UNIT 1: Colonial America pre-1492-1754
Big Picture: (2.5weeks- 3 weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date for Binder, Terms, DBQ
FRQ etc… will be September 8thth (Day A) and September 9th (Day B)
How did the diversity of peoples, economics, geography and religion help create an
American identity in the British colonial regions?
Themes: American diversity, identity, religion, slavery and its legacies
Required Readings:
Chapters 1-4 in Divine
Chapter 2 in Zinn: “Drawing the Color Line” (Zinn Write Up Due August 28th/August 29th)
Primary Sources: Complete an APPARTS WORKSHEET FOR EACH. DUE DATE: UNIT 1 EXAM
Listed on website in AP US PRIMARY SOURCE FOLDER- MUST BE PRINTED AND BROUGHT TO
CLASS.
Of the Island of Hispaniola, De las Casas; Reasons for Raising a Fund to Settle
America, Hakluyt; Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God, Edwards; What is an
American? Crevecoeur
Core Structure Sheets: Due UNIT 1 EXAM
1) How did economic, geographic and social factors encourage the growth of
slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies between
1607 and 1775?
2) Compare the ways in which TWO of the following reflected tensions in
colonial society.
Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
Pueblo Revolt (1680)
Salem witchcraft trials (1692)
Stono Rebellion (1739)
Content:
Pre-Columbian Societies
Early inhabitants of the Americas
American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley
American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact
First European contacts with American Indians
Spain’s empire in North America
French colonization of Canada
English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South
From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region
Religious diversity in the American colonies
Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo
Revolt Population growth and immigration
Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports
The eighteenth-century back country
Growth of plantation economies and slave societies
The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening
Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America
TERMS TO KNOW- Terms must be done in your SPIRAL NOTEBOOK. Terms should not only
define but illustrates the term’s significance; a mere definition will lead in a reduction of a
grade. TERMS MUST BE NUMBERED! DO THEM IN ORDER
1) Christopher Columbus
2) Amerindians
3) “three sisters:” maize, squash, beans
4) “semi-sedentary” societies
5) matrilineal
6) matrilocal
7) Pueblo
8) Creek
9) Choctaw
10) Iroquois Confederacy
11) longhouse
12) Hernan Cortés, Aztecs
13) Francisco Pizarro, Inca
14) “Black Legend”
15) St. Augustine
16) New France
17) Samuel de Champlain
18) Quebec
19) coureurs de bois
20) voyageurs
21) Jesuits
22) Algonquins
23) Hurons
24) Spain
25) New Mexico
26) Pueblo Indians
27) Santa Fe
28) Encomienda
29) mission system
30) mestizos
31) Pope’s Rebellion (Pueblo Revolt), 1680
32) English colonies
33) Plymouth
34) Pilgrims
35) Wampanoags
36) Squanto
37) Thanksgiving
38) Pequot War
39) New England Confederation
40) King Philip’s War
41) Quakers, pacifism
42) Chesapeake
43) John Smith
44) Powhatans
45) Anglo-Powhatan Wars
46) Bacon’s Rebellion
47) Carolinas
48) Tuscarora
49) Yamasee
50) Dutch
51) New Netherlands
52) Dutch East India Company
53) Peter Minuit
54) Manhattan
55) Columbian Exchange
56) Church of England (Anglican Church)
57) Chesapeake
58) Virginia
59) Jamestown, 1607
60) Virginia Company
61) Virginia Charter
62) “starving time”
63) Captain John Smith
64) Powhatans
65) Pocahantas
66) John Rolfe
67) tobacco
68) House of Burgesses
69) Maryland
70) Lord Baltimore
71) Act of Toleration, 1639
72) “headright” system
73) indentured servants
74) Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676
75) Governor Berkeley
76) Nathanial Bacon
77) Carolinas
78) “Restoration” colonies
79) British West Indies
80) Restoration colonies
81) Rice and indigo
82) Charles Town
83) North Carolina
84) Georgia
85) James Oglethorpe
86) Middle Passage
87) slave codes
88) Gullah
89) Stono Rebellion
90) Protestant Reformation
91) Martin Luther
92) John Calvin
93) Calvinism
94) predestination
95) the “elect”
96) “visible saints”
97) Church of England
98) Puritans
99) Separatists
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Pilgrims
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John Robinson
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Mayflower
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Plymouth Bay
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Mayflower Compact
105)
Wampanoags (Pokanokets)
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Thanksgiving
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Squanto
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Massasoit
109)
Massachusetts Bay Colony
110)
Archbishop Laud
111)
“Great Migration”
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John Winthrop
covenant theology
A Model of Christian Charity
Congregational Church
townhall meetings
“established”
John Cotton
Cambridge Platform
Quakers
Anne Hutchinson
antinomianism
Roger Williams
“liberty of conscience”
jeremiad
Half-way Covenant
Salem Witch Trials
Cotton Mather
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
Fundamental Orders
Pequot War
New England Confederation
King Philip’s War
Metacomet
Dominion of New England
Charles II
mercantilism
Navigation Laws
“Glorious Revolution”
“First American Revolution”
Sir Edmund Andros
perfectionism
Harvard College
Massachusetts School of Law
New Netherlands
Peter Minuit
Manhattan Island
New Amsterdam
patroonship
Peter Stuyvesant
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New York
New York Chapter of Liberties
Leisler’s Rebellion
Pennsylvania
Quakers
William Penn
“Holy Experiment”
New Jersey
Delaware