Summer Assignment for AP US History & US History 2016-2017

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Congrats on signing up for Mr. Kogan’s AP US History/US History Extravaganza Bananza! I am very very very excited to teach you guys next year. It’s going to be an awesome, epic, difficult, head-scratching journey. In order to keep pace with the AP Exam and most importantly the course, students need to begin learning and reading for the class during the summer.

The following assignment is due the first week we are back from summer break on Thursday, August 18, 2016.

Follow @MrKoganHistory for updates during the summer.

  1. Follow me on twitter @MrKoganHistory for updates during the summer.
  2. Sign up for Remind. Text @sumapush1to81010 for updates.
  3. Watch 5 Videos and Take Notes (using outlines provided)
  4. FOR APUSH ONLY:Read Chapters 1 & 2 in Zinn Book(A People's History of the United States) (comprehension and discussion questions will be provided when we return from summer break.
  5. FOR APUSH ONLY: Practice Colonies Test - You must get 100% correct, and it must be completed by Friday of Week 1.
  1. View, Summary, Analysis (ViSAs)
  2. Watch the 5 videos below. Mr. Kogan filmed his lectures and posted them on YouTube for you to watch and review. Go to the link below and watch Mr. Kogan’s videos. If you do not have internet access over the summer, please let me know as soon as possible, and we will work something out.
  3. Summarize each video using the outlines provided. All videos are also posted on the Mr. Kogan’s Ivy website.
  4. ALL WORK MUST BE HANDWRITTEN IN BLUE OR BLACK INK PEN.

Reading - FOR APUSH ONLY

  1. Read Chapters 1 & 2 of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
  2. You can get the book at the library, Barnes & Nobles, Amazon

OR got to the links below

  1. Not completing the assignment means not only a poor grade on your first assignment, but means that you will already be behind, stressed, and tired. DON’T BE THAT PERSON. COME TO CLASS READY, LOUD AND PROUD. This is US History. Unless your life and this world is absolutely perfect then we still need to learn about our history to make it a more perfect and happy society.

Videos to Watch

#1 - New Beginnings & Native Americans

#2 - European Expansion & Columbian Exchange

#3 - European Expansion: Colonial Motivations

#4 New England Colonies

#5 Chesapeake Bay Colonies

1 – New Beginnings & Native Americans

  1. Did Christopher Columbus “discover” America? Explain why or why not?

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  1. What is a Pangaea? What evidence is there for the Pangaea Theory?

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  1. What are the impacts of the Ice age?

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  1. Explain the significance of Agriculture, and the Pueblo using Agriculture?

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  1. How did the Native Americans in the Northeast/Eastern America live?

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  1. How did the Native American in the Great Basin and Western Great Plains?

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  1. What are perceptions of Native Americans by Europeans?

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  1. What technologies did the Native American have? Or Not have?

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  1. What are the differences between the Europeans and Native Americans?

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  1. What was the biggest disrupter of indigenous life? What would lead to European dominance?

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#2 - European Expansion & Columbian Exchange – Guided Viewing Notes

  1. Viking Exploration

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  1. Portuguese Exploration

a)Why were they first? ______

b)Description of Technologies: ______

c)Motivations:______

  1. Why were the Portuguese interested in China?

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b)______

  1. Portugal and Slavery

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b)______

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Christopher Columbus

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Columbian Exchange: What does each side get?

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Effect of Columbian Exchange

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What is the Treaty Line of Tordasillas? What is the legacy?

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How do the Spanish treat the Indigenous populations in America?

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b)______

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#3 Colonization Patterns: Spanish, French, Dutch & English – Guided Viewing Notes

  1. Spanish Motivations
  2. God:______
  3. Glory:______
  4. God: ______
  1. Who agreed and disagreed with the Encomienda System and Why?
  2. Juan de Sepulveda: ______
  3. Bartolome de Las Casas: ______
  1. How did the Spanish control the Native American? How did the Native Americans respond to Spanish colonization?

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  1. What kind of people settled the New World from Spain?

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  1. What happened to the Spanish Armada? What is the Significance of that naval battle?

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  1. What was the first Spanish settlement?
  2. What was the first English settlement? What happened to it?
  1. What were the English motivations for colonization? Explain Joint Stock Company.

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  1. What kind of labor did the English use to cultivate the sugar plantations? How did it change?

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  1. Explain the ways European ideas of slavery was different than African forms slavery?

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  1. What were the English views on race?

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  1. How did slaves resist slavery?

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  1. French! What were their motivations for colonization’? Did they intermarry with indigenous populations?

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  1. Dutch! What were their motivations for colonization? Did they intermarry with indigenous populations?

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#4 New England Colonies

  1. Who were the Puritans? What did they believe in (~min 4)

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  1. What were their motivation in establishing the Plymouth Colony

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  1. What is the makeup of the Puritans? Only Men? Only Women? How were women treated?

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  1. Who is the leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? What is the “City on a Hill?

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  1. What is the Great Puritan Migration?

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  1. What is the Puritan Work Ethic?

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  1. Explain the New England Economy.

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  1. What is the role of slavery in New England? How is it different than the Southern Colonies?

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  1. Explain the role of Religion in New England? What happens to those who disagreed with the religious views of the Puritans?

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  1. Explain the role of Education in New England? What happens to those who disagreed with the religious?

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  1. Explain the role Government in New England? What is the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

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  1. Explain New England’s relationship with the Native American? Explain the Significance of the Pequot War?

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  1. Why were the New England colonies successful?

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#5 Chesapeake Bay Colonies (Virginia & Maryland)

  1. Why England dominate North America?
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  1. What were the motivations for colonization for England specifically Virginia Company (1606)

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  1. Why did Virginia experience “Starving Time”
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  1. How does John Smith save Jamestown?

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  1. Explain the Role of Tobacco in Jamestown, Virginia. Who plants tobacco first in Virginia?

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  1. Explain the Chesapeake colonies’ relationship with Native American?

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  1. Explain the role of Government in the Chesapeake Colonies?

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  1. Explain the role of Religion in the Chesapeake Colonies?

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