WSHS AP United States History:
Summer Assignment 2007
Ms. Tran's Letter to Parents

You should read pages xxxiii through 79 (Prologue, Chapters 1, 2 and 3).  You should take notes on these pages in addition to the assignment below.  You will be responsible for the information in these chapters and all of it may not be discussed in detail in class.  By doing this assignment over the summer, we will be in a much more advantageous position next year.You also need to answer the IDENTIFICATIONS and accompanying QUESTIONS.  These will be collected during the first week of school.  

IDENTIFICATION:  Identify
1. What/who these people were
2. A time reference
3.  and the SIGNIFICANCE of them.

ANSWER ON YOUR OWN PAPER!  The IDS should be on one paper and the questions should be on a different paper.

If you have questions:  you can email me at Margaret.Tran@fcps.edu

1.     Continental Divide
2.     Great Plains
3.     Fall line
4.     Tidewater region


Chapter 1:  America Begins

1.      League of the Iroquois
2.     Anasazi (Pueblo) culture
3.     Woodland (mound-building) culture
4.     Cahokia
5.     Slash and burn
6.     Reciprocity

 SHORT ANSWER
Answer the following questions in complete sentences as they relate to information in Chapter 1.

7.     Describe the social structure that might have been found in a Native American tribe at the time of the first European contacts. What were the patterns of family structure, roles for men and women, property ownership, work and religion?

8.     Pre-Columbian Native Americans were not exclusively nomadic, nor did they live exclusively in small villages.  Many lived in major cities.  Describe such pre-Columbian cities, using Cahokia as an example.

 
 Chapter 2:  Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1630

  1. Social reciprocity
  2. Joint-stock company
  3. Family as the “little commonwealth”
  4. Martin Luther         
  5. John Calvin  
  6. The “conversion experience”
  7. Anabaptists
  8. Jesuits
  9. Church of England
  10.  Non-Separatist Puritans
  11.   Separatist Puritans
  12.  The “new slavery”
  13.  Vasco de Balboa
  14.  Ferdinand Magellan
  15.  Northwest Passage
  16.  Jacques Cartier
  17.  Conquistadors
  18.  Hernan Cortes
  19.  Juan Ponce de Leon
  20.  Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
  21.  Samuel de Champlain
  22.  Elizabethan “sea dogs”
  23.  The “lost colony”
  24.  James I
  25.  Virginia Company of Plymouth
  26.  Virginia Company of London
  27.  Captain John Smith
  28.  Pocahontas
  29.  Opechancanough
  30.  Jamestown’s “starving time”     
  31.  Mayflower Compact        
  32.  Squanto and Samoset
  33.  Fort Nassau
  34.  New Amsterdam/New Netherlands                          

SHORT ANSWER
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Be sure to use detail from the chapter. 

35.  Compare and contrast black African and Native American societies BEFORE European contacts.

36.  How did economic change and religious upheaval affect European exploration and settlement of the Western Hemisphere?

37.  What did he French, Dutch and Swedish colonies have in common?  How were they different?  Why were those colonies significant? What impact did each of them have on the Native American populations?
38.  Explain the economic, political and technological changes that enabled European expansion after 1460.
 
39.  Discuss the “new slavery” that emerged in the 15th and 16th centuries. 
 
40.  Compare the experiences of the first English settlements:  Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth.  Compare motivations for settlement, economic conditions and race relations.   What problems did colonists face and what lessons did they learn from their mistakes?


Chapter 3-Expansion and Diversity:  The Rise of Colonial America

  1. Charles I
  2. John Winthrop                
  3. Praying Indians/praying towns     
  4. The “New England Way”
  5. Roger Williams
  6. Anne Hutchinson
  7. Antinomianism
  8. Oliver Cromwell
  9. The Half-Way Covenant
  10.  King Phillip’s War                     
  11.  Tituba                  
  12. Lord Baltimore
  13. Bacon’s Rebellion
  14. Slave codes
  15. “Beaver Wars”

 

SHORT ANSWER

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Be sure to use detail from the chapter. 

 16.  What did John Winthrop mean when he spoke of his “city upon a hill”?  To what extent were Puritans successful in building that city?  How and why did the market economy threaten and ultimately transform their city?

 17.  Compare the three different societies that composed English North America: New England, the West Indies, and the Chesapeake.  To what extent can New England and the English West Indian colonies be considered “polar opposites,” and the Chesapeake colonies a middle ground?  Consider the following:  land use, labor, economy, religion, freedom of thought, family and community life, relations  between whites and blacks, and between Europeans and Native Americans, environmental factors, and local government.

 18.  Compare the “Restoration” colonies:  Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.  Why were they founded, who settled there, and how did the social, economic and political systems of those colonies compare?

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