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- AP US History
Summer Assignment
2017
Assignments:
1. Pick up a textbook before June 16th.Read chapters 1-6(117 pages) in your "American
Pageant" textbook. We will discuss this information the first week of class.
2. Failure to read this information and complete the vocabulary will cause you to
start this class with a poor test grade.
3. The vocabulary terms w i l l be collected the first week of class and will be
graded as a formative assignment.
Unit 1:The Prequel for Nationhood,1492-1763
For each you should understand the: who, what, where, why,when and how
of each; Also being able to explain the importance and significance of each.
Flash cards can also be an excellent way to learn the information.
Chapter 1
1. land bridge
2. Incas/Mayans/Aztecs
3. com/maize
4. Pueblo culture
5. Mound Builders
6. Anasazis
7. Iroquois Confederation
8. Vinland
9. Marco Polo
10. Prince Henry the Navigator
11. Bartholomeu Dfas
12. Vasco da Gama
13. Ferdinand of Aragon/Isabella of Castile
14. Christopher Columbus
15. Columbian Exchange
16. Treaty ofTordesillas
17. Papal Line of Demarcation
18. Conquistadores
19. Vasco Nuiiez Balboa
20. Ferdinand Magellan
21. Juan Ponce de Leon
22. Francisco Coronado
23. Francisco Pizarro
24. encomienda
25. Hernan Cortes
26. Moctezuma!Montezuma
27. Quetzalcoati
28. mestizos
29. John Cabot
30. mission-pueblo-presidio
31. St. Augustine
32. Pope's (Pueblo) Rebellion (1680)
33. Robert de Ia Salle
34. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
35. Father Junipero Serra
Chapter2
36. Henry VII
37. Henry VIII
38. English Reformation
39. Elizabeth I
40. Spanish Annada
41. Enclosure movement
42. joint-stock company
43. Virginia Company of London
44. Virginia
45. Sir Walter Raleigh
46. Jamestown
47. James I
48. Captain John Smith
49. Pocahontas
50. John Rolfe
51. Lord de Ia Warre
52. Powhatan Confederacy
53. House ofBurgesses
54. 1619
55. royal colonies
56. George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
57. Act of Toleration
58. Jamaica
59. sugar
60. Barbados slave codes 1661
61. English Civil War
62. Charles I
63. Charles II
64. Eight Nobles/Lord Proprietors
65. rice
66. Charles Town
67.Savannah
68. James Oglethorpe
69. George II
70. John Wesley
71. Quakers
72. William Penn
73. Iroquois Confederation
74. Five Nations
Chapter 3
75. Martin Luther
76. Protestant Reformation
77. John Calvin
78. omniscient/omnipresent/omnipotent
79. predestination
80. conversion
81. Church of England
82. Separatists/Puritans
83. Saints
84. Pilgrims
85. Mayflower
86. Captain Miles Standish
87. Plymouth Colony
88. Mayflower Compact
89. William Bradford
90. Massachusetts Bay Colony
91. Great Migration
92. Boston
93. Jonathan Winthrop
94. "city upon a hill"
95. freemen
96. visible saints
97. Bible Commonwealth
98. John Cotton
99. Protestant ethic
100. Michael Wigglesworth
101. Anne Hutchinson
102. antinomianism
103. Roger Williams
104. Rhode Island
105. Rev. Thomas Hooker
106. Fundamental Orders
107. New Haven
108. Sir Fernando Gorges
109. New Hampshire
110. self-governing colonies
Ill. Massasoit
112. King Philip's War
113. New England Confederation
114. salutary "benign" neglect
115. Dominion ofNew England
116. Engl ish Navigation Laws
117. Sir Edmund Andros
118. Glorious Revol ution
119. James II
120. William Ill
121. Mary II
122. New Netherlands
123. Dutch East India Company
124. fur trade
125. New Amsterdam
126. patroonships
127. Peter Stuyvesant
128. New Sweden
129. Thirty Years War
130. New York/Duke of York
131. Quakers/Society of Friends
132. William Penn
133. Pennsylvania
134. Philadelphia
135. New Jersey
136. proprietary colonies
137. bread colonies
Chapter 4
138. tobacco
139. headright system
140. indentured servant/whi te slave
141. William Berkeley
142. Nathaniel Bacon
143. middle passage
144. slave codes
145. Stano Rebellion
146. FFVs
147. Charles Wilson Peale
148. half-way covenant
149. Salem witch trials
150. town meeting
151. Yankee ingenuity
152. sacred cod
Chapter 5
153. Scots-Irish
154. German/Pennsylvania Dutch
155. Pax.ton Boys
156. Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur
157. Cotton Mather
158. Middle colonies
159. New England colonies
160. Southern colonies
161. triangular trade
162. naval stores
163. Molasses Act (1733)
164. established church
165. Poor Richard's Almanac
166. Arminians
167. Jonathan Edwards
168. Great Awakening
169. ''old" lightsf'new" lights
170. George Whitefield
171.
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173.
174.
175.
176.
177.
178.
179.
180.
181.
Harvard/ Yale
William and Mary
College ofNew Jersey/Princeton
John Trumbull
Charles Willson Peale
Benjamin West
John Singleton Copley
Georgian Style
Phillis Wheatley
Benjamin Franklin
John Peter Zenger
Chapter6
182. Edict ofNantes
183. coureurs de bois
184. Antoine Cadillac
185. Robert de Ia Salle
186. Louisiana
187. New France
188. Samuel de Champlain
189. King William's War
190. Queen Anne's War
191. King George's War
192. William Pitt
193. George Washington
194. Fort Necessity
195. James Wolfe
196. Edward Braddock
197. Pontiac
198. Huguenots
199. French and fndian War
200. "Join or Die."
201. Albany Congress
202. Pontiac's Rebellion
203. Proclamation of 1763
204. the first major revolt against the British.
205. Map of French control
What you need to know to answer questions for the Unit Exam and the AP Test in Mav
1. Identify and describe how the first Americans came to settle in the western hemisphere.
2. Identify and describe the major Native American empires found in the Americas and describe what
happened politically, socially, culturally, and economically when they and the Europeans came in contact
with one another.
3. Identify the major Native American communities that came in contact with British American and the effects
of their encounters
4. Identify the major European powers involved in coming to the western hemisphere, why they came, and
how their colonial enterprises were similar and different.
5. Explain why England was late in joining the colonial race and how political events in England affected not
only the establishment of the colonies, but the growth and development of those colonies through and up to
1754.
6. Be able to locate on a map the 4 major sections and the colonies within those sections of British colonial
America.
a. Describi ng when, who, why, and how each colony was founded, including the major
ethnicities/nationalities and religious groups involved in the founding.
b. How do those sections evolve, comparing and contrasting the demographic and socio-economic
traits for each.
7. Identify the 3 major government types found in the British colonies, the evolution and the types of
governments found in the colonies from 1607-1754.
8. Compare and contrast Puritans and Pilgrims.
9. Compare and contrast the experience of the colonists and colonies founded in New England with
Jamestown.
10. Describe and explain the importance of Jamestown and the Puritan colonies in shaping what would become
the fabric of America.
11. Identify and describe the impact non-English settlers had on shaping colonial America.
12. Identi fy the religious groups that settle in British colonial America and how those groups contributed to the
ideas of religious freedom and "separation of church and state."
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13. Describe and analyze the history of religion in the colonies, including the cause and effect of the half-way
covenant and the First Great Awakening.
14. Compare and contrast indentured servants with slaves, describing where each came from, why colonial
masters used them, and how the use of indentured servants led to slavery.
15. Describe and evaluate the evolution of self-government and democracy in the British colonies before 1754.
16. Identify the major institutions of education and the role of education in the colonies
17.Describe and evaluate the role of women in the British colonies.
18. Be able to define the concept of mission, compact, the elect, and the Protestant work ethic in the founding
and evolution of the psyche ofthose living in the colonies.
19. Describe and evaluate the political, social, cultural, and economic relationship between the British colonies
and England.
20. Identify the components of triangular trade and explain how the system worked.
2l. Identify and describe the contributions made by colonial writers and artists.
22. Compare and contrast the reasons for unity and the reasons for disunity in the American colonies before and
after the Seven Years' War.
23. To what extent did the Seven Years' War helped cause the American Revolutionary War?
24. What was the Proclamation of 1763 -how was it viewed by America and how was i t viewed by England?
What caused this difference in perception?
25. Identify those who rebelled against authority in British colonial America describing their causes and effects.