Weekly Post- August 14

US History
This week, we will compare and contrast the development of English settlement and colonization during the 17th Century. We will start by investigating how mercantilism and trans-Atlantic trade led to the development of colonies. We will have a vocabulary quiz Friday

1. Bacon’s Rebellion
2. House of Burgesses
3. mercantilism
4. New Amsterdam
5. Peter Stuyvesant
6. Powhatan
7. tobacco
8. trans-Atlantic trade
9. Virginia Company
10. William Penn

Recent US History
This week, we will analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
To begin, we will analyze the international policies and actions developed as a response to the Cold War including containment, the Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine.We will have a vocabulary quiz Friday

1. atomic bomb
2. Chinese Revolution
3. Cold War
4. containment
5. Korean War
6. Marshall Plan
7. Senator Joseph McCarthy
8. Sputnik I
9. Truman Doctrine
10. USSR

AP US History
This week, we will continue examining Time Period 1 (1491-1607). Make sure you have read Chapter 1 in The American Pageant and completed the Vocabulary for a Quiz Friday.

1. Bartolomé de Las Casas
2. Christopher Columbus 
3. Conquistadores 
4. Don Juan de Oñate 
5. Encomienda system 
6. Francisco Coronado 
7. Giovanni da Verranzo 
8. Henry Hudson 
9. Hernando de Soto 
10. Hiawatha 
11. John Cabot 
12. Joint stock companies 
13. Mestizos
14. Mound Builders 
15. peninsulare
16. Ponce de León 
17. Puebloans
18. Robert de La Salle 
19. Sir Walter Raleigh 
20. Treaty of Tordesillas