APUSH Unit 1 Review Packet
(chapters 1-5)
(use this outline as a guide for your notes on this unit)
1) The Cultures of Collision (Chapter 1)
a) Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations
b) European Visions of America
c) The Expansion of Europe
d) The Voyages of Columbus
e) The Great Biological Exchange
f) Professional Explorers
g) The Spanish Empire
h) The Protestant Reformation
i) Challenges to the Spanish Empire
2) Britain and Its Colonies
a) The English Background
b) Settling the Chesapeake
c) Settling New England
d) Indians in New England
e) The English Civil War in America
f) Settling the Carolinas
g) Settling the Middle Colonies
h) Thriving Colonies
3) Colonial Ways of Life
a) The Shape of Early America
b) Society and the Economy in the Southern Colonies
c) Society and Economy in New England
d) Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies
e) Colonial Cities
f) The Enlightenment
g)The Great Awakening
4) The Imperial Perspective
a) English Administration of the Colonies
b) The Habit of Self-Government
c) Troubled Neighbors
d) The Colonial Wars
5) From Empire to Independence
a) The Heritage of War
b. British Politics
c) Western Lands
d) Grenville and The Stamp Act
e) Fanning the Flames
f) Discontent on the Frontier
g) A Worsening Crisis
h) Shifting Authority
i) Independence
Skills
At the end of this unit, students should be able to:
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Compare and contrast the French, Spanish, & English colonial experiences
Compare and contrast the English colonies, particularly Virginia and Massachusetts
Describe the interactions of European settlers with Native Americans and African slaves
Analyze the development of American colonial culture
Describe and analyze the historical development of slavery in the Americas
Understand and analyze the importance and development of religious trends in the colonies
Explain the sequence of events leading to colonial dissatisfaction with British imperial policy.
Understand the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution.
Compare and contrast rebel and loyalist opinions to the Revolution.
Predict the future direction of the American colonies.
Explain the fundamental challenges to the American republic at the time of revolution.
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Why did slavery develop in the American colonies?
How did religion impact the colonial experience?
Why did Europeans find the Americas an attractive investment?
Was the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans a tragedy or a positive?
In what ways were the American colonies an experiment in economics, society, religion, and politics?
What colonial political developments had the greatest impact on the colonial experience?
Why did some Americans support revolution while others opposed it?
Did the British encourage revolution through salutary neglect?
How revolutionary was the American Revolution?
What happened to the issue of slavery during the American Revolution?
How genuine were American cries for liberty during the revolutionary period?
What happened to religion in this period?
What was the role of revival and Enlightenment in this period?
The following questions have been asked as AP Free Response (FRQ) and Document
Based Questions (DBQ) on this unit. Please outline answers to each 1 in your notebooks.
1. Compare the ways in which religion shaped the development of colonial society (to 1740) in TWO of the
following regions:
 New England
 Chesapeake
 Middle Atlantic
2. 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?
3. Analyze the cultural and economic responses of TWO of the following groups to the Indians of North
America before 1750
 British
 French
 Spanish
4. To what extent had the colonists developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the
Revolution (1750 to 1776)?
5. Analyze the extent to which religious freedom existed in the British North American colonies prior to 1700.
6. For the period before 1750, analyze the ways in which Britain’s policy of salutary neglect influenced the
development of American colonies as illustrated in the following:
 Legislative assemblies
 Commerce
 Religion
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Analyze the ways in which TWO of the following influenced the development of American society:
Puritanism during the seventeenth century
The Great Awakening during the eighteenth century
The Second Great Awakening during the nineteenth century
8. Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin,
by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in development occur?
9. Analyze the differences between the Spanish settlements in the Southwest and the English colonies in New
England in the seventeenth century in terms of TWO of the following:
 Politics
 Religion
 Economic Development
People, Terms and Concepts to know…
Proclamation Line of 1763
Grenville Plan
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Currency Act
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts
East India Company
Tea Act
Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
Sons of Liberty
Stamp Act Congress
Committees of Correspondence
1st Continental Congress
2nd Continental Congress
External v. internal taxes
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
Boston Massacre
Loyalists
Patriots
Quebec Act
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Samuel Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
George Washington
Patrick Henry
Abigail Adams
John Locke
Salutary Neglect
Writs of Assistance
Molasses Act
Revenue Act
Gaspee Incident
Paxton Boys
Regulators
Articles of Confederation
Robert Morris
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776
Lexington & Concord
Saratoga
Yorktown
French Alliance
Revival/ First Great Awakening
Powhatan Confederacy
Indentured Servant
Proprietary Colony
Royal Colony
Jamestown
Puritans
Separatists
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Halfway Covenant
Antinomianism
Arminianism
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Maryland Toleration Act
Bacon’s Rebellion
Freedom Dues
Halfway Covenant
First Great Awakening
Creolization of Culture
Leisler’s Rebellion
Boston Bread Riot of 1710
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
Albany Plan of Union
Salutary Neglect
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts (1660s)
Admiralty courts
Virtual Representation
Actual Representation
Mesoamerica
Amerindian
Cahokia
Mississippian Culture
Pueblo Indians
Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
Bartolome de las Casas
Treaty of Tordesillas
Hernan Cortes
Moctezuma
Mayans
Incas
Encomienda
Cartier
De Soto
Sir Walter Raleigh
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
James I
English Reformation
Humphrey Gilbert
Richard Hakluyt
Lost colony of Roanoke
Joint-Stock Company
Virginia Company
John Rolfe
The Starving Time
Jesuits
Enlightenment
Deism
William Penn
John Winthrop
John Peter Zenger
House of Burgesses
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations
Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
George Whitefield