APUSH Summer Assignment
Hello Historians! Welcome to APUSH!! In order to hit the ground running, please enjoy
the following.
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Please read and have the definitions of these terms ready. For each
definition, try to find its place in history. Why is it meaningful? How does
it connect to the theme of the chapter? What does the term (person, place,
event etc.) contribute to the time period?
You will notice that not all of the terms listed will require a definition, but
rather an explanation. Try your best to figure out the impact and
significance of each term.
Develop a format for notes that works best for you (2
column/bullets/roman numerals etc.) Use short hand…it does not need to
necessarily be in paragraph form.
After you have taken notes- You will produce a ONE PAGER for each
chapter. Please remember to re-structure the info using colors and
different groups.
Please have these ready for the first day, as they will prove to be an
extremely valuable resource in the future. We will take an exam on the
first day.
Contact me with any questions/issues concerning the notes over the
summer! Please do not hesitate if you are unsure
Checklist:
o Notes for chapters 1-4
o One Pagers for chapters 1-4
[email protected]
Enjoy summer and be safe,
Mr. Cannon
Chapter 1
New World Beginnings
33,000 B.C.- A.D 1769 (B.C.E-C.E)
The Shaping of North America
 Take a look at the massive time
scale in this section 225million2million years ago
Peopling the Americas
 What happened from 35,00010,000 years ago?
 Bering Sea
 Climate change and agriculture
The earliest Americans
 Corn and other crops
 Three sister farming
 How were most Native Americans
living by the Eve of Europeans
arrival?
Indirect Discoverers of the New World
 Newfoundland
 Muslim middlemen and the
luxuries of the Far East…what
were European explorers really
looking for?
Europeans enter Africa
 Explain the Portuguese and the
“Dark Continent”
 Dias and De Gama
Columbus Comes Upon a New World
 Columbus
When Worlds Collide
 Describe the Columbian
Exchange
 “Sugar Revolution”
The Spanish Conquistadores
 Treaty of Tordesillas
 God, Gold, Glory
 Encomienda
The Conquest of Mexico
 Describe how Cortez “Conquered”
Mexico
 Mestizo
The Spanish Conquistadors: Makers of
America
 Main Idea
The Spread of Spanish America
 Describe Spanish Colonial Rule
(Schools, Cathedrals, mission)
 St. Augustine
 Pope’s Rebellion of 1680
 Differences between Spanish and
English empires in the New world
 Check out Chart on Explorers
APUSH Ch.2
The Planting of English America
1500-1733
*Team…please take a very close look at this chapter. Knowing how the colonies were
formed can tell us a great deal about their role leading up to and through the
Revolution and also with Sectional differences associated with the Civil War etc.*
Note When Spanish, French and English planted outposts in N. America
England’s Imperial Stirrings
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King Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth 1588
Ireland and Spain (Both Catholic)
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake
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Elizabeth Energizes England
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Francis Drake
Roanoke Island…mystery
Spanish Armada 1588
Spain’s defeat ensures England’s
Naval dominance in North
Atlantic…hmmm
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Population Boom
Mobile Population..why?
Primogeniture
Joint stock Companies
England Plants the Jamestown
Seedling
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Virginia Company and King
James I
Charter of VA. Co.
Jamestown
Capt. John Smith…Importance
Irish Tactics
Pocahontas and John Rolfe
sealed peace of First AngloPowhatan War in 1614
1622…Rolfe dead
2nd War in 1644
3 D’s
The Indians New World
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England on the Eve of Empire
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Pocahontas and Powhatan
Lord De La Warr
Note how European Colonization
disrupted Native American
Life…all negative?
Virginia: Child of Tobacco
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Importance of this crop
1619…first slaves
House of Burgesses…huge
precedent
James I revokes charter and
makes Virginia a ________
colony under his direct control in
1624
Maryland: Catholic Haven
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Lord Baltimore
Indentured Servants
Act of Toleration in 1649
The West Indies: Way station to
Mainland America
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Sugar vs. Tobacco
Slave codes
Barbados slave codes 1661...what
was it and what did it lead to?
Colonizing the Carolinas
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King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell,
King Charles II
Indian Slaves
Rice
The Emergence of North Carolina
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Squatters
Similarities with Rhode Island
Note the emergence of North
Carolina
Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer
Colony
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Act as a buffer?
King George II
James Oglethorpe
Debtors Jail
The Plantation Colonies
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Note similarities and differences
“Soil Butchery”
The Iroquois
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Confederacy
5 Nations
APUSH Chapter3
Settling the Northern Colonies
1619-1700
List some differences between Mid-Atlantic and New England Settlement
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
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Calvin’s Doctrine?
Who were the Puritans and how does King Henry VIII Connect to this?
King James I threatens Separatists
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
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Mayflower
Myles Standish
Plymouth Bay outside of jurisdiction
Mayflower Compact!
First Winter
The Beaver and the Bible
William Bradford
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
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John Winthrop
Non-Separatist Puritans
What jobs helped Mass Bay prosper?
City Upon a Hill
Building the Bay Colony
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Describe the Bible Commonwealth (Voting, Town Meetings)
What does Winthrop mean when he calls democracy the “meanest and worst”
form of Gov’t?
Congregations could hire and fire…and ministers could not hold political office
(Separation of Church and State)
Protestant Ethic
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“Day of Doom”
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth
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Anne Hutchinson-Describe trial in 1638
Roger Williams
The Rhode Island “Sewer”
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Freedom of Religion
“Rogues” Island…made up of?
Charter in 1644 (independent Man)
New England Spreads Out
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Hartford 1635- Thomas Hooker
Fundamental Orders in 1639
Merged with New Haven
Maine Absorbed by Mass
New Hampshire Absorbed by mass, and then granted a ___________ colony in
1679
Puritans vs. Indians
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Squanto and Massasoit
Pequot War
Metacom and Pan-Indian alliance
King Philips War
The English (Makers of America)
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Summarize this section
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence
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New England Confederation
Limited, but a seed nonetheless
Describe the deepening Colonial defiance in Massachusetts
Andros Promotes the First American Revolution
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Dominion of New England Created…Why? (From Parliaments perspective)
How did Colonists respond to Navigation Laws?
What did Andros do while in Boston? (THIS IS HUGE!)
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How did Glorious Revolution dismantle Andros’ regime?
SALUTARY NEGLECT! How did it begin???? INCREDIBLY HUGE!
Old Netherlands at New Netherland
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Dutch emerge as an international power
Dutch East and West India Companies
Employ Henry Hudson (New Netherland on Hudson River)
Purchase Manhattan (New Amsterdam…aka New York)
Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors
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Origins of Wall Street
Peter Stuyvesant
Dutch Residues in New York
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New York! Dutch were in English Shadow
Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania
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Quakers…Who were they?
William Penn…”Saucy”
Quaker Pennsylvania and its Neighbors
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Describe the colony
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies
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Fertile Land
Describe these Middle Colonies and how they were “coming to life”
Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe?
Discuss the arguments made and respond. What do you think?
APUSH 4
American Life in the 17th Century
1607-1692
Then Unhealthy Chesapeake
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Describe lifespan of settlers here
Who came to the Chesapeake?
Describe women and family life here
The Tobacco Economy
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Great for Tobacco
More production meant more labor
Headright system
Describe the indentured servant
Frustrated Freeman and Bacon’s Rebellion
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1676 Nathaniel Bacon
William Berkeley
Bacon lit the fire with the majority of Virginia (landless and penniless class)
Lordly Planters looked elsewhere for labor (less troublesome)…Where?
Colonial Slavery
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10-12 million transported (___________ to North America)
What changed in the 1680’s concerning labor force?
Middle Passage
Chattels
1662 “slave codes” begin to make conditions clear
Africans in America
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Describe Slave Labor in South vs. Middle colonies
Stono Rebellion
Southern Society
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Planter class (FFV”S)
Small Farmers (largest class)
Landless whites
From African to African American
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Describe Slave Culture
The New England Family
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Disease like the Chesapeake?
Describe the longevity and family stability in New England vs. the Chesapeake
Which women had more rights? (New England or Chesapeake?)
Midwives
Life in New England Towns
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Tight knit towns
Education…Harvard
Town Meeting (Thomas Jefferson)
The Half Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials
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Half-way covenant allows more members, but weakens the distinction of the
“elect” and others
1692 Salem Witch Trials
Notice difference in social status between the accused and the accusers
The New England Way of Life
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How did the land shape New Englanders
Explain, commerce, ship building and fishing
How did Calvinism add to this?
“Yankee ingenuity”
The Early Settlers Days and Ways
Describe the conditions of women in colonial times, rich vs. poor, and frontiersmen