AP U.S. History
Summer Assignment
Overview:
1) People/terms/events to identify
2) Questions to answer
Important point: Terms MUST be handwritten, not typed. Question long answers are to be typed.
Due: First day of class
Recommended: Purchase of AMSCO 2015. This is a review book that students will be able to use all
year, and it provides valuable supplemental material to help students prepare for each class unit as well
as the AP Exam in May. The cost is $18.95 plus $7 shipping (you can combine your orders with others to
save on shipping), and it can be purchased through: http://www.perfectionlearning.com/us-historypreparing-for-ap-exam The 2015 edition is totally different than past editions and not available used or
through Amazon.
If you decide not to order a personal copy of AMSCO, you may use any reliable websites, history texts or
encyclopedias to do this work.
Questions: Please email Mrs. Moeller: moellern@fultonschools.org
Assigment 1—Terms to define. Must be handwritten. REPEAT: MUST BE HANDWRITTEN!!!!
Unit 1-Exchange and Interaction
Theme
corn
horses
disease
Labor Systems Theme
encomienda system
asiento system
slavery
Incas
Aztecs
conquistadors
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
New Laws of 1542
Roanoke Island
Migration Theme
land bridge
Adena-Hopewell
Hokokam, Anasazi and
Pueblos
Woodland mound builders
Lakota Sioux
Atlantic Trade
compass
printing press
Ferdinand and Isabella
Protestant Reformation
Henry the Navigator
Christopher Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas
slave trade
nation-state
Identity Theme
Mayas
American Indians
Algonquian
Siouan
Iroquois Confederation
longhouses
Search for Resources
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Henry Hudson
Values and Attitudes
Bartolome de Las Casas
Valladolid Debate
Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Unit Two—
Religion (CUL)
Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore
Act of Toleration
Roger Williams
Providence
Anne Hutchinson
antinomianism
Rhode Island
Halfway Covenant
Quakers
William Penn
Holy Experiment
Charter of Liberties (1701)
Crops (ENV)
rice plantations
tobacco farms
Early Settlements (PEO)
John Cabot
Jamestown
Captain John Smith
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Jamestown
Puritans
Separatists
Pilgrims
Mayflower
Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
Great Migration
Virginia
Thomas Hooker
John Davenport
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Later Settlements (PEOP)
The Carolinas
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Georgia
James Oglethorpe
Conflict (PEO)
Wampanoags
Metacom
King Philip’s War
Self-Rule (POL)
Mayflower Compact
Virginia House of Burgesses
Sir William Berkeley
Bacon’s Rebellion
Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut (1639)
New England Confederation
Frame of Government (1682)
Authority (WOR)
corporate colonies
royal colonies
proprietary colonies
Chesapeake colonies
joint-stock company
Virginia Company
Royal Authority (WOR)
mercantilism
Navigation Acts
Dominion of New England
Sir Edmund Andros
Glorious Revolution
Labor (WXT)
indentured servants
headright system
slavery
triangular trade
Middle Passage
Assignment #2: Must be typed and prepared to submit to Turnitin.com. Instructions for submission will
be given during the first class. Make sure your answer covers the entire question and includes specific
facts as support. Each question’s answer should be about three body paragraphs and include 10-12
specific facts. This is a good example of the quality of work expected in this class.
Period 1 (1497-1607) Questions
1) How did Spain’s early entry into colonization in the Caribbean, Mexico and South America shape
European and American developments in this period?
2) How did pre-contact populations of North America relate to their environments and how did
contact with Europeans and Africans change these relations in North America?
Period 2 (1607-1754) Questions
1) What were the chief similarities and differences among the development of English, Spanish,
Dutch, and French colonies in America?
2) How did distinct economic systems, most notably a slavery system based on African labor,
develop in British North America and what was their effect on emerging cultural and regional
differences?
3) In what ways did the British government seek to exert control over its American colonies in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?