Unit plan ap united States History

Early inhabitants of the Americas

American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley

American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact

First European contacts with American Indians

Spain’s empire in North America

French colonization of Canada

English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South

From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region

Religious diversity in the American colonies

Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt

Population growth and immigration

Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports

The eighteenth-century backcountry

Growth of plantation economies and slave societies

The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening

Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America
Essential Questions

1. 
   What factors led to the Age of Exploration?
   
2. 
   Who are the Native Americans?
   
3. 
   What motivated the Conquistadores
   
4. 
   What was the political, and social order of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies?
   
5. 
   How do New France and New Spain compare economically, socially and religiously?
   
6. 
   In what ways did Virginia transform from the way it was originally conceived?
   
7. 
   In what ways were the New England colonies different than all others in the Americas?
   
8. 
   What traits did all of the American colonies have in common?
   

1. 
   The Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery (1493)
   
2. 
   Hernan Cortes, “Second Letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor,” (1520)
   
3. 
   Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico (1519)
   
4. 
   Hernando de Soto Encounters the Indians of the Southeast (1539-1542)
   
5. 
   Francisco Coronado Explores the American Southwest (1541)
   
6. 
   Don Juan de Onate Conquers New Mexico (1599)
   
7. 
   Juan Gines de Sepulveda Belittles the Indians (1547)
   
8. 
   Bartolome de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552)
   
9. 
   The New Law of the Indies (1542)
   
10. 
    Olauda Equiano, “A Slave is Taken to Barbados”
    
11. 
    A Contract for Indentured Service (1635)
    
12. 
    John Cotton Describes New England’s “Theocracy” (1636)
    
13. 
    The Baconite Grievances (1677)
    
14. 
    Mayflower Compact (1620)
    
15. 
    Model of Christian Charity (1630)
    
16. 
    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
    
17. 
    The Blue Laws of Connecticut (1672)
    
18. 
    The Salem Withcraft Hysteria (1692)
    
19. 
    The Epochal Zenger Trial (1735)
    
20. 
    George Whitefield Fascinates Franklin (1739)
    
21. 
    The Stono River Rebellion (1739)
    

Crusades

Portuguese Exploration

Caravel

Prince Henry the Navigator

Vasco de Gama

The Reconquista

Christopher Columbus

Theories of Indian Migration

Vinland

South American Indians

Maize

Mayas

Pueblo

Mound Builders

Mississippian Cultures

Iroquois
APUSH 3 (1): Spanish Conquest of the Americas*

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Pedro Alvares Cabral

Conquistadores

“Gold, Glory, God”

Small Pox

Vasco Nunez Balboa

Juan Ponce de Leon

Hernan Cortes

Ferdinand Magellan

Francisco Pizarro

Hernando de Soto

Francisco Coronado

Don Juan de Onate

King of Spain

Ferdinand/Isabella (1492 – 1516)

Charles V (1516 – 1556)

Philip II (1556 – 1598)

Council of the Indies

Audiencia/Viceroy

Governors/Captains – General

Intendants
Social Hierarchy

Peninsulares

Creoles

Mestizos/Mulattos

Giovanni de Verrazzano

Jacques Cartier

Samuel de Champlain

Furs, timber, fish

French Mercantilism

Jesuits/Franciscans

Junipero Serra

Missions/Presidios

Pueblo Revolt (1680)

Black Legend

APUSH 6 (1): The Virginia Colony*

AIM: In what ways did Virginia transform from the way it was originally conceived?

Elizabeth I

Roanoke

Sir Walter Raleigh

James I

Joint-Stock Company

Chesapeake Bay

John Smith

Powhatan Confederacy

Pocahontas

John Rolfe

Tobacco

Shipwright System

Virginia House of Burgesses

Bacon’s Rebellion

African slavery - Slave Codes
APUSH 7 (1): The New England Colonies*

AIM: In what ways were the New England colonies different than all others in the Americas?

Protestant Reformation

Henry VIII

Anglican Church

John Calvin

Puritans

Mayflower Compact (1620)

Governor Bradford

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Jonathan Winthrop - Model of Christian Charity (City Upon a Hill)

Congregational Church - New England Town Meetings

Harvard University

Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson

Roger Williams

Thomas Hooker

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Blue Laws

Old-Deluder Law

King Philip’s War

Dominion of New England

Half-Way Covenant

Salem Witchcraft Trials

Scarlet Letter/Crucible

First Great Awakening

George Whitefield

Jonathan Edwards – “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

DBQ: Puritans

DBQ: Puritans

Lord Baltimore

Maryland Act of Tolerations

British West Indies

Carolinas

Stono Rebellion

Georgia

James Oglethorpe

New Amsterdam

Peter Stuyvesant

The Trial of John Peter Zenger (1735)

New Sweden

William Penn

New Jersey

Navigation Acts

Columbian Exchange
APUSH 11 (1)

Test 1
APUSH 12 (1)

FRQ 1

Homework
APUSH 1 (1): The Beginning of the Age of Exploration
Please read textbook pages 2 – 24 and answer the questions, or complete the tasks below in your notebook.

1. 
   In what ways were the 13 English colonies both homogeneous and diverse?
   
2. 
   In what ways did the French and Indian War strain the relationship between Britain and the American colonists?
   
3. 
   Describe two theories on the origin of humans in the Americas.
   
4. 
   Approximately how many Indians populated the American continents prior to Columbus’ arrival?
   
5. 
   How did native societies in Central and South America develop differently from those in North America? Why?
   
6. 
   Who were the first Europeans to “discover” the New World? Why is this event not as celebrated as much as Columbus’ “discovery”?
   
7. 
   How did goods from Asia reach Europe before a water route to the Far East was discovered? What factors made these goods too expensive for most Europeans to buy?
   
8. 
   Who were Batholomeu Dias and Vasco de Gama? Why did their accomplishments cause Spain to begin sending explorers sailing westward?
   
9. 
   Where did Columbus believe he had arrived when he landed on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean?
   
10. 
    What was the Colombian Exchange? What types of things were exchanged?
    
11. 
    What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
    
12. 
    Identify the following: Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco Nunez Balboa, Francisco Pizarro, Hernando de Soto, Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernan Cortes and Junipero Serra.
    
13. 
    What were two possible results of the massive influx of New World silver into the European economy between 1550 and 1650?
    
14. 
    What was the encomienda system?
    
15. 
    Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?
    
16. 
    Describe the ways in which Reconquista led to Spain’s conquest of the Americas and the behavior of the attitudes of the conquistadores toward the Indians.
    
17. 
    Identify the following: John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazano, Robert de La Salle and Jacques Cartier.
    
18. 
    Describe Pope’s Rebellion (1680).
    

1. 
   How does Columbus describe the lands and people of “the Indies”?
   
2. 
   In what ways might his descriptions be self-serving?
   

1. What is Moctezuma’s primary message to Cortes in their first meeting?

2. How does Cortes’ cultural background seem to influence his treatment of the native people?
C. Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico (1519)

1. How does the Aztec account of Cortes’ and Moctezuma’s meeting differ factually or interpretively from Cortes’ letter to the Emperor?

D. Hernando de Soto Encounters the Indians of the Southeast (1539-1542)

1.Identify references made in this passage to Christianity and the Reconquista.
E. Francisco Coronado Explores the American Southeast (1541)

1. What “cows” is Coronado referring to in this report to the Spanish king? What “tents” does he describe?

1. Why, besides revenge, does Onate order an attack on the Pueblo Indians of the village of Acoma?

Please read the following primary source documents and answer the questions that follow each in your notebooks.

1. List five reasons that Sepulveda believed the Indians are inferior to Europeans.

2. Who was de Las Casas? What arguments does he make to refute Sepulveda?

1. What changes did the New Laws of the Indies impose on Spanish settlers in the Americas?

1. What differences does Equiano describe between slavery in Africa and slavery in Barbados?

Please read textbook pages 25 - 33 (stop where it says “Maryland: Catholic Haven”) and 66-76 (stop where it says “The New England Family,”) and answer the questions below in your notebook.

2. What was the Virginia Company? For what purpose was it originally formed? Why is its charter a significant document in American history? Where in North America was the Jamestown colony founded?

3. What was the Powhatan Confederacy? What was the relationship between these Indians and the Jamestown colonists? How was it different than the relationship the Spanish had with natives farther south?

4. Who was John Rolfe? What profitable venture did he introduce to Jamestown?

5. What is representative government? What early form of representative government existed in Virginia?

6. What kind of person typically emigrated from England to the colony at Jamestown?

7. What was an “indentured servant?” What was the “headright system?”

8. What was Bacon’s Rebellion? What were the factors that caused it? What were the results?

9. Why was their a dramatic increase in the number of African slaves transported to North America in the late 17^th century?

10. What were slave codes?

11. What was the Stono Rebellion?

12. What does the term “First Families of Virginia” (FFV) refer to?

1. 
   A Contract for Indentured Service (1635)
   

2. What did it require of the master?

3. What terms of the contract protected the servant from abuse?

2. 
   The Baconite Grievances (1677)
   

2. What is a tidewater grandee?

3. What did Bacon and his followers do before they attacked the Indians? How did Governor Berkley respond?

4. Why did Bacon and his followers believe that Governor Berkley refused to help them fight the Indians?

Please read textbook pages 43 - 56 (Stop reading at “Old Netherlanders at New Netherland”) as well as pages 76 – 83 and answer the questions below.

2. Who was John Calvin? What impact did his teachings have on the development of the American colonies?

3. Who were the Pilgrims (Separatists)? Why did they leave Europe for America?

4. What was the Mayflower Compact? In what ways was it similar to the Virginia House of Burgesses?

5. Who were William Bradford and John Winthrop?

6. What kind of government existed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

7. How was the Puritan colony of Rhode Island different from Massachusetts? What kinds of people settled and lived there?

8. Who founded Connecticut? What were the Fundamental Orders and Blue Laws?

9. How did Puritan relations with the Indians in New England differ from relations between the Indians and the French and Spanish? Identify King Philips War as part of your answer.

10. What was the New England Confederation?

11. Describe education in Puritan New England.

12. What new formula for Congregational Church membership was introduced in1662? Why?

13. What were the root-causes of the Salem Witch hysteria?

14. How did climate and geography affect economic life in the New England colonies?

1. 
   Framing the Mayflower Compact (1620)
   

1. 
   Who was the King of England when the pilgrims landed ashore in Cape Cod?
   
2. 
   Why did William Bradford believe the Mayflower Compact was necessary?
   
3. 
   What does the Compact claim is the mission of the pilgrims in North America?
   
4. 
   What are the signers of the Mayflower Compact agreeing to do?
   

2. 
   The Blue Laws of Connecticut (1672)
   

1. 
   What were Blue Laws?
   
2. 
   What is the punishment for each of the crimes listed?
   
3. 
   How did lawmakers in Connecticut justify identifying these behaviors as crimes?
   
4. 
   What do the Blue Laws say about the Puritan culture of colonial Connecticut?
   

3. 
   The Salem Withcraft Hysteria (1692)
   

1. 
   What did Martha Carrier stand accused of? Who accused her? What was the evidence?
   
2. 
   What motivation might the townspeople have had for accusing her?
   

1. 
   John Cotton Describes New England’s “Theocracy” (1636)
   

1. 
   What were the two ranks of citizen in New England?
   
2. 
   Who was allowed to vote on matters of colonial government in New England? What was the difference in the way that the two ranks of citizen voted?
   

2. 
   Jonathan Winthrop, Model of Christian Charity (1630)
   

1. 
   What does Winthrop mean when he says that Puritans must work together as one man?
   
2. 
   What does he mean when he says that they are a “city upon a hill?”
   

1. 
   George Whitefield Fascinates Franklin (1739)
   
   1. 
      Who was George Whitefield?
      
   2. 
      What effect did his preaching have on Benjamin Franklin and others living in Philadelphia?
      

2. 
   Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
   

1. 
   Who founded the colony of Maryland and why?
   
2. 
   What was the Maryland Act of Toleration? Why was it passed?
   
3. 
   Why were so many African slaves taken to the British colonies of the West Indies?
   
4. 
   What eventually became the primary export crop of the Carolinas?
   
5. 
   Why did James Oglethorpe want to found Georgia? Why did the English crown support his endeavor?
   
6. 
   Who founded New Amsterdam and why?
   
7. 
   Where was New Sweden located?
   
8. 
   How did New York receive its name?
   
9. 
   Why did William Penn found Pennsylvania? What kinds of policies did he enact there?
   

1. 
   The Epochal Zenger Trial (1735)
   

1. 
   Who was William Cosby?
   
2. 
   How did the outcome of the Zenger Trial change the way Americans define “libel”?
   
3. 
   In what ways does this case demonstrate Americans’ commitment to free press?
   

2. 
   The Stono River Rebellion (1739)
   
   1. 
      What was Spain’s policy regarding runaway slaves from the Southern English colonies? What was the result?
      

3. 
   Columbian Exchange Essay
   
   1. 
      What was the Columbia Exchange?
      
   2. 
      What types of things were introduced to each Continent for the first time?