Chapter 1 and 2 Note Cards
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APUSH Summer Assignment
Overview: The purpose of this assignment is to help you not only learn the material for the upcoming chapter test, but to
also help you create a useful review tool for the AP Exam in May.
Instructions:
1. Create a note card for each of the terms listed below using 4x6 inch index cards
2. On one side of the card write the name of the term.
3. On the other side of the card, include the following things in the order listed below:
- Card #: in the upper right corner; taken from the list below
- Date/s: for an event, include the YEAR/s it happened; for a person, include the YEARS they lived
- Historical Era
- Definition
- Significance
4. Example:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Date: 1676
#7
Historical Era: Colonial Era
Definition: Nathaniel Bacon, frustrated by being shut out of the
lucrative Indian trade by William Berekeley (royal governor of
VA) as well as by the lack of protection provided to backcountry
farmers, turned a large group of landless former indentured
servants against the political and economic elite of the colony.
They attacked Jamestown and burned it to the ground.
Historical Significance: Because many indentured servants
participated in Bacon’s Rebellion, Virginia planters became more
interested in slaves as a potential source of labor. Illustrates the
class tensions between Eastern elite and backcountry westerners.
These tensions would be eased after Bacon’s Rebellion as the
Eastern elite offered more economic and political opportunities to
poor whites. Class tensions were replaced by racial tensions.
5. Repeat for every term on this list.
6. Note cards should be turned in either secured with a rubber band, a strong clip, or in a zip lock bag. If you
turn in loose cards, your grade will be reduced.
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ERA: Era of Exploration
Hernando Cortez
Encomienda and Repartimiento
Conquistadors
Protestantism
Reconquista
Mercantilism
ERA: Colonial Era
Bacon’s Rebellion
Headright system
House of Burgesses
Navigation Acts
Indentured servant
John Rolfe
John Smith
Middle Passage
Virginia Company
Calvinism