AP US History
Unit Calendar
Robertson
THE COLONIAL PERIOD
Assignments are to be completed by the time your class period meets on the following
dates:
Due Thurs. 8/18: Aztecs v. Greeks article and textbook pages 3, 12 - 21 (you should take
notes beginning on page 17, Spanish in America. Stop reading at Biological…Exchanges
Due Fri. 8/19: pages 21-23 (stop at Africa and America), and review for Ideas that Shape
Nation Quiz; both summer reading papers due
Due Mon, 8/22: page 26 (The Arrival of the English) to page 44 (Growth of New England)
Due Tues. 8/23: pages 44 – 51 (stop at Restoration Colonies)
Due Wed. 8/24: Native Intelligence article by Charles Mann
Due Thurs. 8/25: pages 51-56, 59-62
Due Fri. 8/26: pages 63-66, 69-72, and 5 Vocabulary terms
Due Mon. 8/29: pages 72-87
Due Tues. 8/30: pages 88-94
Due Wed. 8/31: pages 95-102
Due Fri. 9/2: History Brief
You are encouraged to consult the textbook online learning center for main themes and
learning objectives at: (see my website for hyperlink)
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073385492/student_view0/index.html
Reminder: Take textbook handwritten reading notes on loose-leaf paper. Typed notes or
notes on the term sheet may not be used on open-note quizzes.
The multiple choice portion of the test will be on Tuesday, September 6th. The essay portion
of the test will be on Thursday, September 8th.
AP US History
Robertson
Important Terms/Concepts: The Colonial Period
Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
Conquistadors
motives of Spanish settlers
Missions
St. Augustine
Don Juan de Onate
encomiendas
relations with Native Americans
Pueblo Revolt / Pope
Spanish empire: extent, governance, population
Smallpox
agricultural exchange
racial hierarchy in Spanish America
enclosure movement
mercantilism
Calvinism
English Reformation
Puritans
Separatists
James I
English treatment of Ireland
plantation model
French colonization
fur trade
Dutch colonization
defeat of Spanish Armada
Roanoke
Walter Raleigh
Chapter 2: Transplantation & Borderland
Jamestown
John Smith
Virginia Company
tobacco
headright system
arrival of Africans
Pocahontas
Powhatan Indians
Calvert/Lord Baltimore
Maryland Act Concerning Religion
religious conflict
William Berkeley
Bacon’s Rebellion
Plymouth
saints and strangers
Mayflower Compact
William Bradford
Pilgrims relations with Indians
Charles I
Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
Congregational Church
theocracy
Thomas Hooker
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
New England white/native relations
“praying Indians”
Pequot War
King Phillip’s War
Carolina colonies
New York
New Jersey
Quakers
William Penn
Pennsylvania
New Mexico
California
the Spanish in Florida
Georgia / James Oglethorpe
white/native relations in middle ground
Navigation Acts
Glorious Revolution and impact in colonies
Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
colonial demographics
indenture system
birth and death rates
sex ratio in Chesapeake and New England
midwives
medicine in the colonies
family life in Chesapeake and New England
middle passage
slave trade
slave codes
Huguenots
Pennsylvania Dutch
Scottish/Irish immigration
basis of southern economy
basis of northern economy
colonial commerce
triangular trade
plantation economy and society
slave society and culture
Stono Rebellion
New England town life and government
primogeniture
Salem Witch Trials
development of cities
colonial religious patterns
Great Awakening
George Whitfield
Jonathan Edwards
colonial education
Harvard College
College of William and Mary
smallpox inoculation
John Peter Zenger
importance of colonial assemblies