AP US History
Review Topics
Unit I
Vocabulary and
Unit 1 (Review from last year)
Out of Many
Chapters 1 – 5
Voices of the American Past Chapter 1 – 2 (it is my understanding that you have
read some of these)
Out of Many
Chapter 1
Questions
A Continent of Villages
1.
How did the North American climate change? What distinct regions were formed and how did this
affect cultures?
2.
How did the geography of North America affect primitive cultures of particular regions?
3.
What is forest efficiency?
4.
Why did the development of farming allow societies to become more complex?
5.
How might both farming and climate have affected warfare and violence among Indian peoples?
Pleistocene
Beringia
Clovis
Folsom
Plano
Athapscans-Inupiat-Aleuts
Maize
Archaic Period
Hunting Tradition
Visionquest
Shaman
Pantheism
Hohokam
Four Corners
Pueblo
Agrarian Tradition
Matrilineal
Patrilineal
Mound Builder
Cahokia
Mississippian
Rancherias
Hopi
Navaho
Apache
Maya
Aztec
Inca
Cherokee
Tribal confederacies
Iroquois
Algonquians
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Chapter 2
Unit I
Vocabulary
When Worlds Collide
1.
What was the Reformation and what was its political effect?
2.
How did European monarchs derive their power from social chaos?
3.
How did enclosure lead to urbanization?
4.
How was English expansion tied to social change at home?
5.
How did the animosity between England and Spain affect the New World?
6.
What were the social, economic, and political effects of the Crusades?
7.
Discuss the importance of maize in both the New World and Old?
Roanoke
Croatoan
Walter Raleigh
Thomas Harriot
Manteo
Virginia Dare
L’Anse aux Meadows
Feudalism
Black Death
Crusades
Renaissance
English Peasants Rebellion
Prince Henry
Caravel
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Isabelle and Ferdinand
Reconquista
Vasco de Balboa
Amerigo Vespucci
Barlotome de las Casas
Encomienda
Tenochtitan
Hernan Cortes
Ponce de Leon
Hernan de Soto
Francisco Coronado
Treaty of Tordesillas
mestizos
mulatto
Council of the Indies
Reformation
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Henry VIII
Huguenots
Jacques Cartier
Elizabeth I
Francis Drake
Sea dogs
Martin Frobisher
Philip II
Spanish Armada
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Chapter 3
Unit I
Vocabulary
Planting Colonies in North America
1.
Compare the English colonies to each other in terms of location, reasons for establishment,
economy, government structure, and ideology.
2.
Explain the various conflicts between European countries represented in North America, between
Native Americans and Europeans, between English colonies and the government at home.
3.
Explain how various English conflicts over religion from Henry VIII to William and Mary partly
affected the settlement of North America.
4.
Describe the role of education in New England.
5.
Compare and contrast the French, Spanish, and English experiences in the New World.
6.
Compare the Puritans and the Quakers
Santa Fe
Ethnographer
Vasquez de Coronado
Juan de Onate
Samuel de Champlaine
Port Royal
Quebec
Acadia
habitants
seignurs
courerus de bois
Sieur de la Salle
Montreal
John Smith
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Tobacco
House of Burgesses
Charles I
Maryland
Royal Colony
Proprietary Colony
Calvert Family
House of Delegates
Indentured servants
Matriarchy
William Bradford
John Winthrop
‘a city upon a hill’
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Great Migration
General Court
Miles Standish
Pequot War
Wampanoags
Oliver Cromwell
‘grammar’ schools
Harvard College
Salem Witch Trials
Jesuits
Franciscans
Puritans
Pilgrims
Thomas Hooker
Fundamental Orders
James I
Joint-stock companies
Virginia Company
Jamestown
Powhatan
Algonquian
Henry Hudson
Mayflower Compact
Massasoit
Narragansets
Sachem
Squanto
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Acts of Trade and Navigation
Charles II
Restoration Colonies
Edict of Nantes
New Netherlands
Beaver Wars
New Amsterdam
New York
William Penn
Society of Friends
Quakers
Philadelphia
Chief Tammany
King Philip’s War
Metacomet
Bacon’s Rebellion
Culpepper’s
Rebellion
Mustees
Dominion of New
England
Edmund Andros
Navigation Acts
Glorious Revolution
William and Mary
King William’s War
English Board of
Trade
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Unit I
Vocabulary
Out of Many
Chapter 4 Slavery and Empire
1. Describe the African Slave Trade. What nations are involved in the trade?
2. Discuss the economic foundations and importance of slavery.
3. What was the main goal of a mercantile economy?
4. What legal distinctions did Africans face in Virginia?
5. What created the differences between the North and the South with respect to
slaves?
6. How did mercantilist regulations hurt the economies of North America? How did
they benefit Europeans?
Slav
Royal African Co.
Robert Sieur de la Saffe
King William’s War
Portuguese
Madeira
Sugarcane
Barbados
Martinique
Polygyny
Timbuktu
Saharan caravans
Mali
Mansa Musa
Songhai
Olaudah Equino
Slavers
John Hawkins
Angol
Gold Coast
Panyaring
Barracoons
Middle Passage
Slaving states
Flux
Chiweizu
Tidewater
Tobacco colonies
Elizabeth Pinckney
Indigo
Rice
James Oglethorpe
Spanish Slavery
Choctaw
Chickasaw
Natchez
John Woolman
Creoles
Kinship
Circle dance
Creole language
Acculturation
Maroons
Stono Rebellion
Adam Smith
Mercantilism
Queen Anne’s War
Peace of Utrecht
War of Jenkin’s Ear
King George’s War
Casa de Contratacion
Navigation Act
Wool Act of 1699
Hat Act of 1732
Iron Act of 1750
Commodity money
Walpole
Salutory Neglect
Molasses Act of 1733
Triangle Trade
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Unit I
Vocabulary
Chapter 5 The Cultures of Colonial North America 1700 – 1780
1.
Why did people enter into indentured servitude?
2.
How did the Enlightenment discourage religious devotion?
3.
Discuss why the French had better relationships with the Native Americans than did the British.
4.
Describe the role of the mission system in the Spanish colonies.
5.
Describe the Great Awakening and summarize its impact on certain colonial areas.
Out of Many
Chapter 5 The Cultures of Colonial North America 1700 – 1780
Deerfield raid
King William’s War
Iroquois
Creeks
Natchez
Chickasaw
Plains Indians
Meetinghouses
Roger Williams
John Locke
Toleration Act 1689
Congregationalists
Quakers
Artisans
Seminoles
Juan Cabrillo
Presidios
Mission system
Adobe
Richard Hakluyt
Long lot
General Court
Midwife
apprentice
Journeyman
Dower
‘freeland”
Espanotes
Mulattoes
Social mobility
French Cresant
New Spain
French Canada
Voting rights
Inquisition
Enlightenment
College of William and
Mary
Cotton Mather
Royal Society
Half Way Covenant
Sabrook Platform
arminianism
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Benjamin Franklin
William Tennent
Princeton University
New Lights
Old Lights