AP U.S. History
APUSH Maley/Fleming Summer Assignment
532 years of History
283 years Colonial America
249 years US America
233 years under the Constitution
159 years since the Civil War
136 years since Automobile invented
123 years since Manned Flight
104 years since Women could Vote Nationwide
79 years since World War II
53 years since PC invented
34 years since the Cold War
17 years since the I-phone invented
16 years since you were born
CONGRATULATIONS! You have decided to take on a significant challenge. AP United States History (APUSH) is a college level course covering everything that has ever happened in the United States…since 1491.
DO NOT TAKE THIS CHALLENGE LIGHTLY.
● If you think this class is going to be a breeze... think again.
● If you do not complete assignments... expect low grades.
● If you are not dedicated to accruing a wealth of knowledge about the United States
through all time periods ... get it together.
● If you do not think you are up to the challenge... when will you?
However, if you are willing to work hard and take a fully comprehensive look at United States History - you've come to the right place.
BOOK: The American Promise, ROARK. Our Guidance & Counseling Center will have extra copies of the textbook available over the summer.
TASK: Define each key term using only the textbook and the template below. These responses including key terms should be typed but don’t need to be. Please copy the vocabulary term and then provide the definition. This summer assignment is due by the end of the first week of school.
KEY TERM TEMPLATE
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WORD: ____________________________ (List ID word) When: (When was the person significant or when did the event take place - include a specific location if available) Who: (Who was the person? I.e. doctor, politician, dictator, etc.) (Who was involved in the event, etc) What: (What did they do that was important or what happened during the event) Historical Significance: (What did the person or events impact have in terms or new developments, creations, movements, advancements, future developments, etc) Word Example: |
KEY TERM SAMPLE
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ID: John Locke When: 1632-1704 Who: English Philosopher during the Enlightenment period and “Father of Classical Liberalism” What: Highly influential thinker that influenced many political leaders and countries. Used work from Voltaire and Rousseau. Historical Significance: Many theories and ideas about government, self, and identity that influenced future development of countries. Used ideas such as the social contract, limited government, tabula rasa, natural rights and labor theories. Highly influenced Thomas Jefferson with classical republicanism and liberal theory when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. |
CHAPTER 1
Paleo-Indians
Folsom hunters
Great Basin peoples
Clovis peoples
Northwest peoples
Woodland peoples
Southwestern peoples
Anasazi
Hopewell peoples
Mississippian peoples
Algonquian peoples
Muskogean peoples
Great Plains peoples
Folsom points
Pangaea
Continental drift
Homo sapiens
Wisconsin glaciation
Beringia
Hunter-gatherers
Pueblo
Burial mounds
League of Five Nations
Tenochtitlan
CHAPTER 2
Queen Isabella
King Ferdinand
Christopher Columbus
Prince Henry the Navigator
John Cabot
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
Montezuma
Francisco Pizarro
Hernando de Soto
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Bartolome de Las Casas
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
(King Charles I of Spain)
Martin Luther
Philip II
Jacques Cartier
Martin Frobisher
Bubonic plague
Caravel
Treaty of Tordesillas
Northwest Passage
Columbian exchange
Conquistador
Tenochtitlan
Incan empire
New Spain
Encomienda
Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Acoma pueblo revolt
Protestant reformation
Justification by faith
Roanoke
CHAPTER 3
Captain John Smith
Powhatan
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
James I
Charles I
Lord Baltimore
William Berkeley
Nathaniel Bacon
Pueblo Indians
Charles II
Virginia Company
Colonization
Jamestown
Royal colony
House of Burgesses
Tobacco
Headright
indentured servants
Yeoman
Navigation Acts
Mercantilism
Bacon’s Rebellion
CHAPTER 4
Roger Williams
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
James I
Charles I
Pilgrims
William Bradford
Wampanoag Indians
John Winthrop
John Calvin
Anne Hutchinson
John Cotton
Thomas Hooker
Oliver Cromwell
Quakers
Charles II
Duke of York
William Penn
Pequot Indians
James II
William III of Orange
Puritanism
Church of England
Separatism
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Company
Calvinism
Predestination
Town meeting
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Puritan Revolution
Navigation Acts
King Philip’s War
Glorious Revolution
King William’s War
CHAPTER 5
Benjamin Franklin
Iroquois Indians
Pennsylvania Dutch
Olaudah Equiano
Johathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Creek Indians
Cherokee Indians
Queen Anne’s War
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Middle Passage
Gold Coast
Stono rebellion
Congregational Church
Enlightenment
American Philosophical Society
Deism
Great Awakening
Seven Years’ War
Presidios
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