APUS HISTORY
SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS
2015-2016
The APUS History National Exam is given on Friday, May 6, 2016. This is several weeks before the end
of school. APUS History is a content heavy course and with the early date of the National Exam we need to get
a head start on the material to be covered. The summer assignments are designed to put us in position to
perform well on this exam. Benedictine scores have been strong over the years and we hope to continue this
trend.
ASSIGNMENTS
1. Chapters 1-5 in The American Pageant 13th edition. Do the following:
A. read all five chapters
B. take extensive notes (in outline form) on these readings (I have included sample student notes).
C. complete the terms below (by highlighting them in the notes you take). For those terms that are
not included in your notes, define them at the end of the chapter’s notes in a separate
section.
D. Related points
1) You will be able to use your notes for the test you take on chapters 1-5 during the
first week of school. Take extensive, quality notes.
2) All notes must be taken in FIVE STAR NOTEBOOK. THEY MUST ALSO BE
HANDWRITTEN (not typed).
3) you will receive a grade for these notes and terms – this will be worth 40 points and
will obviously help your overall grade if you do not do well on the first test.
4) YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE ANY SOURCES OTHER THAN YOUR
TEXTBOOK FOR NOTES (except for clarification of terms).
**If you have any questions please e-mail me (Mr. Harvey) at mharvey@benedictinecollegeprep.org .
IDENTIFICATION
CHAPTER 1
Pueblo culture
Cahokia
Iroquois Confederacy
Bartholomeu Dias
Christopher Columbus
“sugar revolution”
conquistadores
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernando de Soto
Encomienda
Tenochtitlan
John Cabot
St. Augustine, Florida
Father Juniper Serra
CHAPTER 2
Henry VIII
Sir Walter Raleigh
Philip II of Spain
“enclosure” movement
Jamestown
Mound builders
Anasazis
Vinland
“Dark Continent”
“Indies”
Columbian Exchange
Vasco Nunez Balboa
“fountain of youth”
Francisco Pizarro
Hernan Cortes
Moctezuma (Montezuma)
Giovanni da Verrazano
Popé’s Rebellion
“mission Indians”
Mississippian culture
Chaco Canyon
Marco Polo
Vasco da Gama
Hispaniola
Treaty of Tordesillas
Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Coronado
Incas
Aztecs
mestizos
Jacques Cartier
Robert de La Salle
“Black Legend”
English “sea dogs”
Roanoke Island
Spanish Armada
joint-stock company
John Smith
Francis Drake
“Virgin Queen”
Elizabeth I
Virginia Company
Pocahontas
“starving time”
First Anglo-Powhatan War
Second Anglo-Powhatan War
House of Burgesses
Act of Toleration (1649)
Oliver Cromwell
Lord Proprietors (Carolinas)
“graveyard of the Atlantic”
“charity colony”
“soil butchery”
Lord De La Warr
Powhatan’s Confederacy
“Irish tactics”
John Rolfe
tobacco (cash crop)
King Nicotine
Lord Baltimore
St. Marys (Maryland)
Barbados slave code
King Charles I
Restoration colonies
King Charles II
Willam Penn
Charles Town
North Carolina and South Carolina James Oglethorpe
Savannah, Georgia
John Wesley
CHAPTER 3
Martin Luther
Calvinism
“visible saints”
Separatists
Plymouth Rock
Massachusetts Bay Colony
“a city upon a hill”
“the Blue Law State”
Roger Williams
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Squanto
King Philip’s War (1675-76)
Navigation Laws
William and Mary
Henry Hudson
Patroonships
Duke of York
“Penn’s Woodland”
City of Brotherly Love
Protestant Reformation
John Calvin
predestination
conversion
Puritans
King James I
Mayflower
Pilgrims
Mayflower Compact
William Bradford
Great Migration
John Winthrop
Bible Commonwealth
John Cotton
“Day of Doom” (1662)
Anne Hutchinson
Rhode Island
Thomas Hooker
Hartford
New Haven
Mystic Massacre (1637)
Metacom (King Philip)
New England Confederation (1643) Dominion of New England
Sir Edmund Andros
Glorious Revolution (1688-89)
“salutary neglect”
Anglo-Dutch wars
New Netherland
New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
New Sweden
Quakers
William Penn
Chief Tammany
middle colonies
CHAPTER 4
indentured servants
Nathaniel Bacon
slave codes
FFVs
Harvard College
Half-Way Covenant
“New England conscience”
headright system
Bacon’s Rebellion
Gullah
The Scarlet Letter
William and Mary College
Salem Witch Trials
William Berkeley
middle passage
Stono Rebellion
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“jeremiad”
“Yankee ingenuity”
Scots-Irish
Regulator Movement
Anglican Church
Jonathan Edwards
Charles Wilson Peale
Poor Richard’s Almanack
“great wagon road”
triangular trade
Congregational Church
George Whitefield
Phillis Wheatley
John Peter Zenger (freedom of press)
CHAPTER 5
Pennsylvania Dutch
Paxton Boys
Molasses Act of 1733
the Great Awakening
“old lights” and “New lights”
Benjamin Franklin