Download AP US History – Chapter 23 Objectives

AP US History – Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures
Objectives:
1. The ways in which the peoples of the New and Old Worlds affected each other when
their societies came in contact in the late fifteenth century.
2. The changes taking place in western Europe that resulted in widespread interest in
colonization.
3. The colonial policies of each nation involved, and the effect each had on the future of
the Americas.
4. The reasons for the rivalry between Spain and England during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, and the impact of that rivalry on international affairs.
5. The early development of the African slave trade.
6. The role of religion in European efforts to colonize the New World.
7. The ways in which the experiences of the English in Ireland influenced their efforts to
colonize North America.
8. The first efforts of the English to establish a colony and the reasons for their failure.
Main Themes:
1. That the colonization of the Americas was a collision of cultures.
2. The way the motives of the colonizers and their experiences prior to immigrating
shaped their attitudes toward Native American cultures.
3. The ways that the Old World influenced the history of the New.
Terms:
1. Demography
2. Feudalism
3. Black Death
4. Prince Henry the Navigator
5. Amerigo Vespucci
6. Mercantilism
7. “Plantations”
Summary:
Before European explores arrived in the Americas, Native Americans had developed their
own forms of social organizations, which differed from one another in their levels of
achievement. Europeans, concerned first with exploiting the New World and its peoples,
regarded the natives as savages and set out to destroy their societies and replace them with a
variation of European culture. Helped in this by the biological disaster brought on by
smallpox and other diseases, the Europeans were able to conquer the tribes and civilizations
and impose on the Indians a number of different colonial systems. To help make up for the
Indians’ labor lost through conquest and epidemic, Europeans brought in African slaves, who
added to the cultural diversity of America. Conflicts in the old world spilled over into the
New as different nations got into the race for colonies. By the end of the sixteenth century,
the age of discovery was all but over, and the great era of colonization, especially English
colonization, was about to begin.
AP US History – Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
Objectives:
1. The difference between the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies in terms of objectives,
types of settlers, early problems, and reasons for success.
2. The causes and significance of Bacon’s Rebellion.
3. The background of the Massachusetts Bay colony and its founders, the Puritans.
4. The efforts made by the Dutch to establish a colony, and the reasons for their failure.
5. The reasons for the founding of each of the original thirteen colonies.
6. The early economic, religious, and political factors in the colonies that tended to
produce sectional differences.
7. The effects of the Glorious Revolution on the development of the American colonies.
Main Themes:
1. How and why English colonies differed from one another in purpose and administration.
Terms:
1. Royal colony
2. Proprietary colony
3. Headright system
Summary:
During the seventeenth century, colonies were established in British North America. This
was accomplished in no small part because of exchanges between Europeans and the natives.
Before 1660, most colonies began as private ventures (with charters from the king), but the
motives that brought them into being were as varied as the sociopolitical systems they
developed. After 1660, propriety colonies became the norm, and charters indicated a closer
tie between the “owner” of a colony and the king, who granted the charter. As a result of this
colonization effort, by the 1680s England had an unbroken string of provinces stretching from
Canada to the Savannah River. As the colonies matured, their inhabitants began to exhibit a
concern for control of local affairs and an independence of interests that eventually came to
trouble the British Empire. It was a time when colonists began to sense that they were both
English and American, a dual personality that was to lead to trouble and confusion on both
sides of the Atlantic. The problem was that at the very time the American colonists were
developing attitudes and institutions distinctly American, England, fully aware of the potential
of its colonies, began to tighten its control of its possession.