AP US History: Summer Assignment Chapter Vocabulary
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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings 33,000 BC-AD 1769
Before you read: Review these main themes of the chapter.
Theme # I: The first discoveries of America, the ancestors of the American Indies, were small bands of hunters who crossed a temporary land bridge from Siberia and spread across North and South America. They evolved a great variety of cultures, which ranged from sophisticated urban civilizations of Mexico and South American to the semi nomadic societies of North American.
Theme #2: Motivated by economic and technological developments in European society, Portuguese and Spanish explorers encountered and then conquered much of the New World. This "collision or worlds" deeply affected all of the Atlantic societies-Europe, the Americans, and Africa-as the effect of disease, conquest, slavery, and intermarriage began to create a truly "New World."
Chapter One Vocabulary: write the definition and significance of each.
land bridge
maize culture
Pueblo Culture
Iroquois
Eastern Woodlands Crusaders
African slavery system
Old World & New World exchanges European diseases
Conquistadors
encomienda system
Mission system
Chapter 2 Guide: The Planting of English America, 1500-1733
Before you read: Review these main themes of the chapter.
Theme # I: After a late start, a proud, nationalistic England joined the colonial race and successfully established five colonies along the southeastern seacoast of North America. Although varying somewhat in origins and character, all of 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 settlement.
Theme #2: 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 the African Americans.
Chapter Two Vocabulary: write the definition and significance of each.
Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke Colony
Puritans
joint-stock company Jamestown
Pocahontas
"starving time" Powhatan Confederacy House of Burgesses
Lord Baltimore - Maryland as a Catholic Haven indentured servitude
West Indies Sugar
Indian Slave Trade
Georgia
Chapter 3 Guide: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700
Before you read: Review these main themes of the chapter.
Theme # 1: The Protestant Reformation, in its English Calvinist (Reformed) version, provided the impetus for the settlement of New England. The New England colonies developed a fairly homogeneous social order based on religion and semi-communal family and town settlements.
Theme #2: The middle colonies developed with far greater political, ethnic, religious, and social diversity, and represented a more cosmopolitan middle ground between the tightly knit New England towns and the scattered, hierarchical plantation South.
Chapter Three Vocabulary: write the definition and significance of each. Protestant Reformation
Calvinism
Pilgrims
Mayflower Compact Massachusetts Bay Company John Winthrop
Quakers
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Royal Colony
King Philips War
Dominion of New England Salutary Neglect
Dutch East India Company