Reading Questions/Guided over Colonial America: Completely answer each question below and define each term. Use complete sentences.

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1 APUSH Summer Reading Assignment 2016 Ms. Tidwell Dear Incoming AP US History Student, Congratulations on your decision to take AP US History. If you lose this packet, it will be available on the PHS website over the summer. Also, follow the class on Twitter for summer updates and reminders. Directions: 1. You will read Alan Taylor s Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction. (ISBN # ) The book is available to buy online at Barnes and Noble Book Store or Amazon. Do not wait until the last moment. I encourage you to buy a print edition rather than an e book. As you read, you will need to take notes over each chapter and answer the following questions. All notes must be hand written. You must write complete sentences. You will be allowed to use your notes on the test over the material. 2. Map of the United States Instruction Sheet and Maps in Packet 3. Thirteen Colonies Chart using Colonial America and internet resources, complete the chart Due Date: September 7th Failure to complete this summer assignment will mean you risk failing the 1st grading period of APUSH. Do not think that this is unimportant and that you can blow off this assignment. This is not a lesson you want to learn the hard way. Reading Questions/Guided over Colonial America: Completely answer each question below and define each term. Use complete sentences. Introduction 1. Describe American Exceptionalism and how it can give a one sided view of colonialism. 2. Explain the claim that from North American population decreased in population despite the massive amount of immigrants 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 Europeans to make voyages of exploration. 4. Effects of the first contact between Europeans and the western hemisphere. Paleo Indians Archaic Indians 3 crops Hohokam Pueblos Cahokia Reconquista Hidalgos Amerigo Vespucci Columbian Exchange Anasazi Columbus

2 New Spain 1. Describe how Spain was able to conquer and create a vast empire by List factors for the establishment of northern outposts. 3. What was the cost of native conversion? 4. Describe the role of the Franciscan friars. 5. Describe Spain s empire in Conquistadors Hernan Cortes Francisco Pizarro Encomienda Mestizos Hernando de Soto Francisco de Coronado St. Augustine Pope/Pueblo Revolt 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. Samuel Champlain Quebec Five Nations coureurs de bois New Orleans presidios Chesapeake Colonies 1. Factors that led 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. 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

3 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 taken to make Massachusetts A City Upon a Hill. 6. Reasons why the New England colonists had difficult relations with the Native Americans. Puritanism Separatists John Calvin William Laud Pilgrims Mayflower Great Migration Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop town system religious toleration Salem Witch Trials Praying towns King Philip 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. Charles Town Lord 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 The Great Awakening. William Penn Philadelphia Middle Colonies George Whitefield Empires Will read later in the 1st grading period.

4 Colony Year Founded Leader/Founder Type of Colony Government Reasons Founded and Sources of Economic Success New England Colonies Middle Colonies

5 Southern Colonies

6 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 4. Great Lakes 5. Missouri Mississippi Ohio River system 6. Columbia Snake River system 7. St. Lawrence River system Geographic features/landforms: (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 then 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 code 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.

7 Map 1

8 Map 2