AP US Unit 1 Flashcards

Unit One: European Expansion Westward and English Colonial Structure: Unit Syllabus and Term Sheet

Unit I: Expansion and the Role of the Colonies

Textbook Readings:
Brinkley; Ch. 1 - The Meeting of Cultures
Ch. 2 - Transplantations and Borderlands

Primary Source Readings:
Students will gain further knowledge of the time period through discussion and analysis of one or more of the following primary sources: Readings of Bartolome de Las Casas, Mayflower Compact, Frame of Government, other various colonial charters, various colonial diaries.

Assignments / Projects:
Introduction to the DBQ - DBQ sample taken from previous AP tests or review examples

Unit Objectives:
� Students will identify and evaluate the contributions of Queen Elizabeth, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, John Smith, Walter Raleigh, John Rolfe, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Thomas Hooker, William Penn, George Calvert, and other pertinent personalities

� The students will identify and evaluate, but are not limited to, the following documents and their various influences on United States History: Various charters for each colony, Navigation Acts, Mayflower Compact, Saybrook platform, Virginia Charter, etc.

� The students will evaluate how the following events and social patterns influenced American History, including, but not limited to Westward European Expansion, Order of Expansion, The result of Exploration on Native American culture, major differences between English and Spanish exploration, Basic structure of the Thirteen colonies, Three concepts of borrowed government, Colonial government, the concept of Mercantilism.

� The students will evaluate the various conflicts and cooperation among social groups and organizations of the time period by studying the following events or situations, including but not limited to Native American v. Colonial settlers, secular v. non-secular expansion, cooperation of some Native American Tribes and colonial settlements, Bacon's and Culpepper's rebellion etc.

� The students will practice, improve, and exhibit evidence of writing prowess by discussing the differences between Spanish and English colonization and/or various reasons for European expansion into the Western Hemisphere through essay format.

General Unit Outline:
Please use the following outline of the unit as an approximate guide (not all items in the outline are covered in the book)
� Factors which lead to European expansion westward
� Order of European Expansion in Americas
� Characteristics of the nations and people who took the journey across the Atlantic
� Influence of expansion on the Native American Populations at the time of Exploration
� England joins Expansion:
� Reasons for English Expansion,
o Idiosyncrasies of English expansion,
o Comparison of English and Spanish Exploration
o Religious incentive in English expansion
� Basic structure of the 13 colonies and their creation.
o Examine the differences between Middle, Northern, and Central Colonial structure
� Three Concepts of Government which traversed the ocean from England to the American colonies
o Ordered Govt.
o Limited govt.
o Representative govt.
� Types of Colonies
o Royal
o Charter
o Proprietary