AP U.S. History
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Unit 1: Colonization (Prehistory-1756)
Essential Questions
1. How did Europeans, enslaved Africans, and Native Americans interact with each other and their
environment?
2. What was the motivation behind emigration to the New World? To what degree were personal liberty
and economic opportunity driving forces in this process?
3. In what ways did Great Britain shape the economic and political development of the colonies, especially
in the 18th century?
4. What were the social, political, and economic characteristics of the New England, Middle, and Southern
colonies? What role did geography play in shaping these characteristics?
5. How did the development of Virginia and Massachusetts specifically impact America?
6. What was the relationship between society, politics, and economics within each region?
7. How did the colonial experience differ based on region, race, ethnicity, class, and gender?
8. How did the enlightenment and the Great Awakening shape American intellectual thought during the
colonial period?
9. To what degree did the Puritans shape the social, political, and economic development of the United
States? What legacies of Puritanism exist today?
10. To what degree did the colonists succeed in establishing “a city upon a hill?” Did they succeed in the
pursuit of their American dream?
Date
Wednesday, 8-17
Topic
Welcome to AP U.S. History!
Expectations, Syllabus, Textbooks
Theme: QET-P, Subjective Nature of History
Study Tools
Homework
Txt 16-26: No Notes
Start and stop at “logical” breaks
Read and Annotate Docs for European Contact
DBQ
Thursday, 8-18
Questions from yesterday?
Topic: Native Americans and European Contact
Friday, 8-19
Collect & Discuss Writing Assignment #1-A
Topic: Building a Temple…
Topic: Push-Pull- Emigration to Virginia and the
Chesapeake Colonies
DBQ Due Tomorrow!
Txt 33-43 (read and take notes)
Document: Sermons on Going to the Virginia
Plantations
Writing Assignment #1-A (revisited)
Txt 72-81, 84-85 (read and take notes)
Document: Olaudah Equiano, Account of
Middle Passage
Monday, 8-22
Topic: Virginia and the Chesapeake Colonies in
the 1600’s
Tuesday, 8-23
Statistical Analysis: Virginia and the Chesapeake
Colonies in the 1600’s
Wednesday, 8-24
Topic: Massachusetts and Puritan New England,
1600’s (“A City on a Hill”)
5 Circles, revisited
Thursday, 8-25
Statistical Analysis of MassBay
Friday, 8-26
In-Class DBQ: Regional Comparison
Txt 52-57, 97-105 (read and take notes)
Finish In-Class Writing Assignment
Monday, 8-29
Topic: Pennsylvania, Middle Colonies,
Backcountry, and Borderlands
Assign: Writing Assignment #1-B
Tuesday, 8-30
Topic: 18th Century Society
Focus: Demographics, Family Life, Women
Txt 107-111 (read and take notes)
Document: Ben Franklin: Advice to a Young
Tradesman
Work on Colonial Graphic Organizer
Study for Unit 1 Exam!
Txt 111-114 (read and take notes)
Handout: The Way of Duty
Study for Unit 1 Exam!
Wednesday, 8-31
Topic: Enlightenment and the First Great
Awakening
Study for Unit 1 Exam!
Thursday, 9-1
Wrap Up, Odds and Ends, Q & A, Review
Study for Unit 1 Exam!
Friday, 9-2
Exam
None
Work on Colonial Graphic Organizer
Handout: Statistical Analysis of Virginia and
the Chesapeake Colonies in the 1600’s
Handout: TBD
Txt 43-50 (read and take notes)
Handout: John Winthrop’s Reasons for
Undertaking a Plantation
Handout: A Model of Christian Charity
Handout: Statistical Analysis of Chesapeake
Txt 50-52 (read and take notes)
Handout: Anne Hutchison
Handout: John Winthrop: “Of Civil Liberty”
Handout: Statistical Analysis of MassBay
Txt 65-72, 85-88 (read and take notes)
Handout:
Work on Colonial Graphic Organizer
AP U.S. History
Unit 1 Study Guide by Chapter
Chapter 2 (33-43)
factors leading to emigration
Jamestown
John Rolfe-tobacco
royal colony
Lord Baltimore
population issues
religious issues
The London (Virginia) Co.
John Smith
Sir Edwin Sandys
headright
House of Burgesses
Maryland
1649 Act of Religion (a.k.a. Toleration Act)
Chapter 2 (43-52)
Pilgrims
Puritans: Mass.Bay colony
“A city on a hill”
Roger Williams-Rhode Island
Connecticut
William Bradford
Mayflower Compact
John Winthrop
Church of England (Anglicans)
the “saints” (a.k.a. visible saints and “the elect”)
Anne Hutchinson
antinomianism
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Chapter 2 (52-57)
Quakers
settlers of Pennsylvania
“Inner Light”
“Holy Experiment”
William Penn
Chapter 3 (65-72)
nuclear families
Half-way Covenant
social groups in Massachusetts
family life
women: role and status
congregational church
Anne Bradstreet
Chapter 3 (72-81)
life expectancy/mortality rates
gentry
slavery in the West Indies
outland vs. creole blacks
slave culture
women: role and status
social groups in Virginia
freemen
indentured servants
changes in legal status of slaves
Olaudah Equiano
Royal African Company
Chapter 3 (84-85)
Nathanial Bacon
Bacon’s Rebellion
Chapter 3 (85-88)
pressures against puritans
Glorious Revolution of 1689
King Philip’s War
Salem witch trials
Sir Edmund Andros
population expansion
Scotch-Irish
convicts
Lutherans (Pennsylvania Dutch)
Chapter 4 (97-105)
William Byrd
backcountry
Indians - “middle ground”
Chapter 4 (107-111)
colonial cities: entrepots
consumer goods/trade
Ben Franklin
economic growth - note products
manners, gentility, middle class
Chapter 4 (111-114)
the (First) Great Awakening
Jonathon Edwards
New and Old Lights
James Davenport
positive and negative impact of the Great Awakening
George Whitefield