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1 CLAYTON HIGH SCHOOL AP U.S. History I SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENTS Mr. Ahern Summer 2017 On-line text Welcome to AP U.S. History I! This is a college level course. You are expected to complete all of the assignments. Enclosed you will find assignments to complete this summer at your own pace. They are ALL due on the FIRST DAY of SCHOOL in September. LATE WORK will NOT be accepted! 1. Please read and OUTLINE Chapter 1: Exploration, Discovery, and Settlement, Refer to this web site to learn to outline: 2. Define the Key Names, Events and Terms. 3. Answer the Identifications, Matching and Putting things in order and the Cause and Effect sections. 4. Answer the short answer questions Value: One TEST grade. *NOTE* On the Monday after we return from school in September, be prepared to take a multiple choice TEST on your knowledge of Chapter 1: Exploration, Discovery, and Settlement,

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3 API CHAPTER 1 New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.-A.D Identify and state the historical significance of the following: 1. Marco Polo 2. Francisco Pizarro 3. Juan Ponce de León 4. Hernando de Soto 5. Montezuma 6. Christopher Columbus 7. Hernán Cortés 8. Francisco Coronado 9. Robert de La Salle 10. Jacques Cartier 11. Giovanni da Verrazano 12. John Cabot 13. Vasco Nunez Balboa 14. Ferdinand of Aragon 15. Isabella of Castile 16. Quetzalcoatl 17. Bartholomeu Dias 18. Hiawatha 19. Bartolome de Las Casas 20. Ferdinand Magellan 21. Vasco da Gama Describe and state the historical significance of the following: 22. Renaissance 23. mestizos 24. Treaty of Tordesillas 25. three sister farming 26. Great Ice Age 27. Canadian Shield 28. Mound Builders 29. Spanish Armada 30. black legend 31. conquistadores 32. Aztecs 33. Popé's Rebellion 34. Pueblo Indians 35. Iroquois Confederacy 36. cartography 37. Native Americans

4 38. Vinland 39. St. Augustine, Florida 40. kiva 41. Spice Islands 42. Moors 43. ecosystem 44. encomienda 45. malinchista 46. Dia de la Raza USE CHAPTER ONE TO COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING A. Identification Supply the correct identification for each numbered description. 1. Extended period when glaciers covered most of the North American continent 2. Staple crop that formed the economic foundation of Indian civilizations 3. Important ancient Anasazi Indian center in New Mexico that included a pueblo of six hundred interconnected rooms 4. First European nation to send explorers around the west coast of Africa 5. Flourishing West African kingdom that had a major Islamic university in the city of Timbuktu 6. The two smaller kingdoms that were united by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to create the powerful nation of Spain 7. Animal introduced to North America by Europeans that transformed the Indian way of life on the Great Plains 8. Name one of the major European diseases that devastated Native American populations after Sexually transmitted disease originating in the Americas that was transmitted and spread among Europeans after Treaty of 1492 that aimed to divide all of the Americas between Spain and Portugal 11. Wealthy and populous capital of the Aztec empire 12. Term for a person of mixed European and Indian ancestry 13. A major Pueblo uprising of 1680 caused by Spanish efforts to suppress the Indians religious practices 14. Spanish term for the night of June 30, 1520, when war began between Aztecs and Spanish, leading to Spanish conquest of Mexico 15. Roman Catholic religious order of friars that organized a chain of missions in California B. Matching People, Places, and Events Match the person, place, or event in the left column with the proper description in the right column by inserting the correct letter on the blank line.

5 1. Ferdinand and Isabella 2. Hernan Cortés and Francisco Pizarro 3. Lake Bonneville 4. Días and da Gama 5. Christopher Columbus 6. Malinche 7. Moctezuma 8. Hiawatha 9. Tenochtitlán 10. St. Augustine 11. Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) 12. Junipero Serra 13. Bartolome de Las Casas a. Female Indian slave who served as interpreter for Cortés b. Legendary founder of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy c. Wealthy capital of the Aztec empire d. Financiers and beneficiaries of Columbus s voyages to the New World e. Portuguese navigators who sailed around the African coast f. Dominican friar who sympathized with Indians and protested cruel Spanish policies in the New World g. Founded in 1565, the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in United States territory h. Italian-born navigator sent by English to explore North American coast in 1498 i. Italian-born explorer who thought that he had arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on unknown continents j. Powerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquerors k. Spanish conquerors of great Indian civilizations l. Franciscan missionary who settled California m. Inland sea left by melting glaciers whose remnant is the Great Salt Lake C. Putting Things in Order Put the following events in correct order by numbering them from 1 to The wealthy Aztec civilization falls to Cortés. 2. Portuguese navigators sail down the west coast of Africa. 3. The first human inhabitants cross into North America from Siberia across a temporary land bridge. 4. Coronado explores present-day American Southwest. 5. Spanish conquerors move into the Rio Grande valley of New Mexico.

6 D. Matching Cause and Effect Match the historical cause in the left column with the proper effect in the right column by writing the correct letter on the blank line. Cause 1. The Great Ice Age 2. Cultivation of corn (maize) 3. New sailing technology and desire for spices 4. Portugal s creation of sugar plantations on Atlantic coastal islands 5. Columbus s first encounter with the New World 6. Native Americans lack of immunity to smallpox, malaria, and yellow fever 7. The Spanish conquest of large quantities of New World gold and silver 8. Aztec legends of a returning god, Quetzalcoatl 9. The Spanish need to protect Mexico against French and English encroachment 10. Franciscan friars desire to convert Pacific coast Indians to Catholicism Effect a. Rapid expansion of global economic commerce and manufacturing b. European voyages around Africa and across the Atlantic attempting to reach Asia c. Establishment of Spanish settlements in Florida and New Mexico d. Exposure of a land bridge between Asia and North America e. Formation of a chain of mission settlements in California f. A global exchange of animals, plants, and diseases g. The formation of large, sophisticated civilizations in Mexico and South America h. Cortés s relatively easy conquest of Tenochtitlán i. A decline of 90 percent in the New World Indian population j. The rapid expansion of the African slave trade

7 SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (answer in complete sentences and be thorough) 11. How did the geographic setting of North America including its relation to Asia, Europe, and Africa affect its subsequent history? 12. What were the common characteristics of all Indian cultures in the New World, and what were the important differences among them? 13. What fundamental factors drew the Europeans to the exploration, conquest, and settlement of the New World? 14. What was the impact on the Indians, Europeans, and Africans when each of their previously separate worlds collided with one another? 15. What were the greatest achievements of Spain s New World Empire, and what were its greatest evils and disasters? 16. Should the European encounter with the Indian peoples of the Americas be understood primarily as a story of conquest and exploitation, or as one of mutual cultural encounter that brought beneficial as well as tragic results for both?

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