May 3, 2017

Dear 2017-2018 AP U.S. History Students,

I am looking forward to meeting you and helping you achieve your goals next year in Advanced Placement U.S.
History. The class in which you are enrolled has a rather rigorous schedule and timeline. If you are going to be
ready for the redesigned AP U.S. History Exam Friday, May 11, 2018 we will need to read ahead a few chapters so
the timeline becomes more manageable. Please note the following information so that you are prepared for the first
day of school in the fall.

Thank you for your effort to help us get ahead, and please be sure to enjoy your summer, get plenty of rest and be
ready to be accept a true academic challenge next semester.

If you have any questions or concerns while working on this material, please feel free to email me at
timothy.rosinbum@dvusd.org.

Sincerely,

Tim Rosinbum
Advanced Placement U.S. History Instructor

Enclosed:

Parent letter
Summer Assignment
May 3, 2017

Dear Parents/ Guardians of Advanced Placement U.S. History Students,

I am delighted your son/daughter has chosen to take Advanced Placement U.S. History next year and look forward
to a busy and exciting academic year. The class in which your student is enrolled is designed to fulfill the
requirements of AZ/American History demanded by the state and school district. However, it is unusual in that it
also offers your junior an opportunity to earn college credit. Consequently, the course is parallel to two semesters
of American history offered by colleges and universities. Successful completion of the class will also satisfy some
of the core requirements at Arizona’s three state universities.

The Advanced Placement class is considerably more rigorous than the accelerated honors classes your son or
daughter has previously taken, but aligns well with rigor of the Advanced Placement World History class offered to
sophomores. Your student will need to make a commitment to a considerable amount of outside preparation each
day. Because of the extensive reading and writing required, many students may need to spend from five to ten
hours each week studying outside of class. The reading requirement is usually from 20-50 pages each week over
and above the in-class activities and writing requirements. All reading will be done outside of class.

On May 11, 2018, our students will have the opportunity to take the redesigned College Board examination in U.S.
History. Grades on this exam will determine whether or not your student earns college credit. In addition, all
students who successfully complete this class with a “C” or higher, will earn an additional honor point toward their
cumulative grade point average.

I have found our AP students to be bright, interesting, and enthusiastic. A large number score well on the AP Exam
and have earned college credit, including well over 80% on the four tests I have administered (the most recent test
I have data for at this moment). I look forward with great enthusiasm to getting acquainted with your daughter or
son. Please feel free to contact me and/or read along with us. If you have any questions or concerns, please
contact me at timothy.rosinbum@dvusd.org.

Sincerely,

Tim Rosinbum
Advanced Placement U.S. History Instructor
Mountain Ridge High School
Advanced Placement AZ/American History
Summer Assignment Expectations:
1. Use the textbook files on my website. Click on “MORE” to access all the textbook chapters.
www.dvusd.org/Domain/4480
The American Pageant; Thirteenth Edition
2. Download and PRINT summer assignment from Mr. Rosinbum’s website. www.dvusd.org/Domain/4480
3. Send Mr. Rosinbum an email from home/summer email address to establish email communication. In the email,
provide your name and something interesting about you – vacation this summer, pets, favorite food, etc.
(timothy.rosinbum@dvusd.org )
4. Read chapters: Chapters 1-4 American Pageant
5. Reading Notes – Your notes ARE the answers to your study guide. You do NOT need to take notes in addition to
answering the study guide questions.
Complete Cornell Notes/Graphic Organizer/Paragraph Summarization format as you read each assigned chapter.
1. All notes MUST be handwritten by student.
2. The Study Guide for each chapter has questions. Answering the questions qualifies as taking notes. You do NOT
need to take notes and answer questions.
3. Use lined notebook paper
4. Complete the Colonial Map activity
6. Required Annotations: Download and PRINT pages 24-34 of the PDF called “Key Concept Outline.” The page
numbers are at the bottom of the pages. The first page is titled “Period 1.” Annotate each letter of the key concept
outline as specified on the study guide for each chapter. Tip: Period 1 includes only information from Chapter 1.
Period 2 includes information from Chapters 1-4.

NOTE:
FIRST DAY Reading Quiz:
On the day of return to school a reading quiz will be given on these assigned chapters. Be sure to walk in the door
KNOWING your stuff. Your notes will be collected and scored.

Example Answers for Study Guide:

Example for Ch. 1 Question 2, paragraph answer:
The American continent, part of the original Pangaea (one continent), began to break away and form its distinctive
characteristics, including the Appalachian mountains in the East and the Rockies and Cascades in the West. The
Great Ice Age that settled on America about 2 million years ago created much of the modern American geology
when it retreated a scant 10,000 years ago, forming thousands of lakes and sculpting the Great Lakes in the
Midwest, the river systems of the Mississippi and the Columbia and created Lake Bonneville, trapped by rock, that
eventually evaporated into today’s Great Salt Lake.

Example for Ch. 1 Question 2 Cornell Notes answer:

Answer: After separating from Pangaea, the American continent, due to the Great Ice Age, began to form
its distinctive characteristics.
Mountain ranges Appalachians (East), Rockies and Cascades (West)
Water features Great Lakes in Midwest, Mississippi and Columbia rivers, Great Salt Lake

Example Responses for Annotations:

1.2.II.A: Spanish exploration and conquest of the Americas were accompanied and furthered by widespread deadly
epidemics that devastated native populations and by the introduction of crops and animals not found in the
Americas.
Annotations: horses – Plains Indians, pigs, cattle, smallpox – 90% population reduction in some native
societies

***Final note: Please do not spend all your time making your work look good or writing large volumes of
pages. I am more interested in you learning than anything else. Take notes in a manner that helps you
remember the material. You should not be spending more than two hours on a chapter.***
***Final, Final note: The “notes” and the “questions” are the same thing. Do NOT take notes AND answer
the questions. That is redundant. The answers to the questions ARE the notes.***
 Chapter 1 Study Guide – The American Pageant
“New World Beginnings”

Answer each of the following questions thoroughly and include the key term definitions in your response. Be sure to
analyze all charts and graphs in the chapter as these are frequently utilized on the AP Exam.

 Each term must include a definition IN YOUR OWN WORDS and an example (if necessary). Highlight it.
 Each question must be thoroughly answered in a paragraph, Cornell Notes or using a graphic organizer.
 All answers must be YOUR WORK and summarized in YOUR OWN WORDS.
 Underlined words are of extreme importance, and should be known.
Key Concept Outline Elements: 1.1.I.A-D; 1.2.I.A-C; 1.2.II.A-D; 1.2.III.A-C; 2.1.I.A; 2.1.III.F – note, for some of
these you may have a hard time finding examples to annotate. Do your best!

1. Summarize the geographical development of America. (Key terms: Great Ice Age)
2. Who were the earliest people in America? What were they like? (Key terms: Mound Builders, “three
sister farming,” pueblo people, Iroquois Confederacy)
3. What motivations, successes and failures did the Europeans have in their early attempts to find new
places? (Key terms: Bartholomeu Dias, slavery, plantation system)
4. Why did Christopher Columbus sail west? What did he find?
5. Create an artistic depiction of the Columbian Exchange with captions to explain.
6. Explain the impact of the Spanish Conquistadores, including their successes, failures and methods.
(Key terms: conquistadores, encomienda system, Bartelome de Las Casas)
7. How did the Spanish conquer Mexico? (Key Terms: Malinche, Quetzalcoatl, meztizos)
8. Summarize the spread of Spanish America. (Key Terms: St. Augustine, FL; Popé’s Rebellion (Pueblo
Revolt – this belongs in Period 2 Annotations), Franciscan Friars, Black Legend)
 Chapter 2 Study Guide – The American Pageant
“The Planting of English America”

Answer each of the following questions thoroughly and include the key term definitions in your response. Be sure to
analyze all charts and graphs in the chapter as these are frequently utilized on the AP Exam.

 Each term must include a definition IN YOUR OWN WORDS and an example (if necessary). Highlight it.
 Each question must be thoroughly answered in a paragraph, Cornell Notes or using a graphic organizer.
 All answers must be YOUR WORK and summarized in YOUR OWN WORDS.
 Underlined words are of extreme importance, and should be known.
Key Concept Outline Elements: 2.1.I.C; 2.1.II.A,D,E; 2.1.III.A-E; 2.2.II.A-C

1. Summarize how the English begin looking for an empire (two sections). (Key terms: Protestantism,
Ireland)
2. Describe England on the eve of its empire. (Key term: Puritanism)
3. Explain the challenges and successes of Jamestown. (Key term: joint stock company, Virginia Company,
John Smith, Pocahontas, Powhatan)
4. Analyze the clash of cultures in the Chesapeake area. Why did it happen? What were the results? (Key
terms: First Anglo-Powhatan War, Second Anglo-Powhatan War)
5. What was the “New World” like for the Indians? How did it change? (example – horses transformed
native life on the Great Plains, disease, trade systems)
6. How did tobacco transform Virginia? (Key terms: plantation system, slavery, House of Burgesses)
7. What was the purpose of the Maryland colony? Was it successful in achieving that purpose? (Key
terms: Act of Toleration)
8. How did the West Indies affect the English Colonies? (Key term: Barbados slave codes)
9. What was the purpose of colonizing the Carolinas? How did it affect the native population?
10. Why was Georgia a significant colony? What were its purposes? (Key term: James Oglethorpe)
11. Explain the Iroquois Confederacy. (Key terms: Iroquois Confederacy, Handsome Lake, longhouse)
 Chapter 3 Study Guide – The American Pageant
“Settling the Northern Colonies”

Answer each of the following questions thoroughly and include the key term definitions in your response. Be sure to
analyze all charts and graphs in the chapter as these are frequently utilized on the AP Exam.

 Each term must include a definition IN YOUR OWN WORDS and an example (if necessary). Highlight it.
 Each question must be thoroughly answered in a paragraph, Cornell Notes or using a graphic organizer.
 All answers must be YOUR WORK and summarized in YOUR OWN WORDS.
 Underlined words are of extreme importance, and should be known.
Key Concept Outline Elements: 2.1.I.B-C; 2.1.II.B-C,E; 2.1.III.A-E; 2.2.II.A

1. Describe the transformation from the Protestant Reformation to Puritanism. (Key terms: Protestant
Reformation, John Calvin, Puritans, Separatists, predestination, “visible saints”)
2. In what ways were the Pilgrims successful? What hardships did they face? (Key terms: Mayflower
Compact)
3. The Massachusetts Bay Company is considered “blessed.” Why? How was it built? (Key terms:
Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, “city on a hill,” Puritan Great Migration)
4. What were some of the problems that appeared in the Bible Commonwealth, and how did that lead to
the creation of Rhode Island (two sections)? (Key terms: Quakers, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams)
5. Why did the English colonists expand into Connecticut and New Hampshire? (Key terms: Fundamental
Orders)
6. What were the main conflicts between the Puritans and the Indians? (Key terms: King
Phillip/Metacom’s War)
7. How did the colonies experience some early unity and independence from Great Britain? (Key terms:
benign neglect – also called salutary neglect)
8. What caused “The First American Revolution?” To what extent was “The First American Revolution” a
true revolution? Was it successful? Why or why not? (Key terms: Dominion of New England, Navigation
Laws)
9. Why, where, how and when did the Dutch start colonizing in America? (Key terms: Dutch West India
Company, New Netherlands/New Amsterdam)
10. For what specific reasons did the Dutch colonists struggle with their English and Swedish neighbors
AND how did they lose their colonies?
11. Why was Pennsylvania created? Did it meet up with its expectations? (Key terms: William Penn,
Quakers, “Penn’s Woods”)
12. What was so special and unique about the Middle Colonies? (Key terms: Benjamin Franklin)
 Chapter 4 Study Guide – The American Pageant
“American Life in the Seventeenth Century”

Answer each of the following questions thoroughly and include the key term definitions in your response. Be sure to
analyze all charts and graphs in the chapter as these are frequently utilized on the AP Exam.

 Each term must include a definition IN YOUR OWN WORDS and an example (if necessary). Highlight it.
 Each question must be thoroughly answered in a paragraph (2-7 sentences depending on question,
Cornell Notes, Main Idea/Details or using a graphic organizer.
 All answers must be YOUR WORK and summarized in YOUR OWN WORDS.
 Underlined words are of extreme importance, and should be known.
Key Concept Outline Elements: 2.1.II.E; 2.1.II.A,D; 2.2.I.C-D; 2.2.II.A-C

1. List the environmental and social problems that plagued families and colonists in the Chesapeake Bay
(Southern colonies) area?
2. How did the tobacco economy transform the Chesapeake? (Key Term: headright system)
3. Explain the causes and effects of Bacon’s Rebellion. (Key Term: Bacon’s Rebellion)
4. Describe the changes in Colonial chattel slavery from 1619 (Jamestown) to the late 18th century. (Key
Term: middle passage, slave codes)
5. Analyze the contributions of Africans to American culture (two sections). (Key Term: ringshout)
6. Draw a physical representation (like a triangle or something else) of the social hierarchy of white
Southerners in the colonial period.
7. List the factors that favored population growth in the Puritan New England states?
8. How was life in the New England colonies different than in the southern colonies or the middle
(Chesapeake) colonies? (Key terms: town meeting, proprietors)
9. The Half-Way Covenant and Salem Witch Trials led to some changes in Puritan New England. Explain it
and how it changed their society (two sections). (Key terms: Half-Way Covenant, jeremiad, Salem Witch
Trials)
10. What geological feature of New England shaped its destiny? How did it contribute to molding Puritan
society? (Key terms: cod, livestock – explain their impact on New England)
 Colonial Map Activity
Label the colonies on the map. Identify important cities. Color the three different colonial regions. Draw the
different crops. Show significant events (example: Roger Williams being kicked out of Massachusetts).