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LACHSA AP US History Summer Assignment: Parts III and IV Reading, Questions and
Vocabulary Terms
Directions: 1) Read Chapters 1 - 5 in The American Pageant 2) Answer Chapter Questions by legibly handwriting answers into the hardcopy
packet (do not type*). 3) Define Key Terms for each chapter by legibly handwriting answers into the hardcopy
packet (do not type*) * If you have an accommodation or injury that allows you to type the answers to all work, please email Ms. Cholko to obtain approval to do so. She will then be able to send you an electronic version.
For the summer Assignment for AP US History, you will be issued a copy of The American Pageant.
Chapter Chapter Title Pages
1 New World Beginnings (33,000 B.C.E.- 1769 C.E.)
2 - 23
2 The Planting of English America (1500-1733) 25 - 40
3 Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700) 42 - 61
4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century (1607-1692) 62 - 76
5 Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (1700-1775) 78 - 100
Chapter Questions Grading Rubric
● 2 pts - for every correct and thorough (3 - 4 complete sentence) response to the question
● 1 pt - for partially correct (1 - 2 sentence) response to the question ● 0 pt - for blank or incorrect response
Chapter Total Questions Points Possible Points Earned
Chapter 1
15 30
Chapter 2
15 30
Chapter 3
15 30
Chapter 4
15 30
Chapter 5
15 30
TOTAL 75 150
A 135 – 150 B 120 – 134 C 105 – 119 D 90 – 104 F 89 or
below
AP US History -- Chapter 1 Questions 1. Discuss the shaping of North America.
2. Describe how the early people came to America.
3. Describe the people of the America’s by the time of the Europeans arrival.
4. Discuss the importance of corn among the Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America.
5. Describe the settlements of the native peoples of North America on the eve of the European’s arrival.
6. Describe the indirect discoveries of the New World.
7. Discuss how the Europeans entered Africa.
8. Discuss the importance of the Portuguese involvement in Africa.
9. How did Columbus come upon the New World?
10. Discuss the exchange of goods between the New World and the Old World.
11. How and why did Spain become the dominant colonial power?
12. Discuss the impact of colonization on Mexico.
13. Why was Spain so interested in Mexico?
14. Discuss how the Spanish protected their imperial possession of the New World.
15. Discuss the role of Christianity in the New World.
AP US History -- Chapter 2 Questions 1. Discuss how King Henry VIII break from the Catholic Church launched the Protestant
Reformation.
2. Describe how Elizabeth I promoted Protestantism and power over Spain.
3. Discuss how England’s victory over Spain prompted them to enter into the New World.
4. Discuss the impact of the economic depression during the seventeenth century on England.
5. Discuss the significance of the Virginia Company and Jamestown.
6. How did the native people first receive the English?
7. Discuss the culture classes in the Chesapeake.
8. Discuss the impact of English settlement for the native populations.
9. Describe the impact of tobacco on the Virginia settlement.
10. Discuss how Maryland was a Catholic refuge.
11. Discuss how the West Indies was a way station to Mainland America.
12. Describe slavery in the West Indies.
13. Discuss how the Carolina’s were colonized.
14. Describe how Georgia became known as the buffer colony.
15. Describe the distinctive features of the plantation colonies.
AP US History -- Chapter 3 Questions 1. Describe how the Protestant Reformation helped produce Puritanism.
2. Discuss the reasons why the Pilgrims set sail and landed in Plymouth.
3. Discuss the cause and significance of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
4. Describe the government in the Bay Colony.
5. Discuss the cause for dissention in the Bay Colony.
6. Discuss the formation of the Rhode Island colony.
7. Describe how New England spread out into the Connecticut River.
8. Discuss the growing conflict between the Puritans and the Indians.
9. Discuss the cause and outcome of the colonial unity of the mid seventh century.
10. Discuss the Glorious Revolution and it’s impact on the colonies.
11. Discuss New Netherland and it’s impact on colonial America.
12. Discuss the relationship between New England and their Dutch neighbors.
13. Discuss the rise of Quakerism in Pennsylvania.
14. Describe the relationship between the Quakers and their neighbors.
15. Discuss the middle colonies and why they were considered the “bread colonies.”
AP US History -- Chapter 4 Questions 1. Discuss why the Chesapeake was considered unhealthy.
2. Describe impact of tobacco and land acquisition and the labor force.
3. Discuss the rise of the headright system in Virginia and Maryland.
4. Discuss the frustrated Freeman and Bacon’s Rebellion.
5. Discuss the rise of slavery in the colonies.
6. Describe the Atlantic Slave Trade.
7. Discuss the difference between slave and servant and how that distinction was clarified with black codes.
8. Describe the Southern Society.
9. Describe the New England Family.
10. Describe the Southern Family.
11. Discuss life in the New England towns.
12. Discuss the jeremiad and the Half-way Covenant.
13. Discuss the persecution of witchcraft in the colonies.
14. Describe the New England way of life.
15. Discuss the early settler’s days and ways.
AP US History -- Chapter 5 Questions 1. Discuss the conquest by the cradle.
2. Discuss the mingling of the races in colonial America.
3. Discus the rise of Africans in America and the impact it had on colonial life.
4. Describe the change from African to African American.
5. Describe the structure of the colonial society.
6. Describe the role and influence of the clergy, physicians and jurists.
7. Discuss the Workday America and the impact of agriculture and trade for the colonies.
8. Describe the road system in colonial America and the importance of taverns for information and communication.
9. Compare and contrast the two dominant denominations in colonial America.
10. Describe the cause and impact of the Great Awakening.
11. Discuss the rise of schools and colleges in New England.
12. Compare and contrast colonial and European culture.
13. Discuss the impact of the press and the Zenger decision.
14. Describe the basic structure of the colonial governments.
15. Describe the life of the everyday colonist.
Vocabulary Grading Rubric
● 1 pt - for every correct, complete (2 sentence) description of a term, including an accurate description of how it relates to US History
● 0 pt - for blank or incorrect descriptions of a term
Chapter Total Terms
Points Possible Points Earned
Chapter 1
30 30
Chapter 2
32 32
Chapter 3
37 37
Chapter 4
13 13
Chapter 5
22 22
TOTAL 134 134
A 121 – 134 B 107 – 120 C 94 – 106 D 80 – 93 F 79 or
below
Sample Response Write a brief, 2 sentence (or bullet point) description of the term or person and their explains their historical significance
Aztecs A warrior people who dominated the Valley of Mexico from about 1100 until their conquest in 1959 – 1921 by Spanish soldiers led by Hernan Cortes. Aztec empire expanded through military conquests, included sacrificial victims and tribute payments (early taxes).
AP US History -- Chapter 1 Vocabulary Term Write a brief, 2 sentence (or bullet point) description of
the term or person and their explains their historical significance
1 Canadian Shield
2 Incas
3 Nation-states
4 Cahokia
5 Three-sister farming
6 Middlemen
7 Caravel
8 Plantation
9 Columbian Exchange
10 Treaty of Tordesiillas
11 Enconmienda
12 Niche trite
13 Capitalism
14 Mestizos
15 Conquistadores
16 Battle of Acoma
17 Pope’s Rebellion
18 Black Legend
19 Ferdinand of Aragon
20 Isabella of Castile
21 Christopher Columbus
22 Francisco Coronado
23 Francisco Pizarro
24 Bartolome de Las Casas
25 Hernan Cortes
26 Malinche
27 Moctezuma
28 Giovanni Caboto
29 Robert de La Salle
30 Father Junipero Serra
AP US History -- Chapter 2 Vocabulary Term Write a brief, 2 sentence (or bullet point) description of
the term or person and their explains their historical significance
1 Protestant Reformation
2 Roanoke Island
3 Spanish Armada
4 Primogeniture
5 Joint-stock company
6 Virginia Company
7 Charter
8 Jamestown
9 First Anglo-Powhatan War
10 Second Anglo- Powhatan War
11 House of Burgesses
12 Act of Toleration
13 Barbados slave code
14 Squatters
15 Iroquois Confederacy
16 Tuscarora War
17 Yamasee Indians
18 Buffer
19 Henry VIII
20 Elizabeth I
21 Si Francis Drake
22 Sir Walter Raleigh
23 James I
24 Captain John Smith
25 Powhatan
26 Pocahontas
27 Lord De La Warr
28 John Rolfe
29 Lord Baltimore
30 Oliver Cromwell
31 James Oglethorpe
32 Hiawatha
AP US History -- Chapter 3 Vocabulary Term Write a brief, 2 sentence (or bullet point) description of
the term or person and their explains their historical significance
1 Calvinism
2 Predestination
3 Conversion
4 Puritans
5 Separatists
6 Mayflower Compact
7 Massachusetts Bay Colony
8 Great English Migration
9 Antinomianism
10 Fundamental Orders
11 Pequot War
12 King Philip’s War
13 New England Confederation
14 English Civil War
15 Dominion of New England
16 Navigation Laws
17 Glorious (or Bloodless) Revolution
18 Salutary neglect
19 Patroonships
20 Quakers
21 Blue laws
22 Martin Luther
23 John Calvin
24 William Bradford
25 John Winthrop
26 Anne Hutchinson
27 Roger Williams
28 Massasoit
29 Metacom (King Philip)
30 Charles II
31 Sir Edmund Andros
32 William II
33 Mary II
34 Henry Hudson
35 Peter Stuyvesant
36 Duke of York
37 William Penn
AP US History -- Chapter 4 Vocabulary Term Write a brief, 2 sentence (or bullet point) description of
the term or person and their explains their historical significance
1 Indentured servants
2 Headright System
3 Bacon’s Rebellion
4 Royal African Company
5 Middle Passage
6 Slave Codes
7 Congregational Church
8 Jeremiad
9 Half-Way Covenant
10 Salem Witch Trials
11 Leisler’s Rebellion
12 William Berkeley
13 Nathanial Bacon
AP US History – Chapter 5 Vocabulary
Term Write a brief, 2 sentence (or bullet point) description of the term or person and their explains their historical significance
1 Paxton Boys
2 Regulator movement
3 New York slave revolt
4 South Carolina slave revolt
5 Triangular trade
6 Molasses Act
7 Arminianism
8 Great Awakening
9 Old lights
10 New lights