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APUSH – Mr. Kallus – [email protected] Dear Incoming AP US History Student, Congratulations on your decision to take AP US History and more importantly be in my class (lol), now let’s start reading! Directions: 1. You will read Alan Taylor’s “Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction.” (ISBN # 978-0-19-976623-9) As you read, you will need to answer the following questions and you must write complete sentences. 2. Map of United States----Instruction Sheet and Maps below 3. Thirteen Colonies Chart—using Colonial America and internet resources complete the chart 4. Due Dates: First Day of Class TBD - Open Note Test over Colonial America Reading Questions: Introduction 1. Describe “American Exceptionalism” and how it can give a one-side view of colonialism. 2. Explain the claim that from 1492-1776 North American population decreased in population despite the massive immigration to the “New World”. 3. Explain adaptation of the Natives to the intrusion of newcomers. 4. List the importance of the Natives to European rivals. Encounters 1. First settlers in the western hemisphere. 2. Factors that caused nomadic tribes to settle in different regions. 3. Factors that led to Europeans to make voyages of exploration. 4. Effects of the first contact between Europeans and the western hemisphere.
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Transcript of APUSH – Mr. Kallus – [email protected]
APUSH – Mr. Kallus – [email protected] Dear Incoming AP US History Student,
Congratulations on your decision to take AP US History and more importantly be in my class (lol), now let’s start reading!
Directions:
1. You will read Alan Taylor’s “Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction.” (ISBN # 978-0-19-976623-9) As you read, you will need to answer the following questions and you must write complete sentences.
2. Map of United States----Instruction Sheet and Maps below
3. Thirteen Colonies Chart—using Colonial America and internet resources complete the chart
4. Due Dates:
First Day of Class
TBD - Open Note Test over Colonial America
Reading Questions:
Introduction
1. Describe “American Exceptionalism” and how it can give a one-side view of colonialism.
2. Explain the claim that from 1492-1776 North American population decreased in population despite the massive immigration to the “New World”.
3. Explain adaptation of the Natives to the intrusion of newcomers.
4. List the importance of the Natives to European rivals.
Encounters
1. First settlers in the western hemisphere.
2. Factors that caused nomadic tribes to settle in different regions.
3. Factors that led to Europeans to make voyages of exploration.
4. Effects of the first contact between Europeans and the western hemisphere.
APUSH – Mr. Kallus – [email protected] Terms:
Paleo Indians, Archaic Indians, 3 crops, Pueblos, Cahokia, Reconquista, hidalgos Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Columbian Exchange
New Spain
1. Describe how Spain was able to conquer and create a vast empire by 1550.
2. List factors for the establishment of northern outposts.
3. What was the cost of native conversions?
4. Describe the role of the Franciscan friars.
5. Describe Spain’s empire in 1700.
Terms:
Conquistadores, Hernán Cortes, Francisco Pizzaro, encomienda, Mestizos, Hernando de Soto, Francisco de Coronado, St. Augustine
New France
1. What are the factors for why France settled in the Canadian region?
2. Explain the mutual dependency between the French and Indians / Indian Tribes.
3. What are the results of the clashes / rivalries over the fur trade?
4. List ways the French attempted to populate New France.
5. Describe the “mutual accommodations” or middle ground.
6. Explain factors for the establishment of Louisiana.
7. Why did the French subsidize their colonies?
8. Factors of the rise of Great Plains Tribes / result.
Terms:
Samuel Champlain, Quebec, Five Nations, coureurs de bois, New Orleans, presidios
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Chesapeake Colonies
1. Factors that led to the English to settle in the Chesapeake region.
2. Reasons why the Chesapeake colonists had difficult relations with the Native Americans.
3. Describe Jamestown / factors for slow growth.
4. Reasons why the Virginia and Maryland Colonies eventually prospered.
5. Circumstances and consequences of Bacon’s Rebellion.
6. Reasons for the growth of slavery.
Terms:
Virginia, Black Legend, Sir Walter Raleigh, Roanoke, Powhatan, Pocahontas, John Rolfe /tobacco, Lord Baltimore, Law of coverture, indentured servants, William Berkeley, Nathaniel Bacon, New slave laws
New England
1. Describe the Puritan Rigor / view of government.
2. Factors that caused the New England colonies to differ from the Chesapeake colonies.
3. Reasons why the Pilgrims and Puritans came to Massachusetts.
4. Ways in which New Englanders made their living.
5. Steps to taken to make Massachusetts “A City upon a Hill”.
6. Reasons why the New England colonists had difficult relations with the Native Americans.
Terms:
Puritanism, Separatists, John Calvin, William Laud, Pilgrims, Mayflower, Great Migration, Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, town system, religious toleration, Salem Witch Trials, King Phillip
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West Indies and Carolina
1. Reasons why growing sugar was so important to the British.
2. Reasons why West Indies planters moved to the Carolinas in the 1670s.
3. Reasons for the growth of slavery in the Carolina colonies.
4. Features of interest about the settlement of Georgia.
Terms:
Charles Town, Lords Proprietor, Stono Rebellion, James Oglethorpe
British America
1. Features of interest about the Dutch and the Navigation Acts.
2. Features of interest about the settlement of Pennsylvania.
3. British Efforts to govern her American colonies.
4. The Migration of Scots, Germans, and slaves to the colonies.
5. Causes and consequences of “The Great Awakening”.
Terms:
William Penn, Philadelphia, Middle Colonies, George Whitefield
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Name_____________________________________________________________Period____________
Thirteen Colonies Chart
As you read through your book and using internet resources, fill in the chart for the original thirteen colonies.
Colony Year Founded
Leader/Founder Type of Colony
Government Reasons Founded and Source of Economic Success
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
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Colony Year Founded
Leader/Founder Type of Colony
Government Reasons Founded and Source of Economic Success
Southern Colonies
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Directions: Using resources you find on your own, carefully fill in the following maps with the items listed below. Please read the list carefully and completely before beginning your work.
MAP 1
Bodies of Water: (label only, in black pen)
1. Atlantic Ocean
2. Pacific Ocean
3. Caribbean Sea
4. Great Lakes
5. Missouri-Mississippi-Ohio River System
6. Columbia-Snake River System
7. St. Lawrence River System
Geographic features: (generic outline, color in light brown color pencil and label in black pen)
1. Appalachian Mountains
2. Rocky Mountains
3. Great Basin
4. Great Plains
5. Location of the Bering Land Bridge
6. Tidewater Region
European Colonial Claims by 1700: Draw in the colonial claims and label according to the color code as listed below in colored pencils.
1. English, stripe in purple
2. French, stripe in blue
3. Spanish, stripe in red
The Original Thirteen Colonies: Draw in the colonies and then label. When you are finished, color as listed below in colored pencils.
1. Color New England colonies yellow
2. Color Middle Colonies orange
3. Color Southern Colonies light green
Create a KEY to add on the front of the map.
MAP 2
Label each of the 50 states in black pen.
Star Washington, D.C. and label in blue pen.
Name___________________________________________ Period______________
