Global Communities: American History 401



Global Communities: U.S. History 4340

Summer Assignment/Preparation for Honors

We are excited to work with you all next year as we continue your exploration of Global Communities Program, focusing more on United States history and culture. The honors section of the class will be a unique mix of preparation for the Advanced Placement exam and other in-depth exploration of class ideas and sources. Consequently, at times your work will look like the work that your peers in standard AP courses are doing, but at other times your work will look considerably different. In any case, we will expect you to go into greater depth than your Advanced College Prep and College Prep colleagues, and you will do independent work, as well as your prepare for the AP exam.

To prepare you for the fall, please do the following two items this summer:

1. Read chapters 1-5 in the following AP prep book, and take notes on the attached study guide. Like your AP peers, you’ll have a review test on this material with in the first week of school.

Newman, John J. and Schmalbach, John M. United States History: Preparing for the Advanced

Placement Examination. NY: AMSCO Publications, Inc., 2010.

The book can be purchased online for less than $20, especially if you get a barely used copy. In addition, former AP students may have old copies they’d give you or sell you cheaply. Please note that this is NOT the newly released version of the AMSCO US history preparatory book; that version is selling for $40 online, and we do not expect you to buy that.

During the course of the year, you will be required to read and take notes from this book to supplement the regular textbook readings. We will refer to this book as AMSCO during the year. Chapters 1 through much of chapter 5 review the material for the review test in September, which will cover through the Revolution.

2. Also, read chapters 27 to 30 in your AMSCO book and take notes on the key ideas in those chapters; we may have less time to review this material (roughly 1950 to the present) later in the year, so it’s important that you become somewhat familiar with it now, to help us be more effective in preparing for the AP examination come April and May. Take it from this year’s Junior Honors section: you’ll be glad you did this come springtime, when we’re reviewing for the AP test! This material will NOT be on the initial quiz in September.

Have a restful and fun break, and look forward to some good work this upcoming year! If you have any questions, you can email Mr. Thompson at andrew_thompson@newton.k12.ma.us or Ms. Eng at lily_engshine@newton.k12.ma.us.

Global Junior Honors Colonial History Review Sheet

The following terms are arranged by topic and generally by textbook chapter. In a couple cases, the terms may not be in AMSCO. If that’s so, you should consult another source, such as a Brinkley book or one of these online resources:



EXPLORATION (Chapter 1)

Motivation for exploration

Technology

Financing exploration

Portuguese, Spanish, French, English Explorers and the race for empires

Treaty of Tordisellas

Origin of Native Americans

Native American tribal culture

Meso-American cultures: Maya and Aztec

South American culture: Inca

Eastern North American culture: Iroquois

Ethnocentrism,confrontation,exploitation,disease

Spanish conquest

Spanish social, political, and economic domination

French social, political, and economic system in New World

French relations with American Indians

ENGLISH SETTLE IN NORTH AMERICA (Chapters 1-3)

Roanoke

Jamestown

English colonial charters

Joint Stock companies

House of Burgesses

Early English colonial economy

Slavery in English colonies

Headright system/indentured servants

English view of colonies and colonists

3 types of English colonies

Separatists/Mayflower Compact

Puritans and Mass. Bay Colony

Patterns of settlement and village growth

Society and government of Mass. Bay

Puritan oligarchy

Dissent in Mass. Bay

Pequot War

King Philip's War

The Restoration Colonies

Georgia and Oglethorpe

Society and cultures of the Northern, Middle, Southern colonies

Frontier/conflict of Piedmont vs. coastal elite

Economic development of colonial regions

British mercantilism/Period of Salutary Neglect

The Dominion of New England

Divergence between the English colonies and the homeland

Effects of land and indentured servants on colonial society

Structure and function of English colonial government; early government precedents in colonies

Family life in the colonies

Slavery and the slave system in the English colonies

British restriction on colonial economic growth

The Great Awakening

The Enlightenment

Education and literacy in the colonies

Colonial science

FRENCH & INDIAN WAR (Chapter 4)

Land, fur, Indians and power

European politics

Fort Necessity & George Washington

Fort Duquesne & Braddock's Defeat

Course of the war until William Pitt

Battle of Quebec

Treaty of Paris & The English Empire

Effects of the war on American colonists

Effects of the war on England

GROWING TENSIONS (Chapter 4)

Reasons for England re-asserting control

Pontiac's Revolt

Proclamation Line/American resentment

Navigation Acts/Writs of Assistance

Stamp Act/Stamp Act Congress/Sons of Liberty

Paxton Boys/Regulators

American reaction to Acts and Taxes

Declaratory Act

Townshend Duties/Committees of Correspondence

Boston Massacre

Rights of English Subjects/The Enlightenment Ideology and philosophy of the Revolution

Virtual vs. Actual Representation

Loyalist/Rebel points of view

Tea Tax/Tea Party/English outrage

Coercive Acts

THE REVOLUTION (Chapter 5)

lst Continental Congress/Suffolk Resolves

Lexington & Concord/Bunker Hill

The Declaration of Independence & Ideology

Sovereignty of the people/Rights of Man

2nd Continental Congress & its role

Loyalists, Blacks, Women during the war

Financing the War

Battles & Campaigns

Continental Army/militia

Siege of Boston

Battle of New York/Hessians

Fall of Philadelphia

Valley Forge

Burgoyne and Saratoga

1778 Treaty with France

Western campaign

Southern campaign/British strategy/ Yorktown/Treaty of Paris

THE CONFEDERATION PERIOD (Chapter 5)

Assumptions of republicanism

Nature of the new state governments

Voter qualifications

Revision of state constitutions

Virginia Statute of Religious Liberties

The question of slavery; actions of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania

The problem of emancipation

Growth of abolitionist activity

Structure of the Confederation Government

Powers and problems of the Confederation Congress

The western land issue/land speculation

Achievements of the Confederation

Diplomatic problems of the new nation

Westward expansion

Land Ordinance of 1785

Townships

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Postwar depression and the problem of debt in the states

Shays’ Rebellion and the specter of anarchy

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