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    AP US History Chapter 2 Identifications 1.) English Protestant Reformation: took place in 1530’s when King Henry VII broke with the Roman Catholic Church. 2.) “Sea Dogs”: English buccaneers who sought to promote the twin goals of Protestantism and plunder by seizing Spanish treasure ships and raiding Spanish settlements. 3.) Francis Drake: famous “sea dog” who returned in 1580 with his ship full of Spanish booty and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth on the deck of his ship. 4.) Sir

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    There are several archaeological perspectives that can help explain the “Jamestown experience” between 1607 and 1700. The archaeological explanatory approaches: processual‚ post-processual‚ Marxism‚ and indigenous traditions‚ can all be applied to archaeological data to explain the experience between Colonial Settlers and Native populations in the Chesapeake Bay area. Processual archaeology uses a positivist approach when dealing with archaeological data‚ post-processual rejects a positivist approach

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    Granada Hills Charter High School  A.P. United States History – 2010 Summer Assignment   DUE: Day 1 of Fall 2010 semester    Instructors:   Mr. Klevs  cklevs@ghchs.com    Ms. Byars kbyars@ghchs.com      1. Students need to read book #1 Patriots: The Men who started the American Revolution by A.J.  Langguth [ISBN‐10: 0671675621] by August 17‚ 2010.  Students need to read book #2 K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita  Khrushchev‚ America’s Most Unlikely Tourist by Peter Carlson [ISBN‐10: 1586484974] by January 

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    Hailey Phay US History- 1st hour September 21‚ 2012 Bad Beginning to a Great Country On May 14‚ 1607‚ 110 settlers from England set out to make new lives for themselves. Men from all walks of life‚ most of them were poor men ages 17-35. Little did they know that 70 of the settlers would be dead in a year. These settlers died because of three main reasons: the environment that they placed their town‚ the social relations they had‚ and finally the skill set that was brought over from England

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    1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? Howard Zinn’s main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States is to give history in an un-biased manner. For example‚ he says that he will not glorify any movement and denounce any ‘bad guy’ in history; he will give information as it should be given. Fairly. 2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? His thesis for the first eleven pages is to describe past events as they happened

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    Jamestown and Plymouth: Compare and Contrast Traveling aboard the Susan Constant‚ Godspeed and Discovery‚ 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place they named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later‚ 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies‚ English settlement in North America was born. LOCATION OF THE SETTLEMENTS Jamestown offered anchorage

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    them‚ and the tedious work building a town from the ground up. The few that did survive relied heavily on the trade with natives‚ their English goods for food in return. The native tribe neighboring Jamestown was Powhatan and his tribe. Captain John Smith would organize trade with Powhatan and his tribe‚ and later would betray them by organizing raids on their food supply. After being captured by Powhatan’s tribe‚ the chief’s daughter Pocahontas saved Smith by laying her head beside his as he was about

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    In 1492‚ Christopher Columbus arrived in America with many other colonists. The colonists and him decide to roam the land and discover something. They discover other people living on the land before them known as Native Americans. At first things were well between the Europeans and the Native Americans‚ but the Europeans had such prejudice towards the Indians. This then led to conflict‚ mistrust‚ and violence. Based on the initial encounters between Native Americans and Europeans being negative‚

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    spring of 1610‚ Lord De La Warr was deemed the new governor. De La Warr hastily declared war against local Indians‚ consequently starting the first Anglo-Powhatan conflict the colony had faced. Although a short period of peace ensued following the first war’s agreement in 1614‚ the settlers and Indians fought again three decades later. The Powhatan Indians experienced their second defeat against the English colonists. As The American Pageant explains‚ the Indians unfortunately fell victim to “disease

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    military like regime and “Irish tactics” led to conflict between the two groups. Powhatan Confederacy - settlement’s impact on this tribe- Powhatan Confederacy= loose confederation of tribes. A series of Indian attacks in 1622 leads to full on war. A peace treaty signed in 1646 banished the Chesapeake Indians from the area. By the time of the treaty the Powhatans were diseased‚ disorganized‚ and disposable. The Powhatan eventually became extinct. Purposes of colonial settlement- originally colonial

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