AP SUMMER assignment



AP US history SUMMER assignment 2013

Scoopmire

Welcome to Advanced Placement United States History! In order to help us get the most out of this class and to provide a cushion for your grade as you transition from covering ONE semester of college level material (as you covered if you took AP European history or regular World History), to covering TWO semesters worth of material, I have created this summer assignment for some sizeable EXTRA CREDIT.

I’ll say it again, this is EXTRA CREDIT, but NECESSARY, and will raise your semester 1 grade approximately 3 percentage points. This is a LOT of extra credit. You seriously want to do it.

The purposes are many: First, it will make you familiar with the textbook. Second, it will allow you to raise your grade. Third, it will make you ready for the first test of the year over chapters 1-4 in the second week of school. Fourth, we will be glad to have covered this material quickly after our sixth snow day hits next year. This assignment helps us to avoid that problem. Fifth, it enables us to spend more time on review at the end of the year. Sixth, did I mention it will raise your grade????? I thought so.

In 2011, the Document Based Essay on the AP US history exam was about Richard Nixon, whose presidency was from 1968-1974. MANY AP teachers and students were upset because they did not manage to cover this material in class. We here at PHS did not have that concern, even with the snow days and the tornado.

Now, I am not just tossing you out there to learn this material on your own. First of all, I have a classroom blog, and it will have posts over the summer to help you understand these chapters. You need to check this blog every day during the school year—it’s like a moodle, but better. The blog’s address is:



Bookmark it. Visit it often. You can use the comments section to study together or ask questions. It has categories for each chapter as well as for subtopics and links to review websites. It is designed to help your comprehension and expand my ability to help you on your way to a solid classroom experience and a 5 on the AP exam.

So this extra credit assignment is due on the third day of school next fall. It needs to be handwritten neatly and legibly, and make sure you do your own work. You are welcome to work together on this assignment, but you cannot copy from your friends. This assignment will not help you if you yourself do not do it.

So please come to get a book from me before you leave for the summer, and don’t lose this assignment!!!! There will also be a copy of this assignment on the blog if you manage to at least remember where it is, so I suggest you go home tonight and bookmark my blog, just in case.

I look forward to seeing you next year!

Leslie Scoopmire, AP US history teacher

Define the terms, explain the significance of the terms, and answer the questions FULLY. This is extra credit, but is necessary.

THIS MUST BE HAND- WRITTEN.

NUMBER EACH TERM IN EACH CHAPTER.

Chapter Study Guides—Semester 1—Scoopmire

Chapter 1 New World Beginnings, 33,000 BC- AD 1769

Identify the historical significance of the following:

Mississippian culture Anasazi Cahokia

Iroquois L’Anse aux Meadows Vinland

Ferdinand/Isabella Christopher Columbus “sugar revolution”

Taino Treaty of Tordesillas Tenochtitlan

encomienda Giovanni Caboto St. Augustine (FL)

Juan de Onate Battle of Acoma Pope’s Rebellion

conquistadores mestizos “three sister” agriculture

Juan Ponce de Leon Moctezuma Junipero Serra

Ferdinand Magellan Hernan Cortes mission Indians

Francisco Coronado tidewater region Franciscans

Hernando de Soto Malinche “Black Legend”

Vasco Nunez de Balboa Quetzalcoatl Hispaniola

Bartolome de Las Casas maize Robert La Salle

Mound Builders Battle of Acoma Alamo

Pueblo culture Mound Builders Norse

crusaders

Be able to explain the following fully:

-- What kind of environmental impact did Native Americans have? Why do you think this impact was significantly different from that of the Europeans?

-- What was the impetus for European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries?

-- Describe the impact of interaction between Europe and the Americas, including the global effects of the Columbian exchange of plants, and of the introduction of European illnesses into the Americas.

-- Describe the system of encomienda. What was the ethical rationale for this system? What were the practical effects of this system?

Chapter 2 The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

Identify the historical significance of the following:

Sir Walter Raleigh Roanoke Island Virginia

“surplus population” charter Powhatan

“starving time” “Irish tactics” 1st Anglo-Powhatan War

2nd Anglo-Powhatan War “three Ds” Powhatan’s Confederacy

Piedmont Algonquians “seminary of sedition”

Barbados Slave Code Restoration period Deganawidah

Tuscaroras Iroquois Confederacy “soil butchery”

John Smith John Rolfe indentured servant

Lord Baltimore Charles II Hiawatha

Lords Proprietors Savannah Indians Lord de la Warr

Tuscaroras Yamasees James Oglethorpe

Handsome Lake John Wesley House of Burgesses

primogeniture joint-stock company Act of Toleration

Virginia Company Iroquois Confederacy proprietorship

Be able to explain the following fully:

--Trace the establishment of the five southeastern English colonies of Virginia, Maryland, Carolinas, and Georgia, outlining their similarities and differences.

-- How did the Indians respond to English settlement? What factors prevented them from resisting effectively? What attempts were made by the Indians to overcome this?

-- How did English land laws influence the English settlement of North America?

-- Outline the beginning of the plantation system and its importation to America. How did colonists deal with the need for labor before slavery became widespread?

-- Go to on the internet. What is the Fall Line? How did it influence Native American and English settlement?

Chapter 3 Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

Identify the historical significance of the following:

Anne Hutchinson William Penn Sir Edmund Andros

Roger Williams John Winthrop “the elect”

William Bradford John Cotton predestination

covenant Separatists Bible Commonwealth

Mayflower Compact Puritans Dominion of New England

Navigation Laws freemen antinomianism

Pilgrims New England Confederation

Fundamental Orders Quakers King Philip’s War

“salutary neglect” Middle Colonies “bread colonies”

Eurocentrism the Chesapeake “Blue Laws”

“Protestant work ethic” Metacom “royal colony”

Be able to explain the following fully:

-- Describe the three separate regions of English colonies. How did each region differ from the others, and why?

-- Describe the Puritan/Separatist drive to establish colonies. How did religious beliefs inform their actions?

--Respond to the following: “Early America was a haven for religious dissidents.”

--Explain the relationship between the mother country and the English colonies, including an explanation of the era of “neglect” and its aftermath. Contrast the New England Confederation with the Dominion of New England.

-- Describe the interaction between the English and the Native Americans. How were the Puritans and Quakers different in their relations with natives? Compare English actions with those of the Spanish.

Chapter 4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Identify the historical significance of the following:

William Berkeley Nathaniel Bacon headright system

middle passage Bacon’s Rebellion “freedom dues”

Royal African Company Gullah midwifery

Salem Witch Trials Halfway Covenant gentry

the Chesapeake “white slaves” “freedom dues”

House of Burgesses “Yankee ingenuity”

Be able to explain the following fully:

-- Describe the abuses of the indentured servant system. How did the conditions freedmen faced become potentially explosive? How did the headright system exacerbate the frustrations of the freedmen? Why do you think “No slave uprising in American history matched the scale of Bacon’s Rebellion?”

-- List the pros and cons of being a woman in the Chesapeake during the 17th century. Why would so few women live to be forty years old? What were the challenges faced by early American families? Explain the statement that “New England invented grandparents.”

-- List the factors that made importing African slaves more appealing after 1680. Why did so many slaves have to be imported during the years before 1720? What caused the decline of importation? Describe how cultural interaction influenced both the colonists and the slaves.

-- Why did the Puritans face a crisis of faith in the mid-17th century? How did they attempt to deal with this? Evaluate the efficacy of this transition.

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