Activities

Unit 1 Study Guide

APUSH Unit 1 Study Guide (link)

American Pageant 

• Chapter 1 - New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E. (Course Notes)

• Chapter 2 - The Planting of English North America, 1500-1733 (Course Notes)

• Chapter 3 - Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700 (Course Notes)

• Chapter 4 - American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692 (Course Notes)

Essential Questions

• How did Native North Americans live before European contact?

• How were the lives of Native Americans as well as Europeans and Africans transformed by the arrival of the conquistadors in the Americas?

• Why did Europeans settle in the English colonies? How did their motivations influence their settlement patterns and colony structures?

• Why was slavery introduced into the colonies?  And how did the institution of slavery influence European and African life in the colonies?

• To what extent did the colonies offer religious, political, social and economic freedom to their residents?

• How did the cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Americas interact in the colonies?

• How did bloodshed and conflicts reveal tensions in colonial society?

• To what extent did the colonial regions differ?  In what ways were they similar?

Unit Project

Unit 1 Document Based Question (DBQ)

• Compose a five-paragraph essay contrasting Chesapeake and New England colonization in response to the 1993 DBQ question below.