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AP US History
Reading Guide: Prologue and Chapter 1

Read pages 3-17 and answer the following questions.

Prologue Part 1: Identify For each term or person, write a short description. Be sure to note who,
what, where, when AND why important. Use a separate sheet if necessary.

Located in Louisiana, this area became one of the earliest sedentary communities,
Poverty Point founded around 1000BCE. Because of their skill at acquiring food, they could engage
in huge construction projects such as a large concentric mound. This points to a
hierarchical structure of government, not egalitarian like many early archaic peoples.

Hopewell

The term given to the various cultures that lived in central America prior to
Mesoamerica European contact. It is this culture that domesticated corn.

Anasazi

Prologue Part 2: Questions

1. In what ways was Cahokia a “true” urban center?

2. What other urban centers existed?

3. Why did these urban centers collapse? List and describe several reasons.
Chapter 1, Part 1: Identify For each term or person, write a short description. Be sure to note who,
what, where, when AND why important. Use a separate sheet if necessary.

BARTOLOME DE LAS
CASAS

REQUERIMIENTO

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

RICHARD HAKLUYT

QUEEN ELIZABETH I

JOHN SMITH

JOHN ROLFE

HOUSE OF BURGESSES

WILLIAM BRADFORD
TISQUANTUM

JOHN WINTHROP

ROGER WILLIAMS

ANNE HUTCHINSON

GEORGE CALVERT,
LORD BALTIMORE

WILLIAM PENN

Part 2: Short answer. Use a separate sheet if necessary.

1. For what reasons did it take longer for other European countries to begin to challenge Spain in the
exploration of the New World?

2. The book has a section (starts page 23) entitled “Relativity of Cultural Values.” In the space
below, summarize the section. What point are the authors making here in regard to the settling of
the New World.
3. The explicit definition of “joint stock company” is: “an association of individuals in a business
enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are
liable for the debts of the business.” Write an implicit definition, in your own words, which
corresponds to the context of the text.

4. For what reasons did King James I grant a charter to the London Company and the Plymouth
Company to establish colonies in the New World?

5. Who were the “separatists?”

6. How were the Puritans who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony different from the Pilgrims
of Plymouth?

7. Describe the Puritan government system.

8. What did the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut provide? Why was it significant?
9. Where did the French and the Dutch make an impact in the New World?

10. What were the differences between a “royal” colony and a “proprietary” colony? Give examples.

11. Identify the significance of the Toleration Act.

12. How did New Amsterdam become New York?

13. How were the Quakers different than the Puritans? How were they viewed by the Puritans?

14. List the various ways the colonists learned from the Indians in the early days of colonization.

15. What did the Indians get in return? List below.