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For a Fall Semester Final Exam Review Sheet CLICK HERE

AP American History Project,

Below are 8 selections with titles, URLs, and questions. You are responsible for reading and answering questions on five selections. Three of the selections are required. They are: "To Live Like a Slave", "Pocahontas", and "Common Mayflower Myths". You may choose your next two selections from any of the remaining titles based on what you find interesting. All work is due on the first day you return to school. After the first three required articles, there is no particular order for the remaining titles.

Live Like a Slave

http://www.history.org/other/journal/slave2.htm

Questions: (This is the longest article)

1. What was the author feeling about the re-enactment?

2. Why do you think she felt this way?

3. Why did she enjoy the dance and why did she believe the slaves liked to dance?

4. What point was the author trying to make when she said, ... slavery was an oppressor of the mind with the body led in tow?

5. Was this a positive experience for the author? Why?

Pocahontas

http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html

Question:

1. Discuss the difference between "Pocahontas the Legend" and "Pocahontas the Truth".

Common Mayflower Myths

http://members.aol.com/calebj/FAQ_history.html

Question:

1. Read the seven Mayflower myths and give a bottom line description/summary for each of the contradiction of the myth.

John Rolfe

http://www.apva.org/history/jrolfe.html

Questions:

1. What was the role of John Rolfe to the Virginia colony?

2. What were his two most important contributions to the Virginia colony?

Patrick Henry

http://www.history.org/people/bios/biohen.htm

Questions:

1. What was Patrick Henry alluding to when he said, "Caesar had his Brutes, Charles I had his Cromwell, and George III . . .?

2. What was Henry's role in pre-Revolutionary America?

Jamestown

http://www.apva.org/history/index.html

Question:

1. On a separate sheet of paper, using two columns, on the firs column list the facts you already knew about Jamestown, and on the second column, list the facts you learned about Jamestown after reading the article.

Girls on the Mayflower

http://members.aol.com/calebj/girls.html

Questions:

1. Describe the plight of Mary and Ellen More?

2. Why was Desire Minter on the Mayflower?

3. In general, how did the girls (women) fair on the trip on the Mayflower from England to America.

The Story of Squanto (Tisquantum)

http://members.aol.com/calebj/squanto.html

Questions:

1. How did Squanto learn to speak English?

2. What act of fate returned Squanto to America for the second time?

3. What had happened to Squanto's tribe (the Patuxet) upon his return to America?

4. What was Squanto's role with the Pilgrims?

5. How did Squanto abuse his role with the Pilgrims?

For more information on the Pre-Revolution time period you might wish to read:

Planters, Merchants, Labors

http://www.whc.neu.edu/prototype/06/br2n1.html

Martha Washington

http://www.history.org/people/bios/biomwash.htm

Runaway Slave

http://www.history.org/other/teaching/tchaaadv.htm

The Mayflower Compact

http://members.aol.com/calebj/compact.html

For a Fall Semester Final Exam Review Sheet

AP United States History

AP American History Project,

Below are 8 selections with titles, URLs, and questions. You are responsible for reading and answering questions on five selections. Three of the selections are required. They are: "To Live Like a Slave", "Pocahontas", and "Common Mayflower Myths". You may choose your next two selections from any of the remaining titles based on what you find interesting. All work is due on the first day you return to school. After the first three required articles, there is no particular order for the remaining titles.

Live Like a Slave

http://www.history.org/other/journal/slave2.htm

Questions: (This is the longest article)

1. What was the author feeling about the re-enactment?

2. Why do you think she felt this way?

3. Why did she enjoy the dance and why did she believe the slaves liked to dance?

4. What point was the author trying to make when she said, ... slavery was an oppressor of the mind with the body led in tow?

5. Was this a positive experience for the author? Why?

Pocahontas

http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html

Question:

1. Discuss the difference between "Pocahontas the Legend" and "Pocahontas the Truth".

Common Mayflower Myths

http://members.aol.com/calebj/FAQ_history.html

Question:

1. Read the seven Mayflower myths and give a bottom line description/summary for each of the contradiction of the myth.

John Rolfe

http://www.apva.org/history/jrolfe.html

Questions:

1. What was the role of John Rolfe to the Virginia colony?

2. What were his two most important contributions to the Virginia colony?

Patrick Henry

http://www.history.org/people/bios/biohen.htm

Questions:

1. What was Patrick Henry alluding to when he said, "Caesar had his Brutes, Charles I had his Cromwell, and George III . . .?

2. What was Henry's role in pre-Revolutionary America?

Jamestown

http://www.apva.org/history/index.html

Question:

1. On a separate sheet of paper, using two columns, on the firs column list the facts you already knew about Jamestown, and on the second column, list the facts you learned about Jamestown after reading the article.

Girls on the Mayflower

http://members.aol.com/calebj/girls.html

Questions:

1. Describe the plight of Mary and Ellen More?

2. Why was Desire Minter on the Mayflower?

3. In general, how did the girls (women) fair on the trip on the Mayflower from England to America.

The Story of Squanto (Tisquantum)

http://members.aol.com/calebj/squanto.html

Questions:

1. How did Squanto learn to speak English?

2. What act of fate returned Squanto to America for the second time?

3. What had happened to Squanto's tribe (the Patuxet) upon his return to America?

4. What was Squanto's role with the Pilgrims?

5. How did Squanto abuse his role with the Pilgrims?

For more information on the Pre-Revolution time period you might wish to read:

Planters, Merchants, Labors

http://www.whc.neu.edu/prototype/06/br2n1.html

Martha Washington

http://www.history.org/people/bios/biomwash.htm

Runaway Slave

http://www.history.org/other/teaching/tchaaadv.htm

The Mayflower Compact

http://members.aol.com/calebj/compact.html

For a Fall Semester Final Exam Review Sheet CLICK HERE

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