Advanced Placement U.S. History 2015-2016
Summer Reading Assignment
Mrs. Plautz
Your enrollment in AP U.S. History for the 2015-2016 school
year signals the beginning of an exciting journey. The course
often presents students with a significant academic challenge,
However, based upon your efforts, I am confident that you will
be successful and expect that it will prove to be a rewarding
experience. The first step in the process is the completion of
the summer reading and note-taking requirement.
Please pick up a copy of your textbook, American
Pageant, AP Edition by David Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, 16th edition.
I recognize that the reading assignment is large and I appreciate your effort. The reading
assignments will enable us to make a strong start to the year.
Summer Reading Assignment
1. Read chapters 1-6 in The American Pageant.
2. Read chapter 1 in Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
Copies of A People’s History of the United States can be found at the public library, local
bookstores or online. There is also a free online version of the book at:
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnpeopleshistory.html. Students are encouraged to
access the book online.
Attached is a list of key terms, concepts, and historical figures to guide your reading and note
taking. Also there is a discussion prompt to outline. Shortly after classes begin there will be both
an objective test and a graded discussion based on the mastery of these readings and
assignments.
Have a wonderful summer and I look forward to meeting you at the beginning of the school
year. Please contact me if you have any questions at eplautz@whschool.org.
Terms
As you read the assignments in American Pageant, chapters 1-6 and A People’s History
of the United States, chapters 1, identify of the meaning of each and explain how the
term illustrates the theme (in bold, at the top of a group of terms.) Some terms are used
more than once. You may wish to have a separate your notes according to each theme.
IDENTITY
• Benjamin Franklin
• Slave Codes
• Roger Williams
• Hernando Cortes
• Quakers
• The Great
Awakening
• Lord Baltimore
• Slavery
• King Philip
(Pokunoket, Chief
Metacom)
ENVIRONMENT AND
GEORGRAPHY
• Christopher
Columbus
• John Smith
• John Rolfe
• Hernando Cortes
• Peter Stuyvesant
• Henry Hudson
• William Penn
• William Bradford
• Champlain
• Dutch West India
Company
• Mayflower
• Massachusetts Bay
Company
• Voyageurs
AMERICA IN THE WORLD
• French and Indian
War
• Lord Baltimore
• Benjamin Franklin
• Quebec
• Acadians
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WORK
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Huguenots
Conquistadors
Glorious Revolution
The Enlightenment
Enclosure
Squatter
Proprietor
Franchise
Patroonship
Yeomen
Massachusetts Bay
Company
Indentured Servitude
Headright System
Voyageurs
Joint-Stock Company
Virginia Company
Hunting, Gathering,
Fishing and Farming
Peopling (Demographics)
• Christopher
Columbus
• John Smith
• Conquistadors
• John Rolfe
• Pilgrims
• Lord Baltimore
• Walter Raleigh
• Bartoleme De Las
Casas
• James Olgethorpe
• Hernando Cortes
• Acadians
• Squatter
• Mestizos
• Great Puritan
Migration
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Yeomen
Middle Passage
Headright System
Paxton Boys
Huguenots
Proclamation of 1763
IDEAS
• Separatists
• John Calvin
• Old and New
Lights
• The “Elect”
• Protestant
Reformation
• Benjamin
Franklin
• Half Way
Covenant
• Anne Hutchison
• Roger Williams
• Thomas Hooker
• John Cotton
• William Penn
• Visible Saints
• Covenant
• Conversion
• Predestination
• Antinomianism
• Quakers
• Calvinism
• Protestant Ethic
• Institutes of the
Christian
Religion
• Jeremiads
• The Great
Awakening
• Jonathan Edwards
• George Whitefiield
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Phyllis Wheatly
John Peter Zenger
Hector Crevecoeur
Huguenots
POLITICS
• Dominion of New
England
• Royal Charter
• Spanish Armada
Separatists
• King Phillip’s War
• Quebec
• Restoration
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Walter Raleigh
Benjamin Franklin
Queen Anne’s War
King William’s War
Primogeniture
Maryland Act of
Toleration
House of Burgesses
Fundamental Orders
Navigation Laws
Mayflower Compact
Bible Commonwealth
New England
Confederation
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General Court
Bacon’s Rebellion
Regulator Movement
Molasses Act
Stono Rebellion
Pontiac Rebellion
Edward Braddock
James Wolfe
Proclamation of 1763
William Pitt
Edict of Nantes
War of Jenkins’s Ear
Discussion Prompt
Upon completion of the Summer Reading assignments consider the following AP
U.S. History essay prompt for our graded discussion at the end of the first week
of school.
1. How did the interactions between Europeans and indigenous peoples, African
slaves, and indentured servants shape colonial society in North America prior
to 1750? How does Howard Zinn’s A People’s History paint a different portrait
than the textbook American Pageant? Explain.