APUSH: UNIT 1 OVERVIEW
COLLISION AND COLONIZATION TO 1763
TEXT REFERENCES:
KCB: CHAPTERS 1-5
ESTABLISH A READING SCHEDULE RIGHT AWAY AND STICK TO IT!
KEY CONCEPTS
1. Before the arrival of Europeans, native populations in North America developed a
wide variety of social, political, and economic structures based in part on
interactions with the environment and each other.
2. European overseas expansion resulted in the Columbian Exchange, a series of
interactions and adaptations among societies across the Atlantic.
3. Conflicts among American Indians, Africans, and Europeans challenged the
worldviews of each group.
4. Differences in imperial goals, cultures, and the North American environments that
different empires confronted led Europeans to develop diverse patterns of
colonization.
5. European colonization efforts in North America stimulated intercultural contact and
intensified conflict between the various groups of colonizers and native people.
6. The increasing political, economic, and cultural exchanges within the “Atlantic
World” had a profound impact on the development of colonial societies in North
America.
7. Britain’s victory over France in the imperial struggle for North America led to new
conflicts among the British government, the North American colonists, and
American Indians, culminating in the creation of a new nation, the United States.
“History must be
imagined before it
can be understood!”
Think about it!
Can you identify
this image? What
does he represent
from the
American story?
UNIT 1 VOCABULARY: NEED TO KNOW
You will find a links for the vocabulary development for Chapters 1-5 on the APUSH
Research Page. You need to be familiar with the following terms as you read and study.
Toward the end of September you will be writing an in-class quiz related to these terms.
IN ADDITION, you need complete HTS Paragraphs FOR THOSE THAT ARE MARKED WITH
AN * (10 of them). The skills you will focus on for each will be identified in Canvas. We will
talk about how to do these during our first week of class and I will provide examples.
CHAPTER 1
Canadian Shield
Incas
Aztecs
nation-states
*Cahokia
three-sister farming
middlemen
caravel
plantation
*Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Tordesillas
Conquistadores
capitalism
encomienda
*noche triste
mestizo
Battle of Acoma
Pope’s Rebellion
Black Legend
Ferdinand of Aragon
Isabella of Castille
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Coronado
Francisco Pizarro
Bartolome de Las Casas
Hernan Cortes
Malinche (Dona Marina)
Moctezuma
Giovanni Caboto
(John Cabot)
Robert de La Salle
Father Junipero Serra
CHAPTER 2
Protestant Reformation
Roanoke Island
*Spanish Armada
primogeniture
joint-stock company
charter
Jamestown
First Anglo-Powhatan War
Second Anglo-Powhatan War
Act of Toleration
squatters
Barbados slave code
Tuscarora War
Yamasee Indians
buffer
*Iroquois Confederacy
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Walter Raleigh
James I
Captain John Smith
Powhatan
Pocahontas
Lord De La Warr
John Rolfe
Lord Baltimiore
Oliver Cromwell
James Oglethorpe
Hiawatha
HISTORY IS THE INTERPRETATION OF
PAST EVENTS WITH AN EYE ON THE
PRESENT AND A VISION OF THE
FUTURE!
CHAPTER 3
Calvinism
predestination
conversion
Puritans
Separatists
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Colony
*Great Migration
antinomianism
Fundamental Orders
Pequot War
*King Phillip’s War
English Civil War
Dominion of New England
*Glorious Revoution
*salutary neglect
patroonships
blue laws
Martin Luther
John Calvin
William Bradford
John Winthrop
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Massasoit
Metacom (King Phillip)
Charles II
Sir Edmund Andros
William III
Mary II
Henry Hudson
Peter Stuyvesant
Duke of York
William Penn
CHAPTER 4
Indentured servants
Headright system
*Bacon’s Rebellion
Royal African Company
Middle passage
New York slave revolt
South Carolina slave revolt
(Stono River)
Congregational Church
Jeremiad
Half-Way Covenant
Salem Witch Trials
Leisler’s Rebellion
William Berkeley
Nathanial Bacon
Anthony Johnson
CHAPTER 5
Paxton Boys
Regulator Movement
triangular trade
Molasses Act
Arminianism
*Great Awakening
old lights
new lights
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Zenger Trial
royal colonies
proprietary colonies
Michel-Guillaume Jean de
Crevecoeur
Jacobus Arminius
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
John Trumbull
John Singleton Copley
Phillis Wheatley
John Peter Zenger