AP US History Summer Assignment Part 1 – Your summer assignment for AP US history is to be completed by the first day of school next year. The following is a list of vocabulary words that will cover the first 4 units we discuss in class. It is your job to go though and define each term, event or person. Your job is to be able to answer the question, “why is this term important?”
Vocabulary List
Indentured Servants Bacon’s Rebellion Mayflower Compact
House of Burgesses Salem Witch Trials Metacom/King Philips War
The Enlightenment The Great Awakening Middle Passage
Mercantilism Salutatory Neglect Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act(American Revenue Act) Stamp Act Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre Tea Act and Tea Party Intolerable Acts
Committees of Correspondence Continental Congress Treaty of Paris
Thomas Paine’s Common sense Republican Motherhood Shay’s Rebellion
Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Philadelphia Convention Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan The Great Compromise at the Convention
3/5 Compromise Federalists/Anti-Federalists Federalist #10
Bill of Rights Whiskey Rebellion Neutrality
John Jay’s Treaty Whig Party Election of 1796
Washington’s Farewell Address Alien and Sedition Acts XYZ Affair
Election of 1800 Spoils System Jacksonian Democracy
Louisiana Purchase Embargo Act Maybury v. Madison and Judicial Review
American System Sectionalism Monroe Doctrine
AP US History Summer Assignment Part 2 – The second part of your summer assessment is to go to this website -
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/224821.html
Once on this website, read through the historical thinking skills descriptions. Write out a definition of each skill in your own words. Be sure to include each component that makes up each of the skills.
Vocabulary List
Indentured Servants Bacon’s Rebellion Mayflower Compact
House of Burgesses Salem Witch Trials Metacom/King Philips War
The Enlightenment The Great Awakening Middle Passage
Mercantilism Salutatory Neglect Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act(American Revenue Act) Stamp Act Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre Tea Act and Tea Party Intolerable Acts
Committees of Correspondence Continental Congress Treaty of Paris
Thomas Paine’s Common sense Republican Motherhood Shay’s Rebellion
Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Philadelphia Convention Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan The Great Compromise at the Convention
3/5 Compromise Federalists/Anti-Federalists Federalist #10
Bill of Rights Whiskey Rebellion Neutrality
John Jay’s Treaty Whig Party Election of 1796
Washington’s Farewell Address Alien and Sedition Acts XYZ Affair
Election of 1800 Spoils System Jacksonian Democracy
Louisiana Purchase Embargo Act Maybury v. Madison and Judicial Review
American System Sectionalism Monroe Doctrine
AP US History Summer Assignment Part 2 – The second part of your summer assessment is to go to this website -
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/224821.html
Once on this website, read through the historical thinking skills descriptions. Write out a definition of each skill in your own words. Be sure to include each component that makes up each of the skills.