APUSH
Mr. Silva
Summer Reading Review
Your notes from your summer reading of Chapters 1-3 should minimally reflect
the following topics and people. Amend your notes accordingly after reviewing
this list.
Chapter 1
* Brief summary of Europe's first encounters with the New World and the
imbalance of effects for each side (bad for natives/good for Europe)
* How each major European power ended up in America
* Obvious advantage for England among the Eur. powers
* Differences between Virginia and New England settlements: purpose for
settlement, type of people, role of religion, etc.
* Compare and contrast New England settlements (not too detailed)
* How Middle colonies were founded
* effects of European events on early American history (Spain vs. England,
purifying Church of England, England vs. France, etc.)
* how relationship developed btwn. Indians and Colonists
Ch. 1 People to focus on (rough list):
* Columbus
* John Smith
* Tisquantum
*William Bradford
* John Winthrop
* Roger Williams
* Anne Hutchinson
* William Penn
* George Calvert
Chapter 2
* Compare and contrast life among the southern colonies
* Compare and contrast life in south with that of life in north
* Compare and contrast life among the northern colonies (particularly
between middle colonies and New England)
* Introduction of slavery into the American colonies
* role of tobacco, particularly in the south
* significance of Bacon’s Rebellion
* significance of mercantilism
Chapter 3
• Basic structure of colonial governments
• Purpose and significance of the Navigation Acts
• Facts and significance of the Great Awakening
• Impact of the Enlightenment in America
• Impact of European wars on American colonies, with particular
focus on French and Indian War.
• British consolidation of control over North America
• Details and significance of Sugar, Stamp, Declaratory Acts and
Townshend Duties
• Boston Massacre and Tea Act Crisis
• People to focus on in Ch. 3:
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Theodore Frelinghuysen
William Tennent
John Wesley
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
Pontiac
George Grenville
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams