APUSH Summer Reading Test Review
Which nations colonized North America? Early? Later? Motives?
Describe Spanish colonies?
What were Britain’s first colonies in N.A.? Similarities? Differences?
What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?
Dissenters?
Settlements of other religious groups? Maryland? Pennsylvania?
Effects of expansion on religion? Great Awakening
How thorough was British control? Salutary neglect
Efforts at colonial unity? Albany Conference/Plan
Impact of French-Indian War? Good? Bad?
Efforts at British control? Proclamation of 1763 (Native Americans) Grenville’s dilemma Stamp Act
Beginnings of violence? Boston “massacre” and Sons of Liberty (Paul Revere)
How did British seek to reassert control? Coercive/Intolerable Acts Colonial response – Committees of Correspondence – First Continental Congress – boycotts
Armed conflict erupts Lexington Breed’s/Bunker Hill
What was the impact of Common Sense?
Efforts to create a national government Articles of Confederation
Zinn on traditional approach to Columbus
How should history be portrayed?
Efforts to solve Jamestown labor shortage Incentives to settlement Forced labor (indentured servants, Native Americans or African Slaves?)
Indentured servitude Number Motive for settlement Status Bacon’s Rebellion – Motivation – Aftermath
Why didn’t slaves resist? They did!
What was the Middle Passage?
Why didn’t poor whites and blacks make common cause?
Why did racism emerge according to Zinn?
What was the Regulator Movement?