AP US History Summer Assignment (2017-1018)

Instructor Contact: Susan Schock

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All assignments must be handwritten. Parts A, B, and C are due the first day of class. Part D is for Unit 2 and will not be due until the second week of class. I thought some of you might want to complete it in advance.

Resources: Listed below are links to sites that will be helpful in completing the summer assignment. There are many other resources available to you on the internet. Please make certain any resources you use other than those below are legitimate and address the topic appropriately.

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(Digital History website)

Part A: Unit 1 Words, Terms and People (1491-1607)

Please complete handwritten definitions for each of the words, terms, and people below. You may complete the definitions on notecards or notebook paper. Include historical significance within the time period and dates for specific events.

  1. Agricultural Revolution
  2. Atlantic Community
  3. Bartolomé de Las Casas
  4. Cahokia
  5. capitalism
  6. caste system
  7. Chaco Canyon
  8. Christopher Columbus
  9. Columbian Exchange
  10. culture
  11. democracy
  12. demographic
  13. diversification
  14. Doctrine of Discovery (1493)
  15. Dutch West India Company
  16. encomienda
  17. epidemic
  18. ethnic
  19. feudalism
  20. Francisco Pizarro
  21. gender roles
  22. Ghana, Mali, Benin, Congo and Songhay
  23. Great Basin
  24. Great Plains
  25. Hernando Cortés
  26. Hernando de Soto
  27. indigenous
  28. John White
  29. joint stock company
  30. Juan de Oñate

  1. labor
  2. maize (more than corn)
  3. maritime
  4. maroon community
  5. matrilineal
  6. Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas
  7. mercantilism
  8. mestizo, mulatto and zambo
  9. migration
  10. Mississippian culture
  11. Northwest Passage
  12. Ordinances of Discovery (1573)
  13. patterns of exchange
  14. presidio
  15. Prince Henry
  16. Protestant Reformation
  17. Pueblo Revolt (1680)
  18. Reconquista
  19. Smallpox
  20. social mobility
  21. Spanish Armada
  22. St. Augustine
  23. subjugation
  24. subsistence agriculture
  25. technology

Part B: Using the link to the Gilder-Lehrman site complete the following assignments:

  1. Use the video introduction to Period 1 and the Timeline of Events for Period 1 to complete a list of important facts to know from the period 1491 – 1607. Consider 15 facts to be the minimum requirement.
  2. Read and Review the Documents presented for Period 1. A very important part of AP US History is learning to analyze documents and incorporating documents into written assignments. As you review the documents THINK about the reason for the document, the source of the document, the audience for the document, and the impact of the document. We will go over these documents in class so be prepared to answer questions in class the first week of the semester.
  3. Video Assignments: View the video you are assigned. You are responsible for taking notes on the information in preparation for a group activity the first week of class.
  4. Last names beginning with letters A – F: View Philip Morgan – The African Slave Trade, 1500-1800
  5. Last names beginning with letters G – L: View Charles C. Mann – America Before Columbus
  6. Last names beginning with letters M – R:View Brian DeLay – Europeans and the New World, 1400-1530
  7. Last names beginning with letters S – Z: View John Fea – Gold, Gospel, and Glory: Motivation for European Exploration and Colonization of the Americas
  8. Essay Assignments: Read the essay you are assigned. You are responsible for taking notes on the information in preparation for a group activity the first week of class.
  9. Last names beginning with letters A – F: Read Indian Slavery in the Americas
  10. Last names beginning with letters G – L: Read The Imperial Rivalries
  11. Last names beginning with letters M – R: ReadThe Americas to 1620
  12. Last names beginning with letters S – Z: Read Columbian Exchange

Part C: The Zinn Assignment

  1. In preparation for this assignment please click the link below and read the Howard Zinn biography.
  1. Click the link below to read Chapter 1 of Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Please complete a handwritten two to three page summary of this chapter.

(Zinn, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress)

(Good information about how to write a summary)

Information to include in your summary:

  • Zinn’s goal for writing history (including methodology)
  • Zinn’s presentation of historical figures
  • Zinn’s presentation of European attitudes and Native culture

Part D: Unit 2 Words, Terms, and People (1607-1754)

  1. Anglicization
  2. Anne Hutchinson
  3. antinomianism
  4. Bacon’s Rebellion
  5. cash crop
  6. cereal crops
  7. chattel
  8. Chesapeake
  9. “city upon a hill”
  10. commerce
  11. Enlightenment
  12. evangelicalism
  13. First Great Awakening
  14. General Court (Massachusetts)
  15. George Whitefield
  16. Great Puritan Migration
  17. Halfway Covenant
  18. Harvard College
  19. headright system
  20. hierarchical
  21. House of Burgesses
  22. imperial system
  23. indentured servant
  24. indigo
  25. Iroquois Confederation
  26. James Oglethorpe
  27. Jamestown
  28. John Locke
  29. John Peter Zenger
  30. John Rolfe
  31. John Winthrop
  32. joint stock company
  33. Jonathan Edwards
  34. King Philip’s War (including who was King Philip)
  35. Maryland Toleration Act
  36. Massachusetts Bay Colony
  37. Mayflower Compact
  38. Middle Colonies
  39. Middle Passage
  40. mixed economy
  41. mound builders
  42. New Amsterdam (Netherland)
  43. New England Confederation
  44. New Orleans
  45. Olaudah Equiano
  46. patroon
  47. Pequot War
  48. Phillis Wheatley
  49. Pilgrims
  50. Powhatan (person and tribe)
  51. plantation economy
  52. pluralism
  53. Plymouth
  54. proprietary colony
  55. Providence
  56. Puritans
  57. Quakers
  58. Queen Anne’s War
  59. religious diversity
  60. rice
  61. Roger Williams
  62. royal colony
  63. Salem Witch Trials (look for time period and causation)
  64. salutary neglect
  65. Scotch Irish (who and locations settled)
  66. slave trade (origins and methods of trade)
  67. starving time
  68. Stono Rebellion
  69. tobacco
  70. town meeting
  71. Trade and Navigation Acts
  72. visible saints (the elect)
  73. Wampanoag (person and tribe)
  74. William Bradford
  75. William Penn