APUSH Textbook Reading
Chapters 1 – 4
Directions: Following the SQ3R method for studying, test preparation and outlining, read each assigned
chapter and complete the following assignment for each chapter.
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3.
4.
Turn each heading into a question.
Read to answer each question. In your own words outline each section.
After each section write a sentence explaining what the section was about.
At the end of each chapter write a summary/abstract that encompasses the chapter.
Reading Assignment:
1. Using the SQ3R Method Read, outline, summarize, and write a summary/abstract for Chapters
1 – 4 from the American Pageant.
a. Chapter 1: New Beginnings. Pages 4 – 24.
b. Chapter 2: The Planting of English America. Pages 25 – 42.
c. Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies. Pages 43 – 65.
d. Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century. Pages 66 – 83.
APUSH Important People, Concepts and Vocabulary
Note Card Directions:
1. For each assigned concept or vocabulary term create a flashcard using index cards.
2. Create a note card for every concept and vocabulary term but ONLY important people with an
asterisk (*). Those important people without an asterisk will be added to concept and vocabulary
cards.
a. Concept Cards: On one side of an index card write the concept, when and where it
happened, and what it means. Flip the card over and write who was involved and why it is
important to the time period on the back.
b. Vocabulary Cards: On one side of an index card write the term and define what it means.
Flip the card over write who was involved with the event and why the term is important to
the time period. Also include which concept the term supports and why it supports it.
c. Important People: Write the person’s name on one side of the card. On the back side of the
card define the person’s relationship to the time period. Include dates, places, and events the
person influenced or was involved in.
Chapter One Id’s: New World Beginnings. Pages 4 - 24.
Important People:
*Marco Polo
*Christopher Columbus
John Cabot
Hernando Cortez
Montezuma
Giovanni de Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
Don Juan de Onate
Isabella Ferdinand
*Robert de LaSalle
Vasco Balba
Ferdinand Magellan
*Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
*Francisco Coronado
Leif Erikson
Ponce de Leon
Hiawatha
Concepts:
Slave Trade
Encomienda system
Treaty of Tordesillas
Land Bridge
Three sister farming
Columbian Exchange
Iroquois Confederation
Vocabulary:
Incas
Mayas
Aztecs
Maize
Pueblo Indians
Mound Builders
Cherokee
Choctaw
Iroquois
Spice Islands
Diseases: Small pox, Yellow
Fever, Malaria
Conquistadores
Black Legend
Spanish Armada
Chapter Two Id’s: The Planting of English America. Pages 25 – 42.
Important People:
Francis Drake
Elizabeth I
*Sir Walter Raleigh
*John Smith
*Pocahontas
*Chief Powhatan
Lord De La Warr
James Oglethorpe
John Wesley
*John Rolfe
Lord Baltimore
Handsome Lake
Concepts:
Causes of English Immigration
Protestant Reformation
Joint – Stock Company
Cause and Effect of the First
Anglo-Powhatan War
Cause and Effect of the Second
Anglo-Powhatan War
Act of Toleration
House of Burgesses
Vocabulary:
Roanoke Island Colony
Jamestown
Virginia
Jamestown Seedling
Virginia Company
Tobacco
Catholic Haven
West Indies
Settling of Carolina and slave
codes
Squatters
North and South
Carolina Division
Georgia
Plantation Colonies
What happened to the Iroquois
League or Iroquois
Confederation?
Longhouse religion
Role of African Americans in
Virginia
Chapter Three Id’s: Settling the Northern Colonies. Pages 43 – 65.
Important People:
*Martin Luther
*John Calvin
Myles Standish
*William Bradford
*John Winthrop
John Cotton
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Rev. Thomas Hooker
Sir Edmund Andros
*Henry Hudson
Peter Stuyvesant
Duke of York
*William Penn
*Benjamin Franklin
Concepts:
New England Confederation
Dominion of New England
Navigation Acts
Establishment of New
Netherland
New Sweden
Antinomianism
Puritanism
Calvinism
Mayflower Compact
Cause and Effect of Pequot War
Cause and Effect of King
Philip’s War
Fundamental Orders
Vocabulary:
Conversions
Protestant Work Ethic
Three different groups
of Puritans
Pilgrims
Congregational Church
Rhode Island “sewer”
Fundamental Orders
Dutch East India Co.
Quakers characteristics
Middle Colonies
Visible saints
Bible commonwealth
Predestination
Chapter Four: American Life in the Seventeenth Century. Pages 66 – 83.
Important People:
*Nathaniel Bacon
Concepts:
Tobacco Economy
Salem Witch Trials
Stono River Revolt
Bacon’s Rebellion
Colonial Slavery
Vocabulary:
Headright System
Slave codes
First families of Virginia
Jeremiads
Half-way covenant