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• The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the textbook we will be using, as well as to complete the 1st of 9 historical periods, or units, over the summer, thereby saving us time during the school year.
• These assignments are due at the beginning of class on the first day of school.
• All portions must be handwritten .
• You will be tested on the information at the beginning of the second week of school.

ALL students taking APUSH in the 2022-23 school year are required to complete this assignment. Incomplete or late assignments will NOT be accepted and will receive a ZERO .

• Take complete notes in whatever format works best for you.
• Write complete definitions for each vocabulary term at the end of the chapter. There are 17 terms. These can be embedded in your notes, but please highlight them. (See examples below).

AP standard – must include definition AND significance

Gospel of Wealth : an essay written by champion of the steel industry, Andrew Carnegie, in 1901; Carnegie advocated philanthropy from the wealthy over charity and espoused that the wealthy were the trustees of society and that they alone knew how to improve the social conditions of the time.

Significance : the book put the responsibility of “giving back to the community” on the shoulders of the wealthy; some saw it as an effort to justify the great wealth ruthlessly accumulated by the “robber barons” of the Gilded Age.

NOT AP standard

Gospel of Wealth : book by Carnegie; rich shouldn’t give charity but should teach people how to act. Significance: more public facilities/”gifts” (i.e. Carnegie Library)

• Answer the seven questions below. These questions correspond to the seven Learning Objectives for Period 1 (1491-1607) of APUSH, as determined by the College Board.

Avoid doing everything at the last minute, aka the week before school starts. Spread the work out over the course of the summer and then review the week before school. By doing so, you will retain the material more effectively and set yourself up for success during the coming school year.

Thank you for committing yourself to taking APUSH. I hope that you will find the class to be both challenging and rewarding. If you have any questions regarding this work or the course, please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected] .

PERIOD 1 (1491-1607) LEARNING OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

Learning Objectives define what you should be able to do with content knowledge in order to move toward a lasting understanding of the material.

This assignment must be handwritten . Please respond using complete sentences, and write in short paragraph format, with a minimum of 5 sentences per response.

• Explain the context for the European encounters in the Americas from 1491-1607. ( Context is the political, social, cultural, and economic environment related to historical moments, events, and trends. Context is the back-story that helps us understand what an individual, a group, or documents are trying to say, or what happens next. )
• Explain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America. Provide two specific examples from two different regions.
• Explain the causes of exploration and conquest of the New World by various European nations. (Think the “Three Gs”, but expand on this idea).
• Define the Columbian Exchange and explain its effects on Europe and the Americas during the period after 1492. Include at least two specific examples of effects on both the Old World (Europe) and the New World (the Americas).
• Explain how the growth of the Spanish Empire in North America shaped the development of social and economic structures over time. Provide at least two specific examples of systems.
• Explain how and why European and Native American perspectives of others developed and changed in the period. Consider religion, culture, as well as racial classifications and justifications.
• Explain the effects of the development of transatlantic voyages from 1491-1607. Provide two specific examples.

2024 APUSH Summer Reading and Assignment

Mr. buglione: [email protected], mr. bellinger: [email protected], ap us history course and exam guide, summer assignment task sheet.

Chapter 1- New World Beginnings

Chapter 2 - the planting of english america, chapter 3 - settling the northern colonies, chapter 4 - american life in the seventeenth century, chapter 5 - colonial society on the even of revolution.

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AP US History - Summer Assignment

Welcome to the 2024 AP US History Course!  Your task is Period 1 The Pre-Columbian Era.  You will need to access YouTube (possibly from a non-DCPS computer) and follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhHecE9st7U  

While watching the video on Period 1 you will want to take notes paying special attention to various ways Native American populations adapted to their environments and made civilization in the Americas possible.    

You will need to familiarize yourself with the various groups that settled in North, South, and Central Americas, their environmental adaptations, in addition to the reasons for European exploration: what made it possible, their interactions with the natives, and how that interaction changed life not only for the Natives but also for the Europeans.  

Excitedly waiting for to see you all in the Fall!  

Mr. Rodgers  

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SUMMER READING  

Read the book and take notes on each chapter.

The notes will be collected on the first day of class. An in class project will be assigned.

Bring the book and your notes to class on the first day of school.

Author Biography

Nathaniel Philbrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he attended Linden Elementary School and Taylor Allderdice High School.  He earned a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow. He was Brown University’s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978, the same year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, RI. After working as an editor at  Sailing World  magazine, he wrote and edited several books about sailing, including  The Passionate Sailor, Second Wind , and  Yachting: A Parody .

In 1986, Philbrick moved to Nantucket with his wife Melissa and their two children.  In 1994, he published his first book about the island’s history,  Away Off Shore , followed in 1998 by a study of the Nantucket’s native legacy,  Abram’s Eyes . He was the founding director of Nantucket’s Egan Maritime Institute and is still a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association.

In 2000, Philbrick published the  New York Times  bestseller,  In the Heart of the Sea,  which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. The book was the basis of the 2015 movie of the same title directed by Ron Howard.  The book also inspired a 2001 Dateline special on NBC as well as the 2010 PBS American Experience film “Into the Deep” by Ric Burns.

His next book  Sea of Glory  was published in 2003 and won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize and the Albion-Monroe Award from the National Maritime Historical Society.

The  New York Times  bestseller  Mayflower  was a finalist for both the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in History and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, won the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction, and was named one the ten “Best Books of 2006” by the  New York Times Book Review .

In 2010, he published the  New York Times  bestseller  The Last Stand , which was named a New York Times Notable book, a 2010 Montana Book Award Honor Book, and a 2011 ALA Notable Book.  Philbrick was an on-camera consultant to the 2-hour PBS American Experience film “Custer’s Last Stand” by Stephen Ives.

In 2011 Philbrick’s  Why Read Moby-Dick?  was a finalist for the New England Society Book Award and was named to the 2012 Listen List for Outstanding Audiobook Narration from the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the ALA.  That year Penguin also published a new edition of his first work of history,  Away Off Shore .

In 2013 Philbrick published the  New York Times  bestseller,  Bunker Hill:  A City, a Siege, a Revolution , which was awarded both the 2013 New England Book Award for Non-Fiction and the 2014 New England Society Book Award as well as the 2014 Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars.

In 2016, he published the  New York Times  bestseller  Valiant Ambition:  George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution , winner of the 2017 George Washington Book prize, the James P. Hanlan Book Award, and the Harry M. Ward Book Prize.

In March 2018, Penguin published a new edition of his sailing memoir  Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage that Brought a Family Together , and in October 2018, Viking will publish his third book about the American Revolution,  In the Hurricane’s Eye:  The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown .

Philbrick has also received the Byrne Waterman Award from the Kendall Whaling Museum, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the USS Constitution Museum, the Nathaniel Bowditch Award from the American Merchant Marine Museum, the William Bradford Award from the Pilgrim Society, the Boston History Award from the Bostonian Society, the Cushing Award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award from the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, the America and Sea Award from Mystic Seaport, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Walter Cronkite Award from Sail Martha’s Vineyard, the Harris Collection Literary Award from the Brown University Library, the Jennie F. McLauthlen Award from the Kingston Public Library, and the Award of Distinction from the National Maritime Alliance.  He has received honorary doctorates from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and Roger Williams University.

Philbrick’s writing has appeared in  Vanity Fair ,  The   New York Times Book Review ,  The Wall Street Journal , the  Los Angeles Times , and  The Boston Globe . He has appeared on the Today Show, the Morning Show, Dateline, PBS’s American Experience, C-SPAN, and NPR. He and his wife Melissa still live on Nantucket.

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