AP US HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT

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1 Name: Date: Period: AP US HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT Due Date: Thursday September 3 rd Greetings and welcome to your first AP US History assignment! To complete this assignment, it would be helpful to have the following book, which is available in the Media Center for checkout: Brinkley, Alan. American History: A Survey. New York: McGraw-Hill, th Edition. If you would like to purchase a prep book for the AP exam, the following are recommended: Barron s AP US History Newman, John J. and John M. Schmalbach. United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination. New York: Amsco. Princeton Review s AP US History *DO NOT BUY 5 Steps to a 5. The questions are too easy. Your assignment is to read the first 2 chapters in the textbook. Then, complete the following activities (multiple choice, identification, and short answer questions) as the directions indicate. Expect to be tested on this material within the first 2 weeks of school. If you do not have the textbook, use websites such as or nce/palotay/amsco.pdf MULTIPLE CHOICE Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is follow ed by five suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case and then circle the letter of that answer choice. 1. In the 1500s, Native Americans possessed a wide range of complex cultures. Each of the following gives evidence to support this statement EXCEPT: a. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan b. The organization of Inca society c. Natives Americans susceptibility to European diseases d. The Mayas agricultural system e. The Maya calendar 2. Which of the following best describes the way Europeans treated Native Americans in the 1500s and 1600s? a. Native Americans were regarded as inferior people subject to Christian domination b. Native American ways of life were respected c. Since nothing of value could be learned or obtained from the Native Americans, Europeans thought it was permissible to exterminate them d. Europeans cultivated good relations with Native Americans and sought to make them economic partners e. Only the English believed that Native Americans should be treated fairly 3. Which of the following was the LEAST important factor behind European exploration and settlement in the 16 th century? a. Increase in scientific knowledge and technological change b. Population increase c. Development of nation-states d. Competition for trade e. Religious commitment

2 4. By the end of the 16 th century, all of the following were generally true about Spain s colonial empire EXCEPT a. It was controlled by a bureaucracy in Madrid b. The Roman Catholic Church had great influence c. New universities were spreading education and culture d. Families continued to emigrate from Spain e. Great wealth was being sent back to Spain 5. The delay in founding English settlements in the Americas was the result of a. Weak English monarchs b. The lack of English territorial claims in the Americas c. Failure to develop trade with other nations d. Fear of Spain e. Religious upheavals in England 6. At the beginning of the 17 th century, all of the following factors served to increase the English role in America EXCEPT a. Defeat of the Spanish Armada b. Population growth c. Royal leadership d. Development of joint-stock companies e. Emigration for religious reasons 7. The survival of the Jamestown colony can be most directly attributed to the a. Religious spirit of the settlers b. Management of the Virginia Company c. Development of a tobacco industry d. Location of the settlement e. Nobles diligent search for gold 8. Which of the following sources would be most useful in studying the development of democratic institutions in the early colonial period? a. The Edict of Nantes b. The first charter of the Virginia Company c. Columbus journals d. The Treaty of Tordesillas e. The Mayflower Compact 9. Which of the following statements is the most widely accepted description of Columbus accomplishments? a. He discovered a New World b. He bears much of the blame for oppressing Native American peoples in North America c. He started a permanent relationship between Europe and the Americas d. He is responsible for most of the problems in the Americas during the colonial period e. His heroic deeds will always be respected by fair-minded American citizens 10. The issue of religion figured most prominently in the consideration of which of the following? a. The settlement of Jamestown b. The establishment of Puritan colonies in Massachusetts c. France s Indian Policy d. Discoveries by the Spanish conquistadores e. Spain s support of Columbus voyages

3 IDENTIFICATIONS Directions: For each term, write a relevant fact next to each bullet point that you learned from reading the first 2 chapters of the textbook. Adena Amerigo Vespucci Archaic period Asiento system

4 Aztecs Black Death Cahokia Captain John Smith

5 Christopher Columbus Clovis people Compass Conquistadores

6 Coureurs de bois Encomienda system Father Jacques Marquette Father Junipero Serra

7 Ferdinand and Isabella Ferdinand Magellan Francisco Pizarro Giovanni de Verrazano

8 Great Migration Henry Hudson Henry the Navigator Hernan Cortes

9 Hopewell Incas Iroquois Jacques Cartier

10 Jamestown John Cabot John Rolfe John Winthrop

11 Joint-stock company Land bridge Massachusetts Bay Colony Matrilineal

12 Mayas Mayflower Mayflower Compact Mercantilism

13 Meso-Americans Mestizos Mississippian Moors

14 Nation-states Native Americans New World Papal line of demarcation

15 Pawnee Pilgrims Plymouth Colony Pocahontas

16 Portugal Printing press Protestant Reformation Pueblo

17 Puritans Renaissance Roanoke Robert de la Salle

18 Royal colony Samuel de Champlain Seigneuries Separatists

19 Sioux Sir Humphrey Gilbert Sir Walter Raleigh Spain

20 Technology Tenochtitlan Trade Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

21 Vasco Nunez de Balboa Virginia Company Virginia House of Burgesses SHORT ANSWER Directions: Answer each question completely with a 1-paragraph answer. Paragraphs should be 5-8 sentences each. 1. What motivated the Spanish to colonize the Americas in the sixteenth century? On balance, was the Spanish arrival good or bad for the New World? What advantages and disadvantages did the Spanish have as colonizers?

22 2. How did contact between the European arrivals and the native people of the Americas affect both groups? 3. How might we explain the attitudes of Renaissance era Europeans toward the newly discovered Indians? Was the concern for Christianizing the Native Americans sincere? 4. Why did Europeans look to Africa for labor with which to develop the riches of the New World? To what extent did Africans themselves help to promote the slave trade? 5. What were the effects of the importation of African slaves into the Americas?

23 6. What were the most valid arguments used to promote English colonization in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? What relevance to the English did the example of Spain s colonizing venture in the New World have? 7. What is mercantilism and what did it have to do with the European colonization of North America? 8. How did Spanish settlement in America differ from that of the English, Dutch, and French? 9. How did the English experience at colonization in Ireland affect English colonization in America?