APUSH Summer Assignment
Hello Historians!
Welcome to APUSH!! In order to hit the ground running, please enjoy the
following.
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Please read and have the definitions of these terms ready. For each
definition, try to find its place in history. Why is it meaningful? How
does it connect to the theme of the chapter? What does the term
(person, place, event etc.) contribute to the time period?
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You will notice that not all of the terms listed will require a definition,
but rather an explanation. Try your best to figure out the impact and
significance of each term.
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Develop a format for notes that works best for you (2
column/bullets/roman numerals etc.) Use short hand…it does not need
to necessarily be in paragraph form.
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Please have these ready for the first day, as they will prove to be an
extremely valuable resource in the future. We will take an exam on
the first day.
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Contact me with any questions/issues concerning the notes over the
summer! Please do not hesitate if you are unsure
dcannon@narragansett.k12.ri.us
Can’t wait to meet the new team!
Enjoy summer and be safe,
Mr. Cannon
Chapter 1
New World Beginnings
33,000 B.C.- A.D 1769 (B.C.E-C.E)
The Shaping of North America
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Take a look at the massive time
scale in this section 225million2million years ago
Peopling the Americas
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What happened from 35,00010,000 years ago?
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Bering Sea
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Climate change and agriculture
The earliest Americans
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Corn and other crops
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Three sister farming
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How were most Native
Americans living by the Eve of
Europeans arrival?
Indirect Discoverers of the New
World
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Newfoundland
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Muslim middlemen and the
luxuries of the Far East…what
were European explorers really
looking for?
Europeans enter Africa
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Explain the Portuguese and the
“Dark Continent”
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Dias and De Gama
Columbus Comes Upon a New World
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Columbus
When Worlds Collide
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Describe the Columbian
Exchange
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“Sugar Revolution”
The Spanish Conquistadores
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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God, Gold, Glory
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Encomienda
The Conquest of Mexico
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Describe how Cortez
“Conquered” Mexico
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Mestizo
The Spanish Conquistadors: Makers of
America
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Main Idea
The Spread of Spanish America
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Describe Spanish Colonial Rule
(Schools, Cathedrals, mission)
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St. Augustine
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Pope’s Rebellion of 1680
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Differences between Spanish
and English empires in the New
world
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Check out Chart on Explorers
APUSH Ch.2
The Planting of English America
1500-1733
*Team…please take a very close look at this chapter. Knowing how the colonies were formed can
tell us a great deal about their role leading up to and through the Revolution and also with Sectional
differences associated with the Civil War etc.*
Note When Spanish, French and English planted outposts in N. America
England’s Imperial Stirrings
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King Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth 1588
Ireland and Spain (Both Catholic)
Sir Walter Raleigh
Elizabeth Energizes England
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Francis Drake
Roanoke Island…mystery
Spanish Armada 1588
Spain’s defeat ensures England’s Naval
dominance in North Atlantic…hmmm
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Irish Tactics
Pocahontas and John Rolfe sealed
peace of First Anglo-Powhatan War in
1614
1622…Rolfe dead
2nd War in 1644
3 D’s
The Indians New World
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Note how European Colonization
disrupted Native American Life…all
negative?
Virginia: Child of Tobacco
England on the Eve of Empire
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Population Boom
Mobile Population..why?
Primogeniture
Joint stock Companies
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England Plants the Jamestown Seedling
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Virginia Company and King James I
Charter of VA. Co.
Jamestown
Capt. John Smith…Importance
Pocahontas and Powhatan
Lord De La Warr
Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake
Importance of this crop
1619…first slaves
House of Burgesses…huge precedent
James I revokes charter and makes
Virginia a ________ colony under his
direct control in 1624
Maryland: Catholic Haven
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Lord Baltimore
Indentured Servants
Act of Toleration in 1649
The West Indies: Way station to Mainland
America
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Sugar vs. Tobacco
Slave codes
Barbados slave codes 1661...what was it
and what did it lead to?
Colonizing the Carolinas
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King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, King
Charles II
Indian Slaves
Rice
The Emergence of North Carolina
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Squatters
Similarities with Rhode Island
Note the emergence of North Carolina
Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
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Act as a buffer?
King George II
James Oglethorpe
Debtors Jail
The Plantation Colonies
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Note similarities and differences
“Soil Butchery”
The Iroquois
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Confederacy
5 Nations
APUSH Chapter3
Settling the Northern Colonies
1619-1700
List some differences between Mid-Atlantic and New England Settlement
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
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Calvin’s Doctrine?
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Who were the Puritans and how does King Henry VIII Connect to this?
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King James I threatens Separatists
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
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Mayflower
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Myles Standish
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Plymouth Bay outside of jurisdiction
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Mayflower Compact!
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First Winter
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The Beaver and the Bible
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William Bradford
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
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John Winthrop
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Non-Separatist Puritans
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What jobs helped Mass Bay prosper?
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City Upon a Hill
Building the Bay Colony
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Describe the Bible Commonwealth (Voting, Town Meetings)
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What does Winthrop mean when he calls democracy the “meanest and worst” form
of Gov’t?
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Congregations could hire and fire…and ministers could not hold political office
(Separation of Church and State)
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Protestant Ethic
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“Day of Doom”
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth
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Anne Hutchinson-Describe trial in 1638
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Roger Williams
The Rhode Island “Sewer”
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Freedom of Religion
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“Rogues” Island…made up of?
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Charter in 1644 (independent Man)
New England Spreads Out
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Hartford 1635- Thomas Hooker
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Fundamental Orders in 1639
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Merged with New Haven
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Maine Absorbed by Mass
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New Hampshire Absorbed by mass, and then granted a ___________ colony in
1679
Puritans vs. Indians
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Squanto and Massasoit
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Pequot War
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Metacom and Pan-Indian alliance
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King Philips War
The English (Makers of America)
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Summarize this section
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence
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New England Confederation
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Limited, but a seed nonetheless
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Describe the deepening Colonial defiance in Massachusetts
Andros Promotes the First American Revolution
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Dominion of New England Created…Why? (From Parliaments perspective)
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How did Colonists respond to Navigation Laws?
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What did Andros do while in Boston? (THIS IS HUGE!)
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How did Glorious Revolution dismantle Andros’ regime?
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SALUTARY NEGLECT! How did it begin???? INCREDIBLY HUGE!
Old Netherlands at New Netherland
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Dutch emerge as an international power
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Dutch East and West India Companies
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Employ Henry Hudson (New Netherland on Hudson River)
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Purchase Manhattan (New Amsterdam…aka New York)
Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors
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Origins of Wall Street
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Peter Stuyvesant
Dutch Residues in New York
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New York! Dutch were in English Shadow
Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania
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Quakers…Who were they?
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William Penn…”Saucy”
Quaker Pennsylvania and its Neighbors
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Describe the colony
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies
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Fertile Land
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Describe these Middle Colonies and how they were “coming to life”
Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe?
Discuss the arguments made and respond. What do you think?
APUSH 4
American Life in the 17th Century
1607-1692
Then Unhealthy Chesapeake
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Describe lifespan of settlers here
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Who came to the Chesapeake?
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Describe women and family life here
The Tobacco Economy
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Great for Tobacco
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More production meant more labor
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Headright system
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Describe the indentured servant
Frustrated Freeman and Bacon’s Rebellion
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1676 Nathaniel Bacon
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William Berkeley
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Bacon lit the fire with the majority of Virginia (landless and penniless class)
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Lordly Planters looked elsewhere for labor (less troublesome)…Where?
Colonial Slavery
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10-12 million transported (___________ to North America)
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What changed in the 1680’s concerning labor force?
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Middle Passage
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Chattels
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1662 “slave codes” begin to make conditions clear
Africans in America
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Describe Slave Labor in South vs. Middle colonies
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Stono Rebellion
Southern Society
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Planter class (FFV”S)
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Small Farmers (largest class)
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Landless whites
From African to African American
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Describe Slave Culture
The New England Family
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Disease like the Chesapeake?
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Describe the longevity and family stability in New England vs. the Chesapeake
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Which women had more rights? (New England or Chesapeake?)
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Midwives
Life in New England Towns
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Tight knit towns
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Education…Harvard
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Town Meeting (Thomas Jefferson)
The Half Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials
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Half-way covenant allows more members, but weakens the distinction of the “elect”
and others
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1692 Salem Witch Trials
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Notice difference in social status between the accused and the accusers
The New England Way of Life
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How did the land shape New Englanders
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Explain, commerce, ship building and fishing
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How did Calvinism add to this?
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“Yankee ingenuity”
The Early Settlers Days and Ways
Describe the conditions of women in colonial times, rich vs. poor, and frontiersmen