AP UNITED STATES HISTORY‚ 2013-14 EUGENIA LANGAN‚ TEACHER SUMMER ASSIGNMENT This summer assignment is due on the first day of class of the 2013-14 school year. It will count as a test grade. Failure to turn the assignment in on time may result in your being booted out of AP.Your answers must be typed.Be sure to read the questions carefully and answer all subquestions within each question. 1. Read 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann‚ then write the answers
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the disease. This hurt the society as a whole. This affected the Indians badly as many people became sick and died‚ leading to starvation as one could not tend to the environment‚ stopping their ability to feed people. This weakened tribes (ex. Wampanoag) which led to alliances with the Europeans to receive protection from them. However before the European arrival‚ Indian tribes and nomadic peoples were thriving. New England (Nomadic People): Rise of agriculture and communities. Along the coasts
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Historical Terms Chapters 3-5 Calvinism: Who or what: A Protestant religious movement (inspired by Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation)‚ Calvinists followed John Calvin and his text Institutes of the Christian Religion that taught of an all powerful God and of sinful‚ weak and wicked humans. Where: Calvin started his teachings in Geneva‚ Switzerland yet his ideals spread across Western Europe and ultimately into America. When: 1530’s and beyond Historical Importance: Much of Calvin’s
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II. What was the English Settlement like at Jamestown? It survived thanks to John Smith and the production of tobacco A. What cause the struggle English settlers in America? The first settlement was almost destroyed by disease and starvation. 1. What did the English have to do to make colonization a business? English were funded by joint-stock companies‚ which once the people had several investors‚ they obtained a charter or official permit. King James I granted a charter to the Virginia
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Giovanni Da Verrazano Nusrat begum SOCIAL STUDIES 711 Giovanni Da Verrazano was one of the many European explorers that explored The New World‚ he explored northern eastern part of the present day U.S which are North Carolina‚ New York‚ Maine‚ Canada. Verrazano was also an Italian navigator who boarded voyages along with He was a Florentine explorer that served for King Francis I of France. Giovanni da Verrazano Giovanni travelled the seas as a pirate‚ or Privateer sailing for King Francis
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Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus is one of the most well known names in the western world because of what he accomplished during his lifetime. He was an explorer‚ a navigator‚ and a colonizer and‚ with his unrelenting determination‚ he would be the man to “discover” the New World. Although he thought that he found India and a better route to Asia rather than sailing around the southern tip of Africa‚ he had really stumbled upon the Americas. While he may have had the actual location
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APUSH [Sandler] Test #1 Study Guide Chapter 2 European Society European states were hierarchical Europe was characterized by feudalism (Continent was divided into hundreds of small territories‚ each ruled by a family of lords who claimed a disproportionate share of wealth and power) Most Europeans were peasant farmers Most Europeans were Christians united under the authority of the Roman Catholic Church -> Growing commerce stimulated the growth of markets and towns and by 1500
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Explained for them the easy conquest of the natives by the Spanish. D) Resulted from their lack of information about indigenous peoples of the Americas. 40. The root cause of King Philip’s War in New England stemmed from the anger of young Wampanoags at the colonists’: A) Refusal to sell them guns and supplies. B) Attacks on their land base and political sovereignty. C) Alliance with their hated enemies‚ the Narragansetts. D) Unwillingness to admit Native
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Chapter 2: The Invasion and Settlement of North America‚ 1550-1700 Rival Imperial Models: Spain‚ France and Holland The Spanish seized Mesoamerica and South America and converted many Indians to Catholicism. The Indians were forced to work as gold miners and farmers. The French and Dutch merchants created fur-trading colonies with North American natives. New Spain: Colonization and Conversion 1540s- Vasquez de Coronado discovered the Grand Canyon‚ the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest‚ and the Kansas
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CHAPTER 3 COLONIES TAKE ROOT 1587-1752 Section 1: The First English Settlements I. England Seeks Colonies -Like most of Europe in the age of exploration‚ England was a monarchy. However‚ in England‚ the power of the king or queen was limited by law and by a lawmaking body called Parliament. -Ever since the 1200s‚ English law had limited the king’s power. The king could set new taxes only with Parliament’s consent. Still‚ the king’s powers were much greater than those of
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