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APUSH Summer Assignment

*Click here for the 2016-2017 Summer Assignment Handout (from meeting on 6/8)

First,  ski-jump girl (why am I showing this to you?)

1. Ch. 1 Textbook Assignment - due 8/21

Read "Ch. 1 - Colliding Worlds: 1450-1600" from America's History - 8th ed. 

A. As you read, answer each of the "orange box" questions that are found on the margins of the page. For example: the first one can be found on p. 8 (Identifying Causes: What factors allowed for the development of empires in central Mexico and the Andes?). 

B. Identify/Define the essential information about the "Terms to Know" on p. 37.

C. After reading the chapter, answer the five "Review Questions" at the end of the chapter on p. 37.

D. After reading the chapter, answer the "Big Idea Question" found on p. 6: How did the political, economic, and religious systems of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans compare, and how did things change as a result of contacts among them?

2. Key Concept Assignment - due 8/21

Key Concepts Period 1: 1491 – 1607: 

1.1 Prior to the arrival of Europeans, native peoples in North America developed diverse social, political, and economic structures. 

1.2 European overseas expansion resulted in the Columbian Exchange. 
1.3 Contacts among Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans challenged the worldviews of each group. 

Using your textbook and these "APUSH Key Concept 1 Review Videos" describe/explain each of the following terms/concepts

• Maize
• The impact of climate, resources, and landscape on the development of the following Native American societies (how did geography/environment impact the characteristics of each native society/culture).
• Mississippi Valley
• Eastern Woodlands
• Great Lakes
• Great Plans and Rockies
• Arid Southwest
• Pacific Coast
• Columbian Exchange
• Encomienda System
• Reasons/Motivations for European exploration
• Impacts of contact on Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans 

3. Crash Course Assignment - due 8/26 

Watch Crash Course ep. #1

• Write a one page review explaining the major concepts covered in the video. 

4.  "1491" Reading Questions - due 8/26

Read “1491” - click here for a link to the article 

Answer the following questions as you read. (2-4 sentences each) 

1. What was the author taught about Indians and what do Erickson and Balee think about this perception of Indian life? 

2. What is the “pristine myth”?

3. What effect did European disease have on coastal New England prior to the arrival of the Mayflower pilgrims?

4. Why did Samuel de Champlain and Sir Fernando Gorge abandon attempts to start colonies in current day Cape Cod, MA and southern ME from 1605-1607?

5. When was the first scholarly estimate of the pre-Columbian Native American population made and what was the estimate?

6. What was the new estimate of the pre-Columbian Native population provided by Henrey Dobyns? How did this compare to the population of Europe at the time? What did Dobyns study the effects of to get to his new estimate?

7. What does Dobyns’ estimate as the overall effect of European diseases on Natives during the first 130 years of colonization?

8. What was the major difference in the Mississippi Valley from when it was visited by Hernando de Soto in 1539 and when is was visited again by Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle in1682?

9. How was de Soto’s expedition in the 1500s likely responsible for this change?

10. What details does Timothy K. Perttula provide of the depopulation of the Caddoan people?

11. What were the major reasons that disease was particularly devastating to Native Americans at the time?

12. For what reasons does Lenore Stiffarm argue that “low counters” want to hold on to the low estimates of Native populations?

13. How do the “low counters” criticize the conclusions of the “high counters”?

14. What does Elizabth Fenn believe to be the most consequential finding that gets lost in the debate over population?

15. In the 19^th century who were to Cahokian mounds attributed to?

16. What are some reasons that American Neolithic development lagged behind that of Eurasia? In what ways were American civilizations less and more advanced?

17. What is the connection between Maize and African slavery?

18. For what reasons did Native American cities impress early European explorers and colonists?

19. How does James Wilson compare pre-Columbian Indian America with Europe at the same time?

20. How did Native Americans view European explorers and colonists?

21. In what ways did Native American societies exploit their environment and “change the land.”

22. What effect did Native American depopulation have on the environment of North America?

23. What does the author mean when he says “Far from destroying pristine wilderness, European settlers bloodily created it.”?

A Few Other Details

• All assignments must be turned in via eBackpack. By the time the assignments are due, your new classes will be loaded into eBackpack.
• Students should expect an assessment on the first day of class relating to these assignments.
• Late assignments will receive grades no higher than a 70%
• Late assignments will no longer be accepted as of the first day of school.

Agenda for 6/3

Hello Everyone,

I'm not here today. You have class to continue work on your Final Projects, which are due on Monday, 6/13. 

See you on Tuesday!

Mr. Parise