AP UNITED STATES HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2018 SHANNON SAUNDERS Welcome to Advanced Placement United States History! This year we will be covering an enormous amount of material. By the end of the year we must be through to the present so the sooner we get started the better. This is the first of numerous packets you will have during the year so let s jump right in. This packet is to be done on your own. All work turned in is your own. REQUIRED READING: Arthur Miller, The Crucible Kennedy and Cohen, The American Pageant (AP, 16 th edition) Chapters 1-4 KEY TERMS/Questions Chapters 1-4 (Handwritten, own work) GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS English Colonies (Handwritten, own work)
KEY TERMS Define the terms, explain the significance of the terms, and answer the questions fully. This work is to be done on your own. The terms and questions must be HANDWRITTEN. Do not simply look the terms up on the internet, but instead as you read keep this list beside you and answer as you go. CHAPTER 1 New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E. -1769 Incas Aztecs Maize Mississippian Culture Anasazi three-sisters farming Iroquois Christopher Columbus Columbian Exchange Treaty of Tordesillas encomienda noche triste mestizos Battle of Acoma Pope s Rebellion Black Legend Hernan Cortez Francisco Pizarro 1. What kind of environmental impact did the Native Americans have? Why do you think this impact was significantly different from that of the Europeans? 2. What was the impetus for European exploration in the 15 th and 16 th centuries? 3. Describe the impact of interaction between Europe and the Americas, including the global effects of the Columbian
exchange of plants, animals, and the introduction of European illnesses into the Americas. Chapter 2 The Planting of English America 1500-1733 Sir Walter Raleigh Roanoke surplus population Primogeniture Joint-stock company Jamestown Captain John Smith Pocahontas Powhatan Tobacco John Rolfe 1st Anglo-Powhatan War 2nd Anglo-Powhatan War three Ds House of Burgesses proprietorship Act of Toleration Barbados Slave Code Iroquois Confederacy Tuscarora War Yamasee Indians James Oglethorpe buffer colony 1. How did the English respond to English settlement? What factors prevented them from resisting effectively? What attempts by the Indians were made to overcome this? 2. How did English land laws influence the settlement of North America?
3. Outline the beginning of the plantation system and its importation to America. How did the colonists deal with the need for labor before slavery became widespread? Chapter 3 Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700 Calvinism Predestination Puritans Separatists Mayflower Compact Covenant Massachusetts Bay colony Great English Migration the elect Anne Hutchinson Antinomianism Roger Williams Metacom Fundamental Orders Pequot Wars King Philip s War New England Confederation Dominion of New England Navigation Laws salutary neglect New Netherlands patroonship New Sweden Quakers William Penn Blue laws royal colony 1. Describe the three separate regions of the English colonies? How did each differ from the others, and why? 2. Describe the Puritan/Separatist drive to establish colonies. How did religious beliefs inform their actions? 3. Describe the interaction between the English and the Native Americans. How were the Puritans and the Quakers different in
their relations to the native? Compare English actions with those of the Spanish. Chapter 4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692 The Chesapeake Indentured servants Headright system freedom dues Bacon s Rebellion Middle passage slave codes midwifery gentry Half-way Covenant Salem Witch Trials Leisler s Rebellion William Berkeley 1. Describe the abuses of the indentured servant system. How did the conditions freedmen faced become potentially explosive? How did the headright system exacerbate the frustrations of the freedmen? 2. List the pros and cons of being a woman in the Chesapeake in the 17 th century. Why would so few women live to be forty years old? Explain the statement that New England invented grandparents. 3. Why did the Puritans face a crisis of faith in the mid-17 century? How did they attempt to deal with this? GRAPHIC ORGANIZER Comparing and Contrasting the Thirteen Colonies
New England Colonies Middle Colonies Southern Colonies Key colonies Key Figures Why Settle? Economic Activity Predominant Religion(s)