Granada Hills Charter High School
A.P. United States History – 2016 Summer Assignment
DUE: Day 1 of Fall 2016 semester
Instructors:
Ms. Bacon [email protected]
Ms. Soto [email protected]
Mr. Yamazaki [email protected]
Classroom Textbook
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The American Pageant, David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A Bailey, 13th
ed.
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PDF Version can be found in the APUSH Google Classroom using CLASS CODE: hic3glg
Summer Assignment
1. Join APUSH Summer Assignment Google Class Page. CLASS CODE: hic3glg
2. Complete the Study Guides – DOWNLOAD PDFs for CH1, CH2, and CH3 and
complete study guides. Study Guides must be hand written and not typed. Answers
must be from the PDF classroom textbook(found in APUSH google classroom as
noted above. Answers from Wikipedia will not be accepted.
 Study Guide packet will be due the first day of school.
 A Test will be given the first day of school on chapters 1 and 2.
3. Complete the 16th and 17th Century European Colonizing Efforts chart
a. Use the PDFs for Chapters 1, 2, 3.
2. Complete the Colonial American Scrapbook Project
After reading chapters 1 and 2 in the textbook, create a scrapbook that addresses all
required components of part one, part two, and part three.
*(See directions on the last page of this packet)*
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CH 1 STUDYGUIDE
New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C. – A.D. 1769
Before studying Chapter 1, read over these “Themes”:
Theme: The first discoverers of America, the ancestors of the American Indians, were small bands of hunters who crossed a
temporary land bridge from Siberia and spread across both North and South America. They evolved a great variety of cultures,
which ranged from the sophisticated urban civilizations in Mexico and Central and South America to the largely seminomadic
societies of North America.
Theme: Europe's growing demand for Eastern luxuries prompted exploration in the hopes of reducing the expense of those
goods with new trade routes. Exploration occurred incrementally, beginning with the Portuguese moving around the coast of
Africa and establishing trading posts. Awareness of the New World and its wealth pushed exploration across the Atlantic.
Spanish exploration continued in the same fashion, first in the Caribbean islands then expanding into South and North
America.
Theme: Portuguese and Spanish explorers encountered and then conquered much of the Americas and their Indian
inhabitants. This collision of worlds deeply affected all the Atlantic societies - Europe, the Americas, and Africa - as the effects
of disease, conquest, slavery, and intermarriage began to create a truly new world in Latin America, including the borderlands
of Florida, New Mexico, and California, all of which later became part of the United States.
After studying Chapter 1 in the online textbook, answer the following questions:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Describe the origin and development of the major native Indian cultures of the Americas.
Explain the developments in Europe and Africa that led to Columbus’s voyage to America.
Explain what two countries led the way in early exploration and why they were able to do so.
Explain the changes and conflicts that occurred when the diverse worlds of Europe, Africa, and the Americas collided after
1492.
Describe the Spanish conquest of Mexico and South America and identify the major features of Spanish colonization and
expansion in North America.
Identify the following people and terms. Include the historical significance of each term or person. Also
note the dates of the event if that is pertinent.
A. People
Marco Polo
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Pizarro
Hernán Cortés
Juan Ponce de León
Francisco Coronado
Hernando de Soto
Father Junipero Serra
Moctezuma
B. Terms:
capitalism
conquistadores
Renaissance
Aztecs
mestizos
Popés Rebellion
Treaty of Tordesillas
Pueblo Indians
“three sister” farming
Spanish Armada
Great Ice Age
spice islands
Canadian Shield
encomienda
Mound Builders
Iroquois Confederacy
“the black legend”
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C. Short Answer Questions: Using what you have learned by reading Chapter 1, answer the following:
1.
What fundamental factors drew the Europeans to the exploration, conquest, and settlement of the New World?
Explain.
2.
In what ways might the European encounter with the Americas be seen as a disaster or tragedy, and in what ways
might it be seen as an inevitable development in the history of humanity with long-run positive results?
3.
What was the impact on the Indians, Europeans, and Africans when each of their previously separate worlds
“collided” with one another?
4.
What were the common characteristics of all Indian cultures in the New World, and what were the important
differences among them?
5.
How did the geographic setting of North America – including its relation to Asia, Europe, and Africa – affect its
subsequent history?
D. Map Work: Using the numbers and letters on the map, identify the places listed below:
B
A
A
C
1. _____________________________
6. _____________________________
11._____________________________
2. _____________________________
7. _____________________________
12._____________________________
3. _____________________________
8. _____________________________
A. _____________________________
4. _____________________________
9. _____________________________
B. _____________________________
5. _____________________________
10._____________________________
C. _____________________________
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[Is this map an accurate representation of the world? Why or why not? ]
CH 2 STUDYGUIDE
The Planting of English America: 1500 - 1733
Before studying Chapter 2, read over these “Themes”:
Theme: After a late start, a proud, nationalistic England joined the race for colonies and successfully established five colonies
along the southeastern seacoast of North America. Although varying somewhat in origins and character, all these colonies
exhibited plantation agriculture, indentured and slave labor, a tendency toward strong economic and social hierarchies, and a
pattern of widely scattered, institutionally weak settlements.
Theme: The English hoped to follow Spain's example of finding great wealth in the New World, and that influenced the
financing and founding of the early southern colonies. The focus on making the southern colonies profitable shaped colonial
decisions, including choice of crops and the use of indentured and slave labor. This same focus also helped create economic
and cultural ties between the early southern colonies and English settlements in the West Indies.
Theme: The early southern colonies encounters with Indians and African slaves established the patterns of race relations that
would shape the North American experience; in particular, warfare and reservations for the Indians and lifelong slave codes
for African Americans.
After reading Chapter 2 in the online textbook, answer the following:
1. State the factors that led England to begin colonization.
2. Describe the development of Jamestown, from its disastrous beginnings to its later apparent prosperity.
3. Describe the cultural and social changes that Native American communities underwent in response to
European colonization.
4. Describe the different ways the Spanish, British and French interacted with Native Americans.
5. Describe changes in the economy and labor system in Virginia and other southern colonies.
6. Indicate the similarities and differences among the southern colonies of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia.
Identify the following people and terms. Include the historical significance of each term or person. Also
note the dates of the event if that is pertinent.
A. People
Lord De La Ware
Handsome Lake
James Oglethorpe
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Humphrey Gilbert
John Smith
Lord Baltimore
Oliver Cromwell
Powhatan
Walter Raleigh
B. Terms:
nationalism
yeoman
2nd Anglo-Powhatan War
longhouse
Act of Toleration
nation-state
Spanish Armada
Barbados slave code
joint-stock company
primogeniture
Virginia Company
slavery
indentured servitude
Restoration
slave codes
enclosure
Act of Toleration
House of Burgesses
starving time
Savannah Indians
Royal colony
squatter
Iroquois Confederacy
Proprietary colony
1st Anglo-Powhatan War
Ireland
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C. Map Work: Using the numbers on the map, identify the places listed below:
1. ___________________________
2. ___________________________
3. ___________________________
4. ___________________________
5. ___________________________
6. ___________________________
7. ___________________________
8. ___________________________
9. ___________________________
10.___________________________
11.___________________________
12. ___________________________
13. ___________________________
14. ___________________________
D. Short Answer Questions:
1. Compare and contrast the early colonial empires of Portugal, Spain, and England in terms of
motives, economic foundations, and relations with Africans and Indians (see Chapter 1).
2. Discuss the relations between the English settlers and the Indians of the southern Atlantic coast.
3. How did the search for a viable labor force affect the development of the southern colonies? What
was the role of African-American slavery in the early colonial settlements? Why were two southern
colonies initially resistant to slavery?
4. What features were common to all of England’s southern colonies, and what features were peculiar
to each one?
5. What factors contributed to England’s establishment of colonies in North America?
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16th and 17th Century European Colonizing Efforts
Use Chapter 1, 2, and part of 3 to fill out this chart.
European
Nation
Location of Colonies
within the Americas
Motives/Purpose of
Colonization
(religious, economic,
political factors)
Spain
Portugal
The
Netherlands/
Dutch
France
England
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Relations with the
Natives.
Colonial American Scrapbook Project
Imagine you are an 18th-century English journalist who has spent a year living in and learning about colonial America.
While traveling through each colonial region, you kept a journal/scrapbook to record your thoughts and impressions of
the places, its people, and their cultures. You want your journal/scrapbook to be published so that the people of England
will better understand what life is like in colonial America.
Directions: After reading chapters 1 and 2 in your textbook, create a journal/scrapbook with the following guidelines:
a. Your journal should have an appropriate title.
b. Your journal/scrapbook should be broken into 3 separate sections. One for each colonial region (New England,
Middle, & Southern)
c. Within each of the colonial regions, your journal should address each of the components listed and described
below. * Parts 1, 2, and 3 below must be in each colonial section of the journal/scrapbook.
d. You should include primary source maps, graphs, charts, pictures, newspaper articles, or diary entries when
appropriate to help illustrate your findings of what life was like in each colonial region.
e. Creativity, color, and detail count.
Part One-answer the following questions for each colonial region.
** If there is an exception (a colony that is different than the others within its region, be sure to highlight its
differences.)
REASONS FOR MIGRATION
Why did people in that colony come to
America? What country are they from? For
example: What economic factors encouraged
individuals to leave Europe and settle in
America? Make sure to cite specific examples.
REASON FOR SETTLEMENT
Why did they choose the area where they
settled? What was the reason it was founded?
LEADER(s)
Who were the founders and leaders of the
colony? Who were some of the most
influential people in the colony and why?
NATIVE AMERICANS
What Native Americans were present in the
colonial region? What was their relationship
with the Native Americans in the area?
RULES AND LAWS
What rules and laws were specific to each
colonial region? If a specific colony has a
specific set of laws- be sure to mention that.
HOME LIFE
What was unique to the social structure with
in each colonial region? Describe jobs, schools,
living arrangements, food and entertainment.
GEOGRAPHY
Describe the land, climate and resources.
ECONOMICS
How did they make their money? What did
they produce/export/trade?
MAJOR EVENTS
What were some of the major events to take
place within the colonial region from 16081763?
RELIGIOUS LIFE
What religion had the most influence within
each colony? How was this evident?
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Part Two: Map work
Draw a map of the COLONIAL REGION. Label the colonies within the region. Include the
following on your assigned colonial map.
 Label the major settlements
 Create a MAP KEY and include ALL IMPORTANT symbols used.
 Draw symbols that represent the types of food grown in the colony.
 Put symbols for the types of business/ industries they had.
 Label Rivers, mountains, or other important features. DO NOT label the colony as it is
today! Label the colony, as it was when it was first settled. (This may require additional
research to find a map of colonial America in the 17th century.)
Part Three: Analysis, write one detailed paragraph, about ½ page per region
How do you see the political, social, and economic influence of each colonial region in
contemporary American life?
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