Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH)
Summer Assignments
2017-2018
Mr. Jamie Nack
APUSH is an accelerated and advanced US History course that is similar to a college-survey class. The class will cover the time period starting with pre-Columbian Native Americans through the present. This includes chronological coverage of major eras, periods, and events as well as American economic, cultural, social, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history.
The AP U.S. History course focuses on the development of historical thinking skills (chronological reasoning, comparing and contexualizing, crafting historical arguments using historical evidence, and interpreting and synthesizing historical narrative) and the development of students’ abilities to think conceptually about U.S. history from approximately 1491 to the present. Seven themes of equal importance – American and National Identity; Migration and Settlement; Politics and Power; Work, Exchange, and Technology; America in the World; Geography and the Environment; and Culture and Society – provide areas of historical inquiry for investigation throughout the course. These require students to reason historically about continuity and change over time and make comparisons among various historical developments in different times and places. The course also allows teachers flexibility across nine different periods of U.S. history to teach topics of their choice in depth
In order to be successful in APUSH, students must possess excellent skills in the areas of both reading comprehension and writing. Students also need to understand that they will need to commit several hours a week to reading the text, primary sources, and study for tests.
Students are also expected to take the AP History Exam at their own expense. The exam is in three parts: 1.) 55 multiple-choice questions in 55 minutes, 2.) One Document Based Question (DBQ), and 3.) Four Short Answer questions, and 4.) one long essay.
Our main text book for the class will be The American Pageant 12th Edition. We will also incorporate various primary sources and supplemental readings.
Summer Work
· Read Chapters 1-4 in the American Pageant. For each chapter, you will be required to make an outline/notes. The outline should highlight the main topics for each chapter. Obviously, none of you will choose to organize the chapters in the same way. There is no “right way”. I am checking primarily for comprehension and organizational skills. The skill is to be able to focus on the main ideas. A typical outline will consist of several pages for each chapter (3-4). Failure to do this will result in a 0 on the test. The outlines need to be hand written.
· Complete the Key Ideas Assignment and Terms for Chapters 1-4
· Complete the charts on the colonies
· Read Chapter 1 & 2 of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
· Website for the Summer work: http://iblog.dearbornschools.org/nack/2017/06/02/apush-summer-work-2017-18/
· All of the reading material will be available from my blog: (http://iblog.dearbornschools.org/nack/2017/06/02/apush-summer-work-reading-2017/). I will have a limited number of American Pageant books available to pick up from my classroom (A103) at the start of June.
Summer Work
Ch. 1-4 Key Ideas
Ch. 1
Questions
1. Describe the origins and development of the major Indian cultures of the Americas
2. Explain the developments in Europe and Africa that led Columbus to voyage east towards
the Americas
3. Explain the changes and conflicts that occurred when the diverse worlds of Europe, Africa, and the Americas collided in 1492 (Columbian Exchange)
4. Describe the Spanish conquest of Mexico and South America and identify the major features of Spanish colonization and expansion in North America
Terms- at least two lines describing each term and how it relates to early North American History.
Land bridge maize Pueblo Three-sister farming Iroquois Confederacy
Matrilineal Norse/Vikings Crusades Caravel Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Todesillas Christopher Columbus Balboa Magellan Dias
Ponce de Leon Coronado De Soto Pizarro Cortes
Encomienda John Cabot Jacques Cartier Pope’s Rebellion Black Legend
Ch. 2
Questions
1. Summarize the major factors that led England to begin colonization
2. Describe the development of the Jamestown colony from its disastrous beginnings to its later prosperity
3. Describe the cultural and social interactions and exchange between English settlers and Indians in Virginia and the effects of the Virginians’ policy of warfare and forced removal
4. Describe the changes in the economy and labor system in Virginia and other southern colonies
Terms-at least two lines describing each term and how it relates to early American Colonial History.
Sea dogs Walter Raleigh Spanish Armada Enclosure Movement
Primogeniture Joint-Stock Companies Jamestown John Smith
Anglo-Powhatan War Starving Time Three D’s John Rolfe House of Burgesses
Lord Baltimore Act of Toleration West Indies Carolinas Georgia
Plantation Economy
Ch. 3
Questions
1. Describe the Puritans and their beliefs and explain why they left England for the New World
2. Explain the basic religious and governmental ideas and practices of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
3. Explain how the Massachusetts Bay conflict with religious dissenters as well as economic opportunities led to the expansion of New England into Rhode Island, Connecticut, and elsewhere
4. Describe the conflict between the colonists and Indians in New England and the effects of King Phillip’s War
5. Summarize early New England attempts at intercolonial unity, and the consequences of England’s Glorious Revolution in America
Terms-at least two lines describing each term and how it relates to early American Colonial History
Martin Luther John Calvin Puritans Separatists Dutchification
Mayflower Mayflower Compact Massachusetts Bay Colony “City upon a hill”
Anne Hutchinson Roger Williams Massasoit Pequot War Metacom
New England Confederation Glorious Revolution Henry Hudson New Sweden
William Penn Middle Colonies
Ch. 4
Questions
1. Compare and contrast the differences in the ways of life of southern and New England colonies
2. Explain how the practice of indentured servitude failed to solve the colonial labor problem, and why colonists turned to slavery
3. Describe the slave trade and the character of early African American slavery
4. Summarize the unique New England way of life centered on family, town, and church
5. Describe the role of family life and the roles of women in the 17th century colonies and indicate how these changed over time
Terms-at least two lines describing each term and how it relates to early American Colonial History
Indentured servitude headright system Bacon’s Rebellion Middle Passage
FFV’s Half-Way Covenant Salem Witch Trials Leisler’s Rebellion
Settlement of the Colonies in the Americas
New England Colonies
Colony(Year) / Settlers
(Ethnic Groups) / Religions / Reasons for Coming / Colonial Government/
Relations w/ Native Americans/
Main Economic Source
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Middle Colonies
Colony(Year) / Settlers
(Ethnic Groups) / Religions / Reasons for Coming / Colonial Government/
Relations w/ Native Americans/ Main Economic Source
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Southern Colonies
Colony(Year) / Settlers
(Ethnic Groups) / Religions / Reasons for Coming / Colonial Government/
Relations w/ Native Americans/
Main Economic Source
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
European Colonization of North America
Spanish Colonization / French Colonization / Dutch Colonization / English ColonizationMotives
(Why were they colonizing?)
Location
(Where were the colonies located?)
Life in the Colonies
(What was life like?)
Decline
(What were some reasons for the downfall?)
Economy
(What was the main economic activity or what types of business flourished)
Zinn Assignment
Directions: Go to the Website: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
You will be responsible for reading chapters 1( Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress) and 2 (Drawing the Color Line) of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
As you read chapters 1 & 2 of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, fully answer the questions to the best of your ability.
Zinn Chapter 1- Study questions
1. According to Zinn, what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States?
2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11?
3. According to Zinn, how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books?
4. Why does Zinn dispute Henry Kissinger’s statement: “History is the memory of states?”
5. Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to oppress indigenous peoples.
6. What was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians?
7. Explain Governor John Winthrop’s legal and biblical justification for seizing Indian land.
8. Explain the main tactic of warfare used by the English against the Indians.
9. According to Roger Williams, how did the English usually justify their attacks on the Indians?
10. What ultimately happened to the estimated 10 million Indians living in North America at the time of Columbus’ arrival?
11. How does Zinn attempt to prove that the Indians were not inferior? Provide examples.
Zinn Chapter 2- Study questions
1. According to Zinn, what is the root of racism in America?
2. Why were Africans considered “better” slaves than Indians in Virginia?
3. How did 16th century Africa compare to 16th century Europe politically, economically, and militarily?
4. How did slavery in Africa differ from slavery in Europe and the Americas?
5. Describe the conditions that slaves on ships coming to America (“Middle Passage”).
6. How did the slave trade begin in North America?
7. In terms of mortality, what was the cost of slavery? How was Africa impacted over that 300 year time period?
8. What evidence exists that America’s slaves did not accept their fate easily?