AP United States History

Summer Assignment 2017 Susquehanna Township School District

Dear Students,

Welcome to APUSH for the 2017-18 school year! Advanced Placement United States History, APUSH, is an accelerated and advanced US History course that is similar to a college-survey class. The class will cover the time period starting with pre-Columbian Native Americans through the present. This includes chronological coverage of major eras, periods, and events as well as American economic, cultural, social, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history.

You will now be charged with the role of a historian and will engage in activities that encourage critical thinking and develop your ability to debate established historical interpretations and express your educated views using primary source documents. Throughout the year, you will actively compare cultures and look for historical patterns that stretch across time periods and tie all human populations together through history.

The primary purpose of this summer assignment is to help you acquire the base knowledge necessary for instant immersion in APUSH once the 2017- 18 academic year begins. You must complete all of the assignments and readings. The assignments are due on August 29th, 2017; except the notecards which are due the day of your first quiz. The assignments must be hand written, legible and in your own words. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Please note that work that contains plagiarism will earn a zero. You will have a quiz on the material from your summer work on Friday, September 1st.

Late assignments will not be accepted. It is important that you show you are capable of successfully completing this independent assignment in the time allotted. The only exception will be those students that enrolled new to our school; if this is the case please see me or email me asap. Anyone that registered prior to the school start date will be expected to have the assignment completed by the first day of school.

A Special Note about Plagiarism: Plagiarism, the act of taking credit for the academic work of someone else, will not be tolerated in AP United States History and at Susquehanna Township High School.

If you have any questions regarding this assignment, please contact me via email at bbrant@hannasd.org.

To Do:

1. Purchase the APUSH Crash Course book, this will help you greatly in class but especially for the AP test and final exam. https://www.amazon.com/History-Course-Online-Advanced-Placement/dp/073861226X

2. Purchase or borrow from your local library the book, Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz. We will be using this book later in the school year, so reading it now might be helpful for you time-wise. https://www.amazon.com/Confederates-Attic-Dispatches-Unfinished-Civil/dp/067975833X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495637232&sr=1-1&keywords=confederates+in+the+attic+tony+horwitz

3. Please go on my teacher page, found on the Susquehanna Township High School website and make yourself comfortable with where things can be found.

4. Please go to the tab on my teacher page marked APUSH College Board Need to Know- look over how the time periods are broken down. Also familiarize yourself with the documents on LEQs and DBQs, which are writings you will be learning how to complete during class.

5. Access the Readings/Printables section. In this section you will find the first chapter of your textbook and several readings that you will need to complete the summer work questions in this packet. Many of these are also listened under the links tab since they are also available on the internet.

6. Make sure you complete each activity completely. Use full sentences with correct grammar and spelling to answer questions. (Notecards may be blurbs instead of full sentences.)

7. The map of the United States needs to be completed with state names and abbreviations for the states. You DO NOT have to put the capitals on the map.

8. Note cards should be completed in the following way Front of the card Back of the card Your initials

Term

Period

Description

Importance/significance

Example BLB

Vernacular

Period 1

Native/indigenous language of a people The increased of books written in the vernacular during the Renaissance, instead of in Latin, led to increased literacy

Use the Textbook to complete the following questions

Questions to Answer/Analyze- They must be in your own handwriting, legible and in your own words.

Part One: Founding the New Nation (pages 2-3)

1. Based on the summary presented on these pages to the time period of 1783 C.E. what will you be learning about during the first marking period?

Chapter 1: New World Beginnings (pages 4-24)

Key Concept 1.1

1. How did native populations in North America develop complex societies based on their interactions with the environment and each other?

2. How did maize cultivation, hunting and foraging lead to economic and social diversification among native societies?

3. Why did native populations in the Great Basin and the western Great Plains develop mobile lifestyles?

Key Concept 1.2

1. How did European overseas expansion lead to the Columbian Exchange?

2. How did Spanish and Portuguese exploration and conquest of the Americas lead to widespread epidemics, the emergence of the racially mixed populations, and a caste system?

3. How and why initially was slave labor from Africa used in the Americas?

4. What was the motivation for European exploration and conquest?

5. How did the new sources of mineral wealth in the Americas assisted the European shift from feudalism to capitalism?

Key Concept 1.3

1. How did the poor understanding of the Native Americas on the part of the Spanish and Portuguese lead to debates about how to treat them?

2. In what ways did Europeans attempt to change Native American beliefs and views? How did that lead to resistance and conflict?

Key Concept 2.1

1. How did Spain attempt to establish tight control over the process of colonization in the Western Hemisphere and convert and/or exploit the native population?

Key Concept 2.2

1. How did Spanish colonizing efforts in North America, particularly after the Pueblo Revolt, saw accommodations with some aspects of American Indian culture?

Primary Sources and Questions

Christopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage (1492)

1. Why do you think Columbus focused on these details about the natives he encountered?

2. Besides riches, what motivation for exploration can you see in Columbus’s account of his meeting with the natives?

Bartolome De Las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)

1. How does Las Casas characterize the native peoples he writes about? How does his description compare to that of Columbus (above document)?

2. By the time Las Casas wrote this, he had been a Dominican friar for nearly thirty years. What role did religion play in shaping his interpretation of Spain’s treatment of natives?

Notecards- Use index cards or cut paper into the same shape to make (Chapter 1- Period 1)

Canadian Shield

Incans

Aztecs

Nation-states

Three-sister farming

Caravel

Columbian Exchange

Treaty of Tordesillas

Encomienda

Noche triste

Capitalism

Battle of Acoma

Pope’s Rebellion

Black Legend

Christopher Columbus

Francisco Pizarro

Bartolome de Las Casas

Francisco Coronado

Robert de La Salle

Giovanni Caboto

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