APUSH Chapter 1Ms. McCoy
Terms to know:
Marco Polo
Francisco Pizarro
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernando de Soto
Montezuma
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortes
Fransisco Coronado
Robert de La Salle
Jacques Cartier
Giovanni Da Verranzano
John Cabot
Vasco Nunez Balboa
Ferdinand of Aragon
Isabella of Castile
Quetzalcoatl
Bartholomeu Dias
Hiawatha
BArtolome de Las Casas
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco Da Gama
Describe the historical significance of the following:
Renaissance
Mestizos
Treaty of Tordesillas
‘Three sister’ farming
Great Ice Age
Canadian Sheild
Mound Builders
Spanish Armada
Black legend
Conquistadores
Aztecs
Pope’s Rebellion
Pueblo Indians
Iroquois Confederacy
Cartography
Native Americans
Vineland
St. Augustine, Florida
Kiva
Spice Islands
Moors
Ecosystem
Encomienda
Malinchista
Dia de la Raza
Be able to answer:
1. Describe the impact of Europeans on Native American (Indian) cultures and the impact of native cultures on Europeans. Then explain why it was or was not a good thing that European culture prevailed.
2. Summarize the motives, expectations, problems and rewards associated with the age of European Expansion.
3. It is sometimes said that the Europeans who came to the Americas settled a “virgin land” that was unused and unspoiled. Write an essay demonstrating that this is or is not an accurate description of what happened.
4. Write your definition of culture. Then use your definition to compare the cultures of Native Americans and Europeans
5. Write your definition of the concept of discovery. Then use this definition to demonstrate that Columbus was or was not the person who discovered America
6. What was the nature of slavery in American before the arrival of the Spanish?
7. Are the conquistadores to be considered villains or heroes for their actions in the Americas?
8. Assess the validity of the following statement, “Columbus’s sensational achievement obscures the fact that he was one of the most successful failures in history.”
9. Describe both the positive and negative benefits of the Columbian Exchange on the New and Old world.
10. Describe what is meant by the Spanish ‘Black Legend.’ What is your assessment of the Spanish impact on North American cultures – positive or negative? Why?
APUSHChapter 2Ms. McCoy
Terms to know:
Lord De La Warr
Pocahontas
Powhatan
Handsome Lake
John Rolfe
Lord Baltimore
Walter Raleigh
James Oglethorpe
Humphry Gilbert
Oliver Cromwell
John Smith
John Wesley
Francis Drake
Geirge Percy
William Penn
Richard Hakluyt
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Philip II
James I
Charles I
Charles II
Deganawidah and Hiawatha
George II
Joint-stock company
Enclosure
House of Burgesses
Royal Charter
Slave codes
Yeoman
Proprietor
Longhouse
Squatter
Law of primogeniture
Indentured servitude
Starving time
Sea dogs
First Anglo-Powhatan War
Second Anglo-Pohawtan War
Maryland Act of Toleration
Barbados Slave code
Virginia Company
Restoration
Act of Toleration
Savannah Indians
Iroquois Confederacy
Santa Fe
Quebec
Jamestown
Charlestown
Protestant Reformation
Spanish Armada
Powhatan’s Confederacy
Chesapeake
English Civil War
Be able to answer the following questions:
1. What lessons do you think English colonists learned from their early Jamestown experience? Focus on matters of fulfilling expectations, financial support, leadership skills and relations with the Indians. What specific developments illustrate that the English living in the plantation colonies tried to apply these lessons?
2. In many ways, North Carolina was the LEAST typical of the five plantation colonies Describe the unique features of colonial North Carolina and explain why this colony was so unlike its southern neighbors.
3. Write your definition of progress. Then use this definition to demonstrate that the discovery of America did or did not lead to progress in human history.
4. Analyze the contribution of European expansion by TWO of the following developments.
Renaissance thought
Search for new trade routes
New development in technology
5. Rank the items in the following list, starting with the one that you think and the most important consequences. Then justify your ranking. Finally, speculate as to what might have happened had these events not occurred.
The cultivation of tobacco in Virginia
The introduction of slavery into the plantation colonies
The ‘enclosing’ of croplands in England
6. Compare and contrast the ways in which tobacco and sugar affected the social and economic development of colonial America.
7. Discuss English treatment of the Irish and its consequences.
8. Assess the validity of the following statement, by the end of the 16th century, “Spain had overreached itself, sowing the seeds of its own decline.