Summer Assignment Part 1: Due June 29, 2012

Reading Guide—Bailey American Pageant
Chapter 1—New World Beginnings Pages 1-24

Planetary Perspectives

1.      Why was the United States the most influential of American republics?

Indirect Discoverers of the New World

2.      How did the Crusades affect the “discovery” of the America’s?

Columbus Comes Upon a New World

3.      What were the first nations to unite politically in Europe?

4.      What country led the way in exploration?

Earliest Americans

5.      Describe 3 of the earliest American civilizations:

1.

2.

3.

When Worlds Collide

6.      Describe the Columbian Exchange.

7.      What were 2 New World & 2 Old World contributions?

New world:

      1.

      2.

Old World:

      1.

      2.

The Spanish Conquistadores

8.      Describe 6 conquistadores and where/what they conquered:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

ID/SIGs Bailey American Pageant- Chapter 1
New World Beginnings
Pgs. 1-20

1. Marco Polo                               

2. Francisco Pizarro                     

3. Francisco Coronado

4. Vasco da Gama                         

5. Hernan Cortes

6. Christopher Columbus

7. Junipero Serra

8. Montezuma

9. Malinche               

10. Renaissance                             

11. mestizo                                   

12. conquistadores

13. encomienda

14. Treaty of Tordesillas               

15. black legend


Chapter 2 Bailey American Pageant—Planting of English America pages 25-41

England’s Imperial Stirrings

1. Why was the defeat of the Spanish Armada so important to England?

England on the Eve of Empire

2. How did primogeniture and joint-stock companies help England create an empire?

The Plantation Colonies

3. Describe 4 similarities the Plantationcolonies shared.

1.

2.

3.

4.

Ch. 2 ID/SIGs Bailey American Pageant—Planting of English America
Pgs 25-40

1. John Rolfe

2. Francis Drake                          

3. Lord Baltimore

4. Humphrey Gilbert

5. Oliver Cromwell

6. Walter Raleigh

7. James Olgethorpe

8. John Smith

9. national-state                          

10. yeoman

11. joint-stock company                  

12. proprietor

13. slavery                                    

14. squatter

15. enclosure                                 

16. primogeniture

17. royal charter                           

18. indentured servitude

19. slave codes

20. House of Burgesses

21. Spanish Armada

22. Act of Toleration

23. Virguinia Company

24. Restoration

Reading Guide—Bailey American Pageant
Chapter 3—Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700
Pages 42-63


Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism

1.      What were Calvin’s arguments in the tome Institutes of the Christian Religion?

2.      What did Calvinists constantly seek?

Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth

3.      What was the Mayflower Compact?

4.      What did the Pilgrims base their economy on?

Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth

5.      Who were the Non-Separatists?

6.      What did the Puritans believe they had with God?

Building the Bay Colony

7.      Describe the Bay Colony’s limited democracy.

8.      How did the Bay Colony endorse separation of church and state?

9.      Describe the Protestant ethic.

Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth

10.  Describe how Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams troubled Massachusetts.

Rhode Island “Sewer”

11.  Describe Roger William’s Rhode Island.

New England Spreads Out

12.  What were the Fundamental Orders?

Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence

13.  What was the primary purpose of the New England Confederation?

Andros Promotes the First American Revolution

14.  What was the purpose of the Dominion of New England?

15.  How did Andros restrict the New England colonies?

Old Netherlands at New Netherlands

16.  Describe the aristocratic tinge of New Netherland

Dutch Residues in New York

17.  What social customs did the Dutch provide to the colonies?

Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania

18.  Describe how the Quakers were offensive to the English.

19.  Describe 3 ways in which Pennsylvania was “liberal minded”.




      1.




      2.




      3.

Middle Way in the Middle Colonies

20.  Describe 4 ways the Middle colonies were similar:

1.

2.

3.

4.

21.  Describe 4 similarities all 13 colonies shared:

1.

2.

3.

4.

Ch. 3 ID/SIGs Bailey American Pageant
Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700
Pgs. 42-63

1. John Calvin                         

2. Thomas Hooker

3. Anne Hutchinson                 

4. William Penn

5. Roger Williams                    

6. John Cotton

7. Peter Stuyvesant                

8. Sir Edmund Andros

9. William Laud

10. the “elect”                          

11. “visible saints”

12. predestination                    

13. covenant

14. freemen                              

15. antinomianism

16. Protestant Reformation       

17. Puritans

18. Pilgrims                     

19. General Court

20. New England Confederation 

21. Dutch West India Company

22. Calvinism                             

23. Separatists

24. Massachusetts Bay Company

25. Bible Commonwealth

26. Dominion of New England     

27. Quakers

28. Institutes of the Christian Religion                 

29. Navigation Laws                            

30. Protestant ethic

31. Great Puritan Migration      

32. Mayflower Compact

33. Glorious Revolution              

34. Fundamental Orders

STUDY QUESTIONS

ZINN CHAPTER 1, pp. 1-11

1. According to Zinn, what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of   the United States?
 
 


2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11?
 
 


3. According to Zinn, how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books?
 
 


4. Why does Zinn dispute Henry Kissinger’s statement: "History is the memory
    of  states?"
 
 


5. What is Zinn’s basic criticism of historian Samuel Eliot Morison’s book,
    Christopher Columbus, Mariner?
 
 


6. What major issues does Bartolome de las Casas bring up regarding Spanish
    expeditions in the Caribbean?
 
 


7. Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to
    oppress indigenous peoples.
 
 


8. What was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians?

STUDY QUESTIONS

ZINN CHAPTER 1, pp. 2-22

1. What was the significance of Quetzalcoatl?
 


2. Compare the strategies and motives underlying the conquest of the Aztecs by
    Cortez and the conquest of the Incas by Pizzaro.
 


3. What were the major causes of war between the Powhatans and the English
    settlers?
 


4. Discuss the significance of Powhatan’s statement, "Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?"
 


5. Explain Governor John Winthrop’s legal and biblical justification for seizing
    Indian land.
 


6. Explain the main tactic of warfare used by the English against the Indians.
 


7. According to Roger Williams, how did the English usually justify their attacks
    on the Indians?
 


8. What ultimately happened to the estimated 10 million Indians living in North
    America at the time of Columbus’ arrival?


9. Evaluate the statement: "If there are sacrifices to be made for human
    progress, is it not essential to hold to the principle that those to be sacrificed
    must make the decision themselves?"


10. How does Zinn attempt to prove that the Indians were not inferior? Provide
    examples.