AP United States History
CSS 11.1, 11.3
Unit 1 – Exploration and Colonization (1492 – 1780)
Chapters 1 – 5 (p. 1 – 161)
Instructions: Please write out your answers for the short answer questions on one paper. Define the vocabulary terms Cornell style 2 – 3 sentences per term.
Chapter 1 – A Continent of Villages (to 1500) p. 2 – 29
1. Aztec Empire (14)2. Hiawatha (24) / 3. Iroquois Federation (23, 80)
4. Montezuma (--)
1. Why did the development of farming lead to increasing social complexity? Discuss the reasons why organized political activity began in farming societies.
Chapter 2 – When Worlds Collide (1492 – 1590) p. 30 – 57
1. Black Legend (42)2. John Calvin (48)
3. Church of England (50)
4. Christopher Columbus (37)
5. conquistadore (--)
6. Francisco Coronado (46)
7. Hernan Cortez (40)
8. Enclosure Acts (50)
9. encomienda (39)
10. Sir Humphrey Gilbert (51)
11. Huguenots (48) / 12. mestizos (46)
13. Northwest Passage (47)
14. Francisco Pizarro (43)
15. predestination (49)
16. Protestant Reformation (48)
17. Sir Walter Raleigh (51)
18. Roanoke (52)
19. Spanish Armada (52)
20. St. Augustine (50)
21. Treaty of Tordesillas (46)
1. Make a list of the major exchanges that took place between the Old World and the New World in the centuries following the European invasion of America. Discuss some of the effects these exchanges had on the course of modern history.
2. In what ways did colonial contact in the Northeast differ from contacts in the Caribbean and Mexico?
Chapter 3 –Planting Colonies in North America (1588 - 1701) p. 58 – 89
2. antinomianism (--)
3. Bacon’s Rebellion (80)
4. Board of Trade (83)
5. William Bradford (71)
6. Samuel de Champlain (62)
7. coureurs de bois (63)
8. Oliver Cromwell (73)
9. Dominion of New England (81)
10. freedom dues (69)
11. Fundamental Orders (--)
12. General Court (72, 138)
13. Glorious Revolution (81)
14. Great Puritan Migration (72)
15. headright system (66)
16. Thomas Hooker (75)
17. House of Burgesses (67)
18. Henry Hudson (64)
19. Anne Hutchinson (76)
20. indentured servitude (69)
21. Jamestown (65)
22. joint stock company (65)
23. King Philip’s War (79)
24. Robert La Salle (63)
25. Leisler’s Rebellion (82)
26. Lord Baltimore (68) / 27. Maryland Act of Toleration (--)
28. Massachusetts Bay Company (72)
29. Mayflower Compact (71)
30. Metacom/ King Philip (79)
31. New Amsterdam (77)
32. New England Confederation (--)
33. patroon (--)
34. William Penn (77)
35. Pequot War (79)
36. Pilgrims/ Separatists (71)
37. Pocahontas (66)
38. Popé’s Rebellion (61)
39. Powhatan Confederacy (65)
40. Puritans (70)
41. Quakers (77)
42. quitclaim (73)
43. John Rolfe (66)
44. royal colony (67)
45. Salem Witch Trials (75)
46. John Smith (65)
47. Squanto (--)
48. starving time (--)
49. Peter Stevuyesant ()
50. Virginia Company (65)
51. Roger Williams (76)
52. John Winthrop (72)
1. Using examples drawn from this chapter, discuss the differences between colonizing “frontiers of inclusion” and “exclusion” and the nations that implemented them.
2. What factors turned England’s Chesapeake colony of Virginia from stark failure to brilliant success?
3. Discuss the role of religious dissent in the founding of the first New England colonies and in stimulating the creation of others.
4. Compare and contrast William Penn’s policy with respect to Indian tribes with the policies of other English settlers, in the Chesapeake and New England, and with the policies of the Spanish, the French, and the Dutch.
5. What were the principal causes of colonial violence and warfare of the late seventeenth century?
Chapter 4 –Slavery and Empire (1441 – 1770) p. 90 - 127
Olaudah Equiano (95, 100)
FFVs (120)
Ft. Louisbourg (117, 137)
gullah (109)
Hat. Iron, and Wool Acts (117)
mercantilism (115)
middle passage (98)
Molasses Act (--) / mulatto (101, 121)
Natchez Rebellion (105)
Navigation Acts (117)
James Oglethorpe (104)
Royal African Company (96)
salutary neglect (117)
slave codes (102, 107)
Stono Rebellion (112)
triangle trade (113, 114)
1. Trace the development of the system of slavery, and discuss the way it became entrenched in the Americas.
2. Describe the process of acculturation involved in becoming an African American. In what ways did slaves “Africanize” the South?
3. In what ways did colonial policy encourage the growth of racism?
Chapter 5 – The Cultures of Colonial North America (1700 – 1780) p. 128 – 161
conversion experience (153)Michel de Crevecoeur (--)
Jonathan Edwards (153)
the elect/ visible saints (--)
Benjamin Franklin (144, 146)
freemen (138)
Great Awakening (154)
Halfway Covenant (153) / Cotton Mather (151)
Old vs. New Lights (154)
Poor Richard’s Almanac (152)
Scots-Irish (147)
Father Juniperra Serra (136)
town meeting (143)
George Whitefield (154)
1. What were the three principal colonial regions of North America? Discuss their similarities and their differences. Contrast the development of their political systems.
2. Why did the Spanish and the French close their colonies to immigration? Why did the British open theirs? How do you explain the ethnic homogeneity of New England and the ethnic pluralism of New York and Pennsylvania?
3. What were the principal trends in the history of Indian America in the eighteenth century?
4. Discuss the development of class differences in the Spanish, French, and British colonies in the eighteenth century.
5. Discuss the effects of the Great Awakening on the subsequent history of the British colonies.
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