MuCulloch v. Maryland

Dartmouth College Case
Fort McHenry
Missouri Compromise
James Monroe

Monroe Doctrine
the Prophet
Sacagawea
Tariff of Abominations
Tecumseh
"Tippicanoe and Tyler, too!"
Trail of Tears
Daniel Webster
Whigs