AP US Homework Sheet Unit 1:
Pre-Columbian Societies and European Colonization of the Americas
Date
Class Activities
Homework Due In Class Today
 Welcome to AP U.S.
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Wed
9/5
Syllabus
 Receive Unit 1 Packet
 Check out rest of books
 Lecture on Pre-Columbian Societies and First
 American Pageant Chapter 1 (bring notes for
each chapter with you the day they are due
because the notes will be checked off)
Encounters and Exploration – Spanish and
French
Thurs
9/6
 President Quiz 1-20
 Finish Chapter 1
 Completed Early Explorer Chart
 Discussion of Contrasting Viewpoints: Native  Read Documents 1-3 and take notes on them
American vs. European Conqueror
 Viewing of Woodcuts
 Lecture on the Colonization of the Southern
Fri
9/7
Mon
9/10
Tues
9/11
Colonies: Reasons for Colonization, Attempts
and Effects
 Using Primary Sources
 Introduction to APUS Essay Writing
 Lecture on the Colonization of the Northern
Colonies: Reasons for Colonization, Attempts
and Effects
 Get Unit 1 Review
 Historiography Discussion: Europeanizing
America or Americanizing Europe? (End of
Ch3)
 American Pageant Chapter 2
 Documents 4-6
 Primary Source Analysis worksheet for either
Doc 1 OR Doc 2
 American Pageant Chapter 3
 Documents 7-8
 Pageant pages 62-63
 Zinn Chapter 1 Notes
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 Zinn vs. Pageant – What is History? – A
discussion of Bias
Block
9/12
 Discussion of Notebook Organization
 Discussion of Chapter 3 Primary Sources
 Review ALL Colonies
 Geography – Mapping the 13 Colonies
 Intro to Test Taking Skills – AP US Multiple
Come prepared to discuss not only
what Zinn wrote in Chapter 1, but
where he is coming from and how
we can see that in his writing
 Southern Colony Chart and Northern Colony
Chart
 Documents 9-10
Choice Strategies
 Unit 1 Notebook including: Early Explorer
Friday
9/14
Chart; Southern Colony Chart; Northern
Colony Chart, Colony Map; Unit 1 Review
 Notebooks need to include all
handouts for the unit, lecture notes,
and chapter notes
 Multiple Choice Test on Unit 1
 Receive HW Sheet for Unit 2
AP US – Hamer
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Unit 1: Pre-Columbian Societies and European Colonization of the Americas
Content Covered:
Ancient History:
Geology; Population of the Americas; Life of Early Americans; Pre-Columbian American Indian
Empires and Culture
European Discovery of the Americas and Conquest:
Norse; Columbus; Conquest of North America in the Early 1600’s: Conquistadores; Conquest of
Mexico; Spread of Spanish America; Quebec; Jamestown
Interaction Between Cultures:
Disease; Trade; Clashes in the Chesapeake
Reasons for Discovery and Conquest:
Social and Economic Reasons for World Exploration; Changes in Elizabethan England; Virginia and
Tobacco; Maryland – Haven for Catholics; West Indies and Sugar; Carolinas and Land; Georgia Buffer Colony; Puritanism and Pilgrims; Massachusetts Bay Colony; Rhode Island; Spread of New
England; New Netherland and New Sweden; New York; Pennsylvania; The Middle Colonies; The
Southern Colonies
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Tension:
New England Confederation; Dominion of New England
Religious Issues:
Violence against Quakers; Religious Tolerance and Intolerance; Quakerism
 American Pageant Chapters 1- 3
 Zinn Chapter 1
Primary Reading:
Supporting Reading:
First Meetings Between Europe and Indigenous People
1. Juan Gines de Sepulveda Belittles the Indians (1547) – Document 1-A-1 TAS V1 (ps 1-3)
2. Bartolome de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552) – Document 1-A-2 TAS V1 (ps 3-5)
a. Use this set of primary sources to learn how to analyze primary sources. Primary Source
Analysis Sheet is due for either Source 1 or 2
3. Population Charts of Indian vs. Non-Indian Peoples - Document 1-1 DAAH V1
The Southern Colonies
4. The Starving Time (1609) – Document 2-A-1 TAS V1 (ps 28-31)
5. Checklist for the Virginia-Bound Colonists (1624) – Document 2-4 DAAH V1
6. The Great Indian Uprising (1622) – Document 2-B-1 TAS V1 (ps 32-33)
The Northern Colonies:
7. The Planting of Plymouth - Documents 3-A-1, 2, and 3 TAS V1 (ps 43-47)
8. Early Settlers in Pennsylvania - Document 3-E-2 TAS V1 (ps 65-66)
Colonization:
9. Patterns of Colonization - The American Republic, Volume I to 1865; Richard Hofstadter, William
Miller, Daniel Aaron; Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1959.
10. Lists of Emigrants for New England and Virginia
AP US – Hamer
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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.—A.D. 1769
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Marco Polo
Francisco Pizarro
Juan Ponce de León
Hernando de Soto
Montezuma
II.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
Renaissance
mestizos
Treaty of Tordesillas
Three sister farming
Great Ice Age
Mound Builders
Spanish Armada
black legend
6.
7.
8.
9.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Christopher Columbus
Hernán Cortés
Francisco Coronado
Father Junipero Serra
conquistadors
Aztecs
Popé’s Rebellion
Pueblo Indians
Canadian Shield
spice islands
encomienda
Iroquois Confederacy
III. Essay Questions:
26. In what ways might the European encounter with the Americas be seen as a disaster
or tragedy, and in what ways might it be seen as an inevitable development in the history of humanity with
long-run positive results?
27. What was the impact on the Indians, Europeans, and Africans when each of their previously separate
worlds “collided” with one another?
28. What fundamental factors drew the Europeans to the exploration, conquest, and settlement of the New
World? Explain.
29. What were the common characteristics of all Indian cultures in the New World, and what were the
important differences among them?
30. How did the geographic setting of North America—including its relation to Asia, Europe, and
Africa—affect its subsequent history?
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Chapter 2: The Planting of English America, 1500—1733
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Pocahontas
Powhatan
John Rolfe
Walter Raleigh
5.
6.
7.
James Oglethorpe
Oliver Cromwell
John Smith
II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
nation-state
joint-stock company
enclosure
House of Burgesses
royal charter
slave codes
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
longhouse
squatter
primogeniture
indentured servitude
starving time
II. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
19.
20.
21.
22.
First Anglo-Powhatan War
Second Anglo-Powhatan War
Act of Toleration
Barbados slave code
23. Virginia Company
24. Savannah Indians
25. Ireland
III. Essay Questions:
26. Compare and contrast the early colonial empires of Portugal, Spain, and England in terms of motives,
economic foundations, and relations with Africans and Indians. (See Chapter 1.) What factors explain the
similarities and difference in the two ventures?
27. Discuss the relations between the English settlers and the Indians of the southern
Atlantic coast.
28. How did the search for a viable labor force affect the development of the southern colonies? What was
the role of African-American slavery in the early colonial settlements?
Why were two southern colonies initially resistant to slavery?
29. What features were common to all of England’s southern colonies, and what features were peculiar to
each one?
30. What factors contributed to England’s establishment of colonies in North America?
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
William Bradford
4.
5.
6.
William Penn
John Winthrop
King Philip
II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:
7.
8.
9.
10.
the “elect”
predestination
“visible saints”
conversion
11. doctrine of a calling
12. covenant
13. antinomianism
III. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
Pilgrims
New England Confederation
Calvinism
Dominion of New England
Navigation Laws
Great Puritan Migration
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Puritans
Separatists
Quakers
Protestant ethic
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders
IV. Essay Questions:
26. How did the Purtians’ distinctive outlook affect the development of all the New England colonies?
27. Compare the pattern of relations between colonists and Indians in New England and Pennsylvania. Why
did attempts at establishing friendly relations fail?
28. What efforts were made to strengthen English control over the colonies in the seventeenth century, and
why did they generally fail?
29. Discuss the development of religious and political freedom in Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
New York, and Pennsylvania. How did the greater degree of such freedoms enjoyed by Rhode Island and
Pennsylvania affect life in those colonies?
30. What economic, social, and ethnic conditions typical of the early southern colonies (Chapter 2) were
generally absent in the New England and middle colonies? What characteristics did the middle colonies
have that were not generally present in the South?
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