Dual Credit US History Summer Reading Assignment 2016
Nansemond River H.S.
Mrs. Parker ([email protected])
If you lose this packet, it will be available on my blog: http://blogs.sps.12.net/4918
Directions:
1. You will read Alan Taylor’s Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction. (ISBN # 978-0-19-976623-9).
The book is available at bookstores and amazon.com. Do not wait until the last minute to purchase the book,
or do the assignments. I encourage you to buy a print edition rather than an e-Book. As you read, you will
need to take notes over each chapter and answer the following questions. All notes must be hand-written.
You must write complete sentences. You will be allowed to use your notes on the test at the beginning of the
school year. This is all individual work. Please, DO NOT work collaboratively or share answers!!!
2. Map of United States----Instruction Sheet and Maps in Packet
3. Thirteen Colonies Chart—using Colonial America and other resources, complete the chart
4. Due Dates:
__________- Maps and Thirteen Colonies Chart Due
__________ - Reading Questions / Guide Due
__________- Open Note Test over Colonial America
Failure to complete this summer assignment will mean you risk failing the 1st grading period. This is not a
smart way to begin the year. DC US/VA History is a college level class and requires a sophisticated, mature
work ethic. Deadlines will be strictly adhered to.
Reading Questions /Guide over Colonial America: Completely answer each question below and define
each term.
1. Introduction
1. Describe “American Exceptionalism” and how it can give a one-side view of colonialism.
2. Explain the claim that from 1492-1776 North American population decreased in population despite the
massive immigration to the “New World”.
3. Explain how the Natives adapted to the intrusion of newcomers.
4. How important were the Natives to European rivals.
Encounters – list items
1. First settlers in the western hemisphere.
2. Factors that caused nomadic tribes to settle in different regions.
3. Factors that led to Europeans to make voyages of exploration.
4. Effects of the first contact between Europeans and the western hemisphere.
Terms (Define):
Paleo Indians
Archaic Indians
3 crops
Hohokam
Pueblos
Cahokia
Reconquista
hidalgos
Amerigo Vespucci Columbian Exchange
2. New Spain
1. Describe how Spain was able to conquer and create a vast empire by 1550.
2. List & explain factors for the establishment of northern outposts.
3. What was the cost of native conversions? Positive/Negative?
4. Describe the role of the Franciscan friars.
5. Describe Spain’s empire in 1700.
Anasazi
Christopher Columbus
Terms (Define):
Conquistadores
Hernán Cortes
Mestizos
Hernando de Soto
Pope /Pueblo Revolt
Francisco Pizzaro
Franciso de Coronado
encomienda
St. Augustine
3. New France
1. List & explain the factors for why France settled in the Canadian region?
2. Explain the mutual dependency between the French and Indians / Indian Tribes.
3. What are the results of the clashes / rivalries over the fur trade?
4. List ways the French attempted to populate New France.
5. Describe the “mutual accommodations” or middle ground.
6. Explain factors for the establishment of Louisiana.
7. Why did the French subsidize their colonies?
8. Factors of the rise of Great Plains Tribes & result of that rise.
Terms (Define):
Samuel Champlain Quebec
Five Nations coureurs de bois
New Orleans
presidios
4. Chesapeake Colonies
1. Factors that led to the English to settle in the Chesapeake region.
2. Reasons why the Chesapeake colonists had difficult relations with the Native Americans.
3. Describe Jamestown & factors for its slow growth.
4. Reasons why the Virginia and Maryland Colonies eventually prospered.
5. Circumstances and consequences of Bacon’s Rebellion.
6. Reasons for the early growth of slavery.
Terms (Define):
Virginia
Black Legend
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke
Powhatan
Pocahontas
John Rolfe /tobacco Lord Baltimore
Law of coverture
indentured servants William Berkeley
Nathaniel Bacon
New slave laws
5. New England
1. Describe the Puritan Rigor / view of government.
2. Factors that caused the New England colonies to differ from the Chesapeake colonies.
3. Reasons why the Pilgrims and Puritans came to Massachusetts.
4. Ways in which New Englanders made their living.
5. Steps to taken to make Massachusetts “A City upon a Hill”.
6. Reasons why the New England colonists had difficult relations with the Native Americans.
Terms (Define):
Puritanism
Separatists
John Calvin
William Laud
Pilgrims
Mayflower
Great Migration
Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
town system
religious toleration Salem Witch Trials
Praying towns
King Phillip
6. West Indies and the Carolinas
1. Reasons why growing sugar was so important to the British.
2. Reasons why West Indies planters moved to the Carolinas in the 1670s.
3. Reasons for the growth of slavery in the Carolina colonies.
4. Interesting features about the settlement of Georgia.
Terms (Define):
Charles Town
Lords Proprietor
Stono Rebellion
James Oglethorpe
7. British America
1. Features of interest about the Dutch and the Navigation Acts.
2. Features of interest about the settlement of Pennsylvania.
3. British Efforts to govern her American colonies.
4. The Migration of Scots, Germans, and slaves to the colonies.
5. Causes and consequences of “The Great Awakening”.
Terms (Define):
William Penn
Philadelphia
Empires
Will read later in the 1st grading period.
Middle Colonies
George Whitefield
Thirteen Colonies Chart
As you read through the book, and using ancillary sources, fill in the chart for the original Thirteen Colonies.
Colony
Year
Founded
Leader/Founder
Type of Colony
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Government
Reasons Founded & Source of
Economic Success
Colony
Year
Founded
Leader/Founder
Type of Colony
Southern Colonies
Government
Reasons Founded & Source of
Economic Success
DC US HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2016 - Maps
Directions: Using resources you find on your own, carefully fill in the following maps with the items listed
below.
Please read the list carefully and completely before beginning your work. Terms (Define):
MAP 1
Bodies of Water: (label only, in black)
1. Atlantic Ocean
2. Pacific Ocean
3. Caribbean Sea
4. Great Lakes
5. Missouri-Mississippi-Ohio River System
6. Columbia-Snake River System
7. St. Lawrence River System
Geographic features/landforms: (generic outline, color in light brown color pencil and label in black)
1. Appalachian Mountains
2. Rocky Mountains
3. Great Basin
4. Great Plains
5. Location of the Bering Land Bridge
6. Tidewater Region
European Colonial Claims by 1700:
Draw in the colonial claims and then label according to the color code as listed below in colored pencils.
1. English, stripe in purple
2. French, stripe in blue
3. Spanish, stripe in red
The Original Thirteen Colonies:
Draw in the colonies and then label. When you are finished, color code as listed below in colored pencils.
1. Color New England colonies yellow
2. Color Middle Colonies orange
3. Color Southern Colonies light green
Create a KEY to add on the front of the map.
MAP 2
Label each of the 50 states and their capitals in black pen.
Star Washington, D.C. and label in blue pen.