APUSH 2015-2016

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Unit 1 COMPS 2015 Version

Directions: On the TOP LEFT inside cover of your composition book, label with your FIRST and LAST NAMES/APUSH 2015-2016. I will be checking your homework daily.

R.V. = “Reading Vocabulary” Beginning on the right side, put “CH:1 Vocab” on the top line. DATE and LABEL the reading vocabulary as they appear on the comps sheet. After the term, indicate the page (p.XX) where you found the most relevant information about the term. **Some terms are simply words I think you need to look up to understand. Any dictionary “app” should work fine.

Comps = Comprehensive Chapter Review Questions

Start on a fresh RIGHT page labeled “CH: 1 Comps.” Number them exactly as they are numbered on the comps sheet. Begin each chapter review question with a solid topic sentence that fully answers the prompt. Under your topic sentence, indent and bullet at least 3 items of solid, logical support from the textbook.

Make sure your handwriting is LEGIBLE. **Mark your academic, VACATION, sports, band and social calendars when you get your comps. Late work is not expected from AP students.

The Summer Assignment is the Critical Analysis Worksheet and CH:1/2 Work only. CHS 3 & 4 will begin on the first day of school, but you are welcome to read ahead into CH:3.

DateAm Pag pages

X 5/21 to W 7/29 Read your NON-FICTION book, log reading times and comments, draft worksheet

X 7/30CH:1 p. 2-11; rv.1-16

F 7/31 p. 11-18; rv.17-35

M 8/3 p. 18-25; rv. 36-46/ CH:1 COMPS/CH:1 MC

T 8/4 CH:2 p. 27-33; rv.1-16

W 8/5 p. 33-40; rv.17-39

X 8/6 p. 40-44; rv. 40-55/CH:2 COMPS/CH:2 MC

F 8/7 Finalize your Critical Analysis Worksheet over the weekend—it, along with your composition book with CH:1 and CH:2 work, is due to the main office at FDHS by 5:00 PM on Monday, August 10th.

M 8/10 to 8/14: G-School Orientation/Sports/Band Camp etc…..think about APUSH

M 8/17 After the office opens from lunch (probably 1 PM) you will be able to pick up your composition books to study for the CH:1/2 Quiz on the first day of school.

T 8/18 Enjoy your last night free of APUSH homework until Thanksgiving 

W 8/19CH:3 p.46-51; rv. 1-12

X 8/20 p. 52-58; rv. 13-40

F 8/21 p. 58-64; rv. 41-49/ CH:3 COMPS/CH:3 MC

M 8/24 CH:4 p. 68-74; rv. 1-7

T 8/25 p. 74-81; rv. 8-23

W 8/26 p. 82-86; rv. 24-31/ CH:4 COMPS/CH:4 MC

X 8/27 REVIEW for Unit 1 TEST

Formal Assessment Dates:

8/19 CH:1 and 2 QUIZ, Quiz Vocab 1-20/ 2 SAQs based on CH: 1 & 2

8/27 CH:3 and 4 QUIZ, Quiz Vocab 21-40/2 SAQs based on CH: 3 & 4

8/28 UNIT 1 TEST: APUSH and VASOL portions/ FRQ or DBQ possible.

Chapter 1 Reading Vocabulary p. 1-24

  1. Unfettered
  2. Subjugate
  3. Pious
  4. Homogenous
  5. Intransigence
  6. Supercontinent
  7. Great Ice Age
  8. Canibali (pic)
  9. Vanguard
  10. Pueblo
  11. Mound Builders
  12. **note topics on map 1.2
  13. Cahokia
  14. Three-sister farming
  15. Hiawatha
  16. Iroquois Confederacy
  17. Christian crusaders
  18. Muslim middlemen
  19. Marco Polo
  20. Caravel
  21. Slave brokers
  22. Plantation system
  23. Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
  24. Interdependent global economic system
  25. Columbian Exchange
  26. “sugar revolution”
  27. Syphilis
  28. Treaty of Tordesillas
  29. Conquistadors
  30. Juan Ponce de Leon
  31. Francisco Coronado
  32. Francisco Pizarro
  33. Capitalism
  34. Encomienda system
  35. Bartolome de la Casas
  36. Hernan Cortes
  37. Tenochtitlan
  38. Quetzalcoatl
  39. Effects of the Reconquista
  40. Diverse motives of conquistadors
  41. Mestizoes as cultural bridge
  42. “malinchista”
  43. Giaovanni Caboto
  44. Verrazano & Cartier
  45. Popes Rebellion
  46. Black Legend

Chapter 1 Comps

  1. How true is the following statement: "The Great Ice Age shaped more than the geological history of North America. It also contributed to the origins of the continent's human history."Decide and discuss with evidence from the textbook..
  2. Did the Old World or the New World gain more from the Columbian Exchange? Explain.
  3. 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.
  4. Are the conquistadores to be considered villains or heroes for their actions in the Americas?

Practice for the Quiz: Without using your notes, number and answer the end of Chapter Multiple Choice with a CAPITAL LETTER.

Chapter 2 Reading Vocabulary p. 27-45

  1. European primitive outposts
  2. Protestant Reformation
  3. Roanoke Island
  4. Spanish Armada (see box)
  5. Sir Walter Raleigh
  6. Tudor Rulers table 2.1 **copy
  7. Enclosure movement
  8. Primogeniture
  9. Joint-stock company
  10. Charter (Va Company)
  11. Jamestown
  12. Powhatan
  13. Pocahontas
  14. Cannibalism at Jamestown
  15. First Anglo-Powhatan War
  16. Second Anglo-Powhatan War
  17. Lakotas
  18. Franklin’s commentary on how enticing Indian life was (box)
  19. Algonquins
  20. John Rolfe
  21. “bewitching weed”/ King Nicotine
  22. 1619 slaveship
  23. Va House of Burgesses as “seminary of sedition”
  24. Lord Baltimore
  25. Indentured servants
  26. MD Act of Toleration
  27. “rich man’s crop”
  28. Diaspora
  29. Barbados slave code
  30. Caribbean slave model
  31. King Charles I
  32. Oliver Cromwell
  33. King Charles II
  34. Restoration
  35. Carolina territory
  36. William Penn
  37. Rice
  38. Africans as ideal workers
  39. Charleston
  40. Big plantation gentry
  41. Squatters
  42. “a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit”
  43. NC and RI characteristics
  44. Tuscarora War
  45. Yamasee Indians
  46. GA as a buffer
  47. Philanthropists
  48. James Olgethorpe
  49. Savannah
  50. John Wesley
  51. Absence of free schools and Printing presses
  52. Soil butchery
  53. Tribes in the “League of the Iroquois”
  54. Longhouse
  55. “matrilineal” nature of Iroquois society

CH: 2 Comps:

  1. 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.
  2. Analyze the contribution to European expansion by two of the following developments:
  • Renaissance thought
  • Search for new trade routes
  • New development in technology
  1. Compare and contrast the ways in which tobacco and sugar affected the social and economic development of colonial America.
  2. In which of the colonies mentioned in Chapter 2 would you want to have lived? **You may use “I” for this one. Keep your gender and imagine yourself coming to the New World in about….1650.

Practice for the Quiz: Without using your notes, number and answer the end of Chapter Multiple Choice with a CAPITAL LETTER.

Chapter 3 Reading Vocabulary p. 46-64

  1. Effects of Protestant Reformation
  2. Calvinism
  3. Institutes of Christian Religion
  4. Predestination
  5. Conversion
  6. “visible saints”
  7. Puritans
  8. Separatists** PLEASE LEARN TO SPELL “SEPARATE” NOW…and ALL forms of it!!
  9. Dutchification
  10. Mayflower
  11. Captain Myles Standish
  12. Mayflower Compact
  13. Town meetings
  14. Thanksgiving Day
  15. William Bradford
  16. Massachusetts Bay Colony
  17. Great Migration
  18. “city upon a hill”
  19. Freemen
  20. John Cotton
  21. Protestant ethic
  22. Sumptuary laws
  23. Anne Hutchinson
  24. Antinomianism
  25. Roger Williams
  26. Fundamental Orders
  27. Squanto
  28. Pequot War
  29. Metacom
  30. King Philip’s War
  31. English Civil War
  32. Dominion of New England
  33. Navigation Laws
  34. Glorious Revolution
  35. Sir Edmund Andros
  36. Salutary neglect
  37. Dutch East India Company
  38. New Amsterdam
  39. Patroonships
  40. “babel of immigrant tongues” (reference)
  41. King Gustavus Adolphus
  42. Peter Stuyvesant
  43. Dutch place names in NYC
  44. Quakers
  45. Passive resistance
  46. Chief Tammany
  47. Blue laws
  48. Bread colonies
  49. City of Brotherly Love

Chapter 3 Comps:

  1. **This will be a chart:Compare and contrast the motives of their founders, religious and social orientation, economic pursuits, and political developments of each of the early colonial settlement areas. (South, New England and Middle).
  2. Analyze the extent to which the government of Massachusetts Bay was simultaneously theocratic, democratic, oligarchic, and authoritarian.
  3. State and explain whether or not political authority should be used to enforce a particular view of morality. Then finish this sentence and explain with good reasoning: “Banishing Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson from Massachusetts Bay was justified because…(or was NOT justified because…”)
  4. Construct your OWN definition of Puritanism using the concepts of: predestination, calling, covenant, Protestant ethic, religious conversion and attitudes toward “sex”…use the textbook for elucidation.

Practice for the Quiz: Without using your notes, number and answer the end of Chapter Multiple Choice with a CAPITAL LETTER.

Chapter 4 Reading Vocabulary:p. 68-86

  1. Unhealthy Chesapeake
  2. Freedom dues
  3. Headright system
  4. White slaves
  5. Nathaniel Bacon
  6. African disaspora p. 73
  7. Bacon’s Rebellion & effects
  8. Royal African Company
  9. Middle passage
  10. Slave codes
  11. Gulah
  12. Ringshout
  13. New York slave revolt
  14. South Carolina slave revolt
  15. Stono River
  16. FFVs (include family names)
  17. Slave religion
  18. Negro Spirituals
  19. Jazz
  20. New England “invented grandparents” (explain)
  21. Property rights of women
  22. Midwifery
  23. The Scarlet Letter
  24. Village green
  25. Congregational Church
  26. Jeremiad
  27. Half-Way Covenant
  28. Salem witch trials
  29. Views of land use/ownership
  30. “Dukes don’t emigrate
  31. Leisler’s Rebellion

Chapter 4 Comps:

  1. Why did colonial masters first adopt the institution of indentured servitude and how did black slavery replace indentured servitude?
  2. Identify what YOU believe was the main cause of Bacon's Rebellion: resentment felt by backcountry farmers, Governor Berkeley's Indian policies, or the pressure of the tobacco economy? Justify your choice.
  3. Assess the validity of the following statement, "democracy in church government led logically to democracy in political government."
  4. Compare and contrast the status of women in the South with that in New England.

Practice for the Quiz: Without using your notes, number and answer the end of Chapter Multiple Choice with a CAPITAL LETTER.

Unit Quiz Vocab to learn for the Fill in the Blank/No Word Bank portion of the quiz

  1. Mayflower Compact
  2. William Bradford
  3. Pilgrims and Puritans (you will put ONE on the quiz not both)
  4. John Winthrop
  5. Calvinism
  6. Anne Hutchinson
  7. Roger Williams
  8. Half-way covenant
  9. Thomas Hooker
  10. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
  11. Sir Edmund Andros
  12. Joint stock company
  13. Headright system
  14. John Smith
  15. John Rolfe
  16. Virginia House of Burgesses
  17. Cavaliers
  18. James Oglethorpe
  19. John Locke
  20. William Penn

1-20 will be on the CH:1/2 Quiz on the first day of school

  1. Magna Carta, 1215
  2. Petition of Right, 1628
  3. English Bill of Rights, 1689
  4. Five Nations
  5. Great Awakening
  6. Jonathan Edwards
  7. George Whitefield
  8. Maryland Act of Religious Toleration
  9. Deism
  10. Huguenots
  11. Mercantilism
  12. Navigation Acts
  13. Admiralty courts
  14. Salem Witch trials
  15. Primogeniture
  16. Robert Walpole
  17. Salutary neglect
  18. The Enlightenment
  19. Virtual representation
  20. Town meetings

21-40 will be on the CH:3/4 Quiz

  1. Mayflower Compact

Signed in 1620, this document set up a government for the Plymouth colony and became the first agreement for self-government in America.

  1. William Bradford

This person served as the second governor of the Plymouth colony (1621-1657) and developed private land ownership and helped colonists get out of debt. He helped the colony survive droughts, crop failures, and Indian attacks.

  1. Pilgrims and Puritans contrasted
    The Pilgrims These people were separatists who believed that the Church of England could not be reformed. Because separatist groups were illegal in England, this group fled to America and settled in Plymouth. The Puritans were non-separatists who wished to adopt reforms to purify the Church of England. They received a right to settle in the Massachusetts Bay area from the King of England.
  1. John Winthrop (1588-1649), his beliefs
    1629 – This person became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, and served in that capacity from 1630 through 1649. A Puritan with strong religious beliefs, he opposed total democracy, believing the colony was best governed by a small group of skillful leaders. He helped organize the New England Confederation in 1643 and served as its first president.
  1. Calvinism
    This Protestant sect emphasized a strong moral code and believed in predestination (the idea that God decided whether or not a person would be saved as soon as they were born). Followers supported constitutional representative government and the separation of church and state.
  1. Anne Hutchinson, Antinomianism
    This person preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. Forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637, her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639.
  1. Roger Williams, Rhode Island
    1635 –

This person left the Massachusetts colony and purchased the land from a neighboring Indian tribe to found the colony of Rhode Island. Rhode Island was the only colony at that time to offer complete religious freedom.

  1. Half-way Covenant

This concept applied to those members of the Puritan colonies who were the children of church members, but who had not achieved grace themselves. This allowed them to participate in some church affairs.

  1. Thomas Hooker
    This clergyman was one of the founders of Hartford who was called "the father of American democracy" because he said that people have a right to choose their magistrates.
  1. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
    This first written constitution in America set up a unified government for the towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield.
  1. Sir Edmond Andros
    This person was the governor of the Dominion of New England from 1686 until 1692, when the colonists rebelled and forced him to return to England.
  1. Joint stock company
    This is a company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company’s profits and debts.
  1. Headright system
    This describes a process in which parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists.
  1. John Smith
    This person helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter.
  1. John Rolfe, tobacco
    This person was one of the English settlers at Jamestown . He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony. He is famous for being the man who married Pocahontas.
  1. VA House of Burgesses, 1619 - The Virginia House of Burgesses

Formed in 1619, this was the first legislative body in colonial America. Later, other colonies would adopt

similar bodies.

  1. Cavaliers
    In the English Civil War (1642-1647), these were the troops loyal to Charles I. Their opponents were the Roundheads, who were loyal to Parliament and Oliver Cromwell.
  1. James Oglethorpe
    This person was the founder and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony. Many colonists felt that he behaved as a dictator, and that (along with the colonist’s dissatisfaction over not being allowed to own slaves) caused the colony to break down and he eventually lost his position as governor.
  1. John Locke
    This person was a British political theorist who wrote the Fundamental Constitution for the Carolinas colony, but it was never put into effect. The constitution would have set up a feudalistic government headed by an aristocracy which owned most of the land. He is most known for arguing for justifiable rebellion when a government fails to protect the natural rights of its citizens.
  1. William Penn
    In 1681 this person received a land grant from King Charles II and used it to form a colony that would provide a safe haven for Quakers. His colony, named after him, allowed for religious freedom.
  1. Magna Carta, 1215
    An English document draw up by nobles under King John which limited the power of the king. It has influenced later constitutional documents in Britain and America.
  1. Petition of Right, 1628
    A document drawn up by Parliament’s House of Commons listing grievances against King Charles I and extending Parliament’s powers while limiting the king’s. It gave Parliament authority over taxation, declared that free citizens could not be arrested without cause, declared that soldiers could not be quartered in private homes without compensation, and said that martial law cannot be declared during peacetime.
  1. English Bill of Rights, 1689
    Drawn up by Parliament and presented to King William II and Queen Mary, it listed certain rights of the British people. It also limited the king’s powers in taxing and prohibited the maintenance of a standing army in peacetime.
  1. Five Nations
    The federation of tribes occupying northern New York: the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Senecca, the Onondaga, and the Cayuga. The federation was also known as the "Iroquois," or the League of Five Nations, although in about 1720 the Tuscarora tribe was added as a sixth member. It was the most powerful and efficient North American Indian organization during the 1700s. Some of the ideas from its constitution were used in the Constitution of the United States.
  1. Great Awakening (1739-1744)
    Puritanism had declined by the 1730s, and people were upset about the decline in religious piety. The Great Awakening was a sudden outbreak of religious fervor that swept through the colonies. One of the first events to unify the colonies.
  1. Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, a Careful and Strict Inquiry Into...That Freedom of Will
    Part of the Great Awakening, Edwards gave gripping sermons about sin and the torments of Hell.
  1. George Whitefield
    Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights."
  1. Maryland Act of Toleration (Act of Religious Toleration)
    1649 - Ordered by Lord Baltimore after a Protestant was made governor of Maryland at the demand of the colony's large Protestant population. The act guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians.
  1. Deism