the summer assignment is due by july 30 , 2021

AP US History

Summer Course Assignment

The Summer Assignment is due by July 30th, 2021

Teacher: Mr. Moudry

Email: [email protected]

Textbook: Out of Many: A History of the American People Sixth Edition

ISBN -13: 978-0-13-137119-4

Course Details

The AP U.S. History course focuses on the development of disciplinary practices and reasoning

skills and an understanding of content organized around seven themes:

• American and National Identity

• Politics and Power

• Work, Exchange, and Technology

• Culture and Society

• Migration and Settlement

• Geography and the Environment

• America in the World

The course is divided into nine chronological periods (some units overlap chronologically due to

the different concepts covered in each unit):

• 1491-1607

• 1607-1754

• 1754-1800

• 1800-1848

• 1844-1877

• 1865-1898

• 1890-1945

• 1945-1980

• 1980-present

Directions: You need to read Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. An outline has

been provided for each chapter. You need to define the key terms, answer the

focus questions, read and analyze the primary sources, answer the primary

source questions, and the final DBQ question. Again, the complete summer

assignment is due by July 30th, 2021.

mailto:[email protected]

Do not use Wikipedia to define the terms, or to answer any questions. Your

textbook is the best resource. All questions you answer require more than one

sentence to answer (Suggested five sentences for each response, except for the

DBQ). At the end of this course you are required to take the college board

exam. You will answer multiple essay questions for the college board exam

including SAQs (Short Answer Questions), LEQs (Long Essay Questions), and

DBQs (Document Based Questions).

As you answer each question, be thinking how you can turn your response

into an argument. If you are just listing facts, you are not fully answering the

questions (although a few questions are just listing). You need to analyze each

question, which is not just listing facts. Try to build an argument from the

material.

Chapter 2: When World’s Collide

Chapter Outline

• The Expansion of Europe

• The Spanish in the Americas

• Northern Explorations and Encounters

Chapter 2 Key Terms

Directions: Use the textbook to define each key term.

Feudalism-

Renaissance-

Reconquista-

Treaty of Tordesillas-

Protestant Reformation-

Predestination-

Protestants-

Chapter 2 Focus Questions

Directions: Use the textbook to answer each focus question.

How did social change in Europe contribute to European expansion overseas?

What factors contributed to the defeat of the Aztecs and Incas by European forces?

What differences were there among Spanish, English, and French patterns of colonization?

Chapter 2 Primary Source Analysis

Directions: Examine the image titled The Cruelties Used by the Spaniards on the Indians, from

a 1599 English edition of The Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de Las Casas. Answer the

question below the image.

Who was Bartolome de Las Cases? Why did he write about the treatment of the Indians at the

hands of the Spaniards? Was his analysis correct? Explain your answer. What was the primary

cause of the drastic reduction in native populations?

Chapter 3: Planting Colonies in North America

Chapter Outline

• Spain and its Competitors in North America

• England in the Chesapeake

• The New England Colonies

• The Proprietary Colonies

Chapter 3 Key Terms


Coureurs de bois-

Beaver Wars-

Virginia Company-

House of Burgesses-

Indentured servants-

Puritans-

Pilgrims-

Separatists-

Mayflower Compact-

Massachusetts Bay Company-

Great Migration-

Proprietary colony-

Quakers-

Frame of Government-

Pequot War-

King Philip’s War-

Covenant Chain-

Bacon’s Rebellion-

Culpeper’s Rebellion-

King William’s War-


Directions: Use the textbook to answer each focus question.

How did conditions in New Spain and New France differ from Virginia and New England?

How did tobacco change the nature of English colonization in Virginia?

What were the social and political values of Puritanism and how did religious dissent shape the

history of the New England colonies?

How many European nations had established colonies on the Atlantic coast by the middle of the

seventeenth century?

What role did the crown play in the founding of English colonies after 1660?

Examine the processes underlying the founding of the Restoration Colonies. How has the

political landscape changed since 1639?

What led to violent conflict between Indians and colonists?


Directions: Examine the image below of the earliest known view of New Amsterdam, published

in 1651. Fort New Amsterdam, New York, 1651. Engraving. Collection of The New York

Historical Society. Answer the question below the image.

Explain why King Charles II coveted the lucrative Dutch colony of New Netherland? Why was

New Netherland renamed to New York?

Chapter 4: Slavery and Empire

Chapter Outline

• The Beginnings of African Slavery

• The African Slave Trade

• The Development of North American Slave Societies

• African to African American

• Slavery and Empire

• Slavery and Freedom

Chapter 4 Key Terms


Seven Year’s War-

Middle Passage-

Slave Codes-

Great Awakening-

Mercantilism-

Queen Anne’s War-

King George’s War-

Enumerated goods-


How did the modern system of slavery develop?

What is the history of the slave trade and the Middle Passage?

How and why were the people of Africa enslaved and brought to America?

How did slavery in the North differ from slavery in the South?

How did African slaves attempt to preserve African culture in America?

How did slavery fuel the economic development of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth

centuries?

How did slavery shape southern colonial society?


After reading both excerpts, answer the questions that follow. Excerpt from Olaudah Equiano, a

captured African from the region of Nigeria, describes the Middle Passage:

The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship,

which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us. This

pronounced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a

variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died-

thus falling victims to the improvident avarice, as I may call it, for their purchasers.

Excerpt from Alexander Falconbridge, a surgeon on several slave ships, provides a description of

the Middle Passage.

The hardships and inconveniences suffered by the Negroes during the passage are

scarcely to be enumerated or conceived. They are far more violently affected by the

seasickness than the Europeans. It frequently terminates in death, especially among the

women. But the exclusion of the fresh air is among the most intolerable.

Are the perspectives from a captured slave and a surgeon on a slave ship similar or different?

Please explain. Why were slaves stowed so close together?

Chapter 5: The Cultures of Colonial North America

Chapter Outline

• North American Regions

• Diverging Social and Political Patterns

• The Cultural Transformation of British North America

Chapter 5 Key Terms


Toleration Act-

Engages-

Encomienda-

Enlightenment-

Almanac-

Half-Way Covenant-

Congregationalists-

Calvinist theology of predestination-

Great Awakening-

New Lights-

Old Lights-


How did Indian Americas adapt to the new conditions created by colonization?

How did the movement into the backcountry affect the relations among colonists, Indians, and

English authorities?

How did the structure of colonial society differ from European social structure?

What were the effects of the Great Awakening on the subsequent history of the British colonies?


In this excerpt, Benjamin Franklin notes the distribution of age, marriage, and births between the

Americans and the British.

Marriages in America are more general, and more generally early, than in Europe. And

if it is reckoned there, that there is but one Marriage per Annum among 100 Persons, perhaps

we may here reckon two; and if in Europe they have but 4 Births to a Marriage…we may have

reckon 8, of which if one half grow up, and our Marriages are made, reckoning with another at

20 Years of Age, our People must at least be doubled every 20 years.

What factors would cause Benjamin Franklin to be concerned with the British Colonial

population? Explain.

Chapter 6: From Empire to Independence

Chapter Outline:

• The Seven Years’ War in America

• The Imperial Crisis in British North America

• Save Your Money and Save Your Country

• From Resistance to Rebellion

• Deciding for Independence

Key Terms:

Benjamin Franklin’s Plan of Union-

French and Indian War –

Treaty of Paris (1763)-

Royal Proclamation of 1763-

Whigs-

Republicanism-

Sugar Act-

Stamp Act-

Virtual Representation-

Actual Representation-

Nonimportation movement-

Declaratory Act-

Townshend Revenue Acts-

Sons of Liberty-

Boston Massacre-

Tea Act of 1773-

Boston Tea Party-

Coercive Acts-

Quartering Acts-

Quebec Act-

Committees of Correspondence-

First Continental Congress-

Committee of Safety-

Minutemen-

Declaration of Independence-

Focus Questions:

1. What were the most important weaknesses of the British Empire in North America at the

outset of the Seven Years’ War?

2. What factors led to the growth of American nationalism in the 1760s?

3. How did political and economic problems in Britain contribute to unrest in the colonies?

4. What steps did Britain take to punish Massachusetts for the colonists’ acts of resistance?

5. Who made up the Second Continental Congress and why was it formed?

6. How could this image, intended to ridicule and shame the American patriots, have been

embraced and celebrated by them?

Chapter 7: The American Revolution 1776- 1786

Chapter Outline

• The War for Independence

• The United States in Congress Assembled

• Revolutionary Politics in the States

Key Terms:

Valley Forge –

Patriots –

Continental Army-

Loyalists-

Tories-

United States Constitution-

Articles of Confederation-

Continental Congress-

Land Ordinance of 1785-

Northwest Ordinance of 1787-

Bill of Rights-

Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom-

Constitutional Convention-

Focus Questions:

1. What strategies and tactics did American forces employ in the war for independence?

2. What concerns were reflected in the terms of the Articles of Confederation?

3. How did political debate in America change in the years after 1774?

4. In what ways does Trumbull create a heroic painting by the arrangements of his subjects?

Chapter 8: The New Nation

Chapter Outline:

• The Crisis of the 1780s

• The New Constitution

• The First Administration

• Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans

• The Rising Glory of America

Key Terms:

Shays’ Rebellion-

Nationalists-

Annapolis Convention-

Virginia Plan-

New Jersey Plan-

Great Compromise-

Federalists-

Anti-Federalists-

Judiciary Act of 1789-

Judicial Review-

Tariff of 1789-

Intercourse Act-

Treaty of Greenville-

Jay’s Treaty-

Federalism-

Republicans-

XYZ Affair-

Quasi-War (with France)-

Alien and Sedition Acts-

State’s rights-

Suffrage-

Focus Questions:

1. What were the tensions and conflicts between local and national authorities in the

decades after the American Revolution?

2. How did Americans differ in their views on the new Constitution, and how were those

differences reelected in the struggle to achieve ratification?

3. Why did some regions support the Constitution and others did not?

4. What were the essential structures of national government?

5. Why did tensions between Indians and settlers increase during this period?

6. How did American political parties first begin?

7. What were the first stirrings of an authentic American national culture?

8. While examining the Columbian Tragedy, why would Americans purchase this broadside

and display it in their homes?

DBQ Question: Why did political parties develop in the United States?

Document 1: Hamilton Criticizes His Opponents (1792)

It was not until the last session of Congress that I became totally convinced of the following

truth: that Mr. Madison and Mr. Jefferson are at the head of

a party that is hostile to me, and are acting on views that are, in my opinion, harmful to the

principles of good government and dangerous to the union,

peace and happiness of the country. In the question concerning the Bank of the United States,

Jefferson not only gave his opinion in writing that it was unconstitutional, but he did it in

a style and manner which was very insulting to me.

In respect to foreign politics, the views of these men are in my judgment equally dangerous.

They have a womanish attachment to France, and a womanish resentment towards Great Britain.

On the whole, the only enemy which the Republic has to fear is the effects of political parties. It

will prevent the government from achieving its goals and create disorder so that all regular and

orderly

people will wish for a change, and the ones that have created the disorder will take advantage of

this and seize power for themselves.

Document 2: Jefferson on Parties (1797)

You may have found on your return to America a higher style of political difference than when

you left here. I fear this is inseparable from the individual

differences of the human mind and that degree of freedom which allows for unlimited

expression. Political arguments are surely a lesser evil than the

tack of thought found under tyranny, but it is still a great evil. It would be as worthy the effort of

the patriot as the philosopher to avoid its influence, if

possible.

Document 3: Election Advertisement

Document 4: The Sedition Act (1798)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in

Congress assembled that if any person shall write, print,

speak, or publish any false, injurious or harmful writings against the government of the United

States, or either House of Congress, or the President of the

United States, with intent to attack the good name of the government, Congress, the President, or

to bring them into disfavor or to bring about the

hatred of the good people of the United States or to stir up public disorder or rebellion within the

United States. . . then such a person when convicted

before any court of the United States shall be punished by a fine not more than two thousand

dollars, and imprisonment not more than two years.

Document 5: The Death of Alexander Hamilton (1804)

Document 6: A Letter to Massachusetts Voters (1808)

To all the voters of Massachusetts no matter of what political party they may be.

Here are short and plain reasons which all people are requested to weigh before they give their

votes next Monday for Governor and Senators:

We have two parties in the state. All free governments have had and will continue to have them.

Perhaps neither of them is perfectly right always, and

yet, it is likely that one is more right than the other. We shall not tell you which you are to favor;

but we shall honestly state the difference in the opinions of these parties, and you must decide for

yourselves. Remember; however; that your decision in this election decides your future fate.

First, there is a party to which Mr. Jefferson belongs, whose policies have had and appear still to

have a tendency to drive you into an unnecessary war

with Britain and bring you under the control of France. Second, there is a peace party among

whom are found Colonel Pickering,

Mr. Josiah Quincy, son of the old Patriot of 1775... as well as many other members of Congress

and thousands of the most wise and Patriotic citizens—

Mr. Gore, the candidate for governor is of this party. These men fear a war with Great Britain,

because it would be a disaster; and they oppose it, because it is unnecessary.

Document 7: Political Cartoon—The Gerrymander (1812)

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