APUSH Summer Reading

Test Review

Which nations colonized North America?

• Early?• Later?• Motives?

Describe Spanish colonies?

What were Britain’s first colonies in N.A.?

• Similarities?• Differences?

What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

Dissenters?

Settlements of other religious groups?

• Maryland?• Pennsylvania?

Effects of expansion on religion?

• Great Awakening

How thorough was British control?

• Salutary neglect

Efforts at colonial unity?

• Albany Conference/Plan

Impact of French-Indian War?

• Good?• Bad?

Efforts at British control?

• Proclamation of 1763 (Native Americans)• Grenville’s dilemma• Stamp Act

Beginnings of violence?

• Boston “massacre” and Sons of Liberty (Paul Revere)

How did British seek to reassert control?

• Coercive/Intolerable Acts• Colonial response– Committees of Correspondence– First Continental Congress– boycotts

Armed conflict erupts

• Lexington• Breed’s/Bunker Hill

What was the impact of Common Sense?

Efforts to create a national government

• Articles of Confederation

Zinn on traditional approach to Columbus

How should history be portrayed?

Efforts to solve Jamestown labor shortage

• Incentives to settlement• Forced labor (indentured servants, Native

Americans or African Slaves?)

Indentured servitude

• Number• Motive for settlement• Status• Bacon’s Rebellion– Motivation– Aftermath

Why didn’t slaves resist?

• They did!

What was the Middle Passage?

Why didn’t poor whites and blacks make common cause?

Why did racism emerge according to Zinn?

What was the Regulator Movement?