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Periods 1 & 2 (1491-1754) STUDY GUIDE

APUSH

Test Format:
About 36 multiple
choice questions

Test Date:
Friday
September 9,
2016

KEY TERMS: Using your reading notes, make sure you are comfortable with describing all of the terms below.
Period 1: 1491-1607

3 Cs: Contact, Commerce, and Competing Philosophies

Note: this list of terms comes from page 51 of your textbook, which has exact page numbers for most of the terms.
Is there a term below without a page number? Use the index! There are also great charts on the study guide pages.

Ch.
1

o
o
o
o
o

Maize
Zheng He
Peninsulares
Black Legend
Huguenots

o
o
o
o

Tenochtitlan
Caravel
Mestizos
Pueblo Revolt

o
o
o
o

Iroquois
Reconquista
Encomienda system
Metis

o Cahokia
o Columbian
Exchange
o Repartimento
o Patroons

Period 2: 1607-1754
3 Gs: Gold, God, and Glory
Note: this list of terms comes from pages 91, 133, and 177 of your textbook, which has exact page numbers for
most of the terms.
o Virginia Company
o Roanoke Colony
o Plantation
o Enclosure
o Indentured
o John Smith
o Headright system
movement
servant
o Dower rights
o Puritans
o House of
Ch.
o Uprising of 1622
o Mayflower
o Great Migration
Burgesses
2
o Pilgrims
Compact
o Metacom
o John Winthrop
o Half-Way
o Act Concerning
o Covenant Chain
o Pequot War
Covenant
Religion
o Bacons Rebellion
o Mercantilist
o Navigation Acts
o English Bill of
o King Philips War
system
o Las Sietes Partidas
Rights
o Yamasee Uprising
Ch.
o Society of
o Glorious
o Salem witch trials
o Slave code
3
Friends(Quakers)
Revolution
o Artisans
o Lords of Trade
o Anglicanism
o English Toleration
o Walking Purchase
Act
o Dominion of New
o Backcountry
o Middle Passage
o Stono Rebellion
England
o middle ground
o Republicanism
o Liberalism
Ch.
o Great Awakening
o Salutary neglect
o American
4
o Pontiacs
Enlightenment
Rebellion
o Albany Plan of
Union

KEY CONCEPTS: Using your reading notes and class

materials, make sure that you are familiar with all of the
following:
o The major characteristics of the British, French,
Dutch, and Spanish empires
o This includes: motives for colonization,
political structure, religion, relations with
American Indians, social structure, and
economic characteristics (including sources of
labor)
o Helpful page numbers:
French: starts pg 40, 165-170
Dutch: starts pg 40
Spanish: starts pg 27, 163-64
o Major similarities and differences between the four colonial regions in British North America (New
England, Middle, Chesapeake, and Lower South)

USEFUL RESOURCES:
1. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has great review videos divided by
period: http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/.
2. Remember that there are multiple choice quizzes on the Give Me Liberty! Textbook website:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty3/
3. AP US History Note cards, outlines, and testing /studying tips:
http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/index.php
WORK TO PASS IN:
After you pass in your test, please pass in the following papers for homework and classwork credit, respectively.
Chapter 3 guided reading questions
Intellectual Movements in Colonial America handout