AP United States History (APUSH) Summer Assignments 2020

Mr. White Email: crwhite@k12.wv.us

Summer Google Classroom Code: oryc4tp Phone: (see Phone Contacts)

Welcome APUSH students!

Congratulations! You made the right decision to enroll in Advanced Placement United States History (aka APUSH).
Now, as far as summer work, there are six summer assignments you must complete. The purpose of this is to ensure that
we get as much time to review for the AP exam as possible. I would like 2 straight weeks of review in class to ensure the
highest level of success on the exam. These assignments will allow us to do that. All assignments are due on the first
day of school.

Assignments (Page 3): 3. Colonial Encounters and Differences

1. Native American Cultures a. Comparison Chart
a. Lecture Notes 4. Documents
b. Map Activity a. Spanish Colonies + Questions
2. Columbian Exchange Research b. French Colonies + Questions
a. Graphic Organizer entries 5. 13 Colonies Comparisons
a. Graphic Organizer and Notes
6. Text Reading/Notes

Recommended Books
Documenting United States History: Themes, Concepts, and Skills for the AP Course by Jason Stacy and
Stephen Heller (Available on Amazon in hardcover and Kindle format, great resource for primary sources and
strategies for the AP exam)

American Yawp (see Assignment #6 for the link and directions): This is a online textbook that provides a good
array of information and primary sources. It is not officially College Board certified, but those that have worked
on College Board tests as both question creators and evaluators have recommended this website. You will be
using this throughout the course of the year, including for Assignment #6. So, I would go ahead and save it on a
browser/cell phone.

APUSH Expectations and Materials

In AP U.S. History (sometimes abbreviated as APUSH), we will be reviewing a lot of material from the
colonization of America to the modern era. This course will require a lot of note-taking, textbook reading,
analysis and review, and examinations. This is taught like a college course deliberately. You should
expect to be taking hand-written notes consistently with note checks happening on a regular, if not weekly,
basis. In addition, you will have multiple quizzes and tests throughout the course to assess content knowledge.
You will also have weekly reading assignments to complete outside of class which will also be used in
assessments and note-checked as well. This will include the assigned textbook and primary sources assigned by
the teacher. We are working on a limited schedule with many conflicts that come up during the course of the
year (assemblies, extracurricular activities, snow days, closures, etc.) I will send you work from time to time on
Google Classroom. So it is imperative that you use and check Google Classroom and LIveGrades on a regular
basis as well as keep up on assigned readings.

I recommend you have notebooks, paper, highlighters, and other materials ready to take notes at the beginning
of the school year. Also, check the College Board website for updated information and practice tests throughout
the summer. We will be doing a Practice Test on the first week of the school year to set up a base of data to
work from throughout the course of the year. We will also be getting set up on AP Classroom which will be
required for all students in order to do review checks.
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Google Classroom: CODE- oryc4tp
During the summer, we will begin instruction on some of the earliest time periods in American history. The
reason for that is that according to the Course Layout along with the College Board generation for the test
material, Periods 1 and 2 represent the least amount of information that will be assessed on their test.
Therefore, the summer assignment and the AP US HISTORY Summer Google Classroom will be used as a way
to begin the process of learning material for these two periods of information. This will allow us to start
working and practicing towards AP levels of writing and address the Early American Colonial History content
early enough that we can efficiently transition from there to content that will have a greater impact on the
College Board test.

Once the school year begins and class rosters have been finalized, we will begin the process of transitioning
everyone to their class-specific Google Classroom.

Phone Contacts
I will provide a phone number on Google Classroom to anyone who needs to get in contact with me during the
summer for an emergency question relating to the Summer Assignment. If it can be handed in a message on
Google Classroom, I ask that you please use that first. I am leaving a space below for you to write down the
number and message attached to it on Google Classroom.

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APUSH Course Layout
The course is set in 9 Periods by the College Board in order to facilitate an easier filing and classification of
content placement. So be sure to know and memorize what each period number stands for.

Perio
d Dates Topics
1
1491-1607 Pre-Columbian Societies, Contact/Columbia Exchange, Spanish Conquest
2 Colonial Beginnings, French, Dutch, and English settlement, Colonial North America:
1607-1754 social, economic, political, Resistance, Enlightenment & Great Awakening
3
1754-1800 Revolution, Critical Period, Early Republic
4 Jeffersonian Democracy, War of 1812, Transformations: Market Revolution,
1800-1848 2nd Great Awakening
5
1844-1877 Manifest Destiny, Civil War, Reconstruction
6 Gilded Age
1865-1898
7 Imperialism; Progressivism; World War I; 1920s; Great Depression and New Deal
1890-1945 World War II
8
1945-1980 Cold War; 1950s; 1960s: Vietnam, Civil Rights; 1970s; 1980s
9 1980- Return to Conservatism; Gulf War; Clinton; Immigration; 9/11; Bush Presidency
present Obama Presidency

Assignment #1: Native American Culture

Period 1 of the APUSH course outline focuses on the period from 1491 (a generic, symbolic year for life in America pre-
European contact) to 1607 (the establishment of the Jamestown Colony), so the first thing we need to do is focus on life
before Columbus “found” America. The video below will cover this concept quite well. I have attached a graphic
organizer for you to follow along and take notes. After the video, you’ll get to do a little coloring! =) Follow the directions
on the map activity to help aid your understanding of pre-Columbian America.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_Q50JDeLo

Assignment #2: Columbian Exchange Research

For this assignment, you will be left to do some very general look into the permanent system of contact and trade between
the Old and New Worlds that was established by Columbus’ voyages known as the Columbian Exchange. One of the
easiest and most general places to gather information on the Columbian Exchange is the Columbian Exchange Wikipedia
page. (Yes, a teacher is telling you to use Wikipedia. Not a good source to quote, but it is good for general information).

Fill out the chart I have provided for you to identify the effects of the Columbian Exchange on North America & Europe.

Optional, Supplemental Videos:

-Atlantic Slave Trade Effects on Africa (Ted Talks) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXC4Q_4JVg

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Assignment #3: Colonial Encounters and Differences
A common writing question on the APUSH exam’s writing section involves comparing the colonies of different countries,
so it is good to be familiar with this concept of comparison and contrast early on in our journey. You will need to watch
videos on the 4 major colonizing countries (Spain, France, the Netherlands, and England) and fill out the corresponding
Graphic organizer that nicely displays them all side-by-side.

Spanish Colonization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhWMMEKNxdQ

French Colonization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqUSY59Kilk
Dutch Colonization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH1uGY16WJM
English Colonization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecFVogu0H2w

Optional, Supplemental Video:

Countries’ differences in relationships between Natives - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdV98rKV5gM

Assignment #4: Readings and Questions

I have selected 2 readings for your leisure. One is primary, and the other is secondary. You will be exposed to a
large amount of documents throughout the next academic year in class and during the exam. You will need to
get used to analyzing sources, so I have you taking a look at a view on the Spanish Colonies through a primary
source and a view on the Dutch Colonies through a secondary source.

Read each source and answer the corresponding questions that follow.

Assignment #5: 13 Colonies Comparisons

Another frequent writing question deals with the unique social, economic, and geographical identities of the 13 colonies
by splitting them into 3 distinct regions – North, Middle, and South. This lecture and graphic organizer will help identify
many of these differences to help you start to identify these differences which will play a huge role in the nation’s history
through the Civil War.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_THLW5hh8Y

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Assignment #6: Assigned Reading, Writing, and Notes
We will be doing a lot of note taking and text analysis during the course of the year as well. The expectation is
that you will read the assigned texts outside of class and be prepared to take notes during class for the periods
that we cover.

While you will not have your physical textbooks until the Fall Semester, you will be able to access your online
textbooks for the summer. (Note: You will get a new code for your online textbooks for your individual classes
this fall.)

APUSH Online Textbook

- my.mheducation.com
- Create Student Account (Unless you already have one from a previous class)
- Code: O9PQ92FB
- Click on eBook.

Chapters to Read
Chapter 1 (The Collision of Cultures)
Chapter 2 (Transplantations and Borderlands)
Chapter 3 (Society and Culture in Provincial America)

For Primary Sources, you need to go to (and bookmark/save) this following website as we will be returning to it
often throughout the course of the year. You will look at Primary Sources aligned with your summer readings.

American Yawp: http://www.americanyawp.com/reader.html

Click on and read primary sources from the following American Yawp chapters:
The New World
Colliding Cultures
British North America

**NOTE: If you have trouble accessing the Online Textbook, you may use www.americanyawp.com and read the
chapters from their online textbook. It is generated by AP teachers and professionals. Thus it is a highly acceptable 2 nd
Option for Summer Reading. **

You will need to have 12 pages of hand-written notes ready to show in class to complete the
assignment.

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Assignment #1: Native American Cultures
Name:_______________________

Fill out the following graphic organizer while consuming the following lecture on Native American Cultures on
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_Q50JDeLo
Arctic
Tribal Groups:

Plain Indians
Tribal Groups

Northeast /
Great Lakes
Tribal Groups:

Southwest
Tribal Groups:

Southeast
Tribal Groups:

Now, complete the map on the next page!

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Assignment #2 – Columbian Exchange Worksheet
Name:____________________

In the years following Columbus’ voyages to the Americas, the world witnessed an unprecedented permanent
exchange of people, products, and ideas known as the Columbian Exchange. You are to use the Wikipedia
article on the Columbian Exchange and any other online resources you find helpful in order to note significant
exchanges of animals, plants, populations, technology, culture, and ideas that took place during the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries. Your general goal should be to come up with at least three (3) entries for each box, but you
will realize when this will not be possible. It is best to leave this to your judgment in order to encourage
thorough research on your part.

New World to Old  Old World to New

Animals

Plants

Populations/
People

Technology

Culture & Ideas

Diseases

Other sources Consulted

(No set citation format is needed – just be descriptive enough that I can find these sources):

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Assignment #3 - Colonial Encounters and Differences
Spanish French Dutch England

Region(s)
Colonized

Religion

Interested 1. 1. 1. 1.
Parties

2. 2. 2. 2.
Economic
Pursuit(s)

Settlements

Number of
Colonists

Evangelism?

Relationship
with Native
Americans

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Assignment # 4 – Document Analysis

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Use the Space below to Answer Questions 1-3 from the previous document.

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Assignment # 5 – 13 Colonies Comparison
New England Middle Southern
Colonies Colonies Colonies
Key Colonies

Key Figures

Why settle?

Economic
Activity

Predominant
Religion(s)

Religious
Outlook

Other Notes

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