Summer Reading Assignment Reminder Rising Sophomores - Honors Only

Newton South High School

Modern Global Communities

World History

The Post-American World 2.0 Study Guide

This is a general study guide but does not cover everything on the exam.  You should have a thorough understanding of the book as well.  Make sure to define all terms

* Chapters 1 – 3 will be the material covered on the multiple choice section of the test.  This material may also be helpful for the essay portion of the test.

Chapter 1: The Rise of the Rest

Terms and People

recession                                                                     emerging markets

GDP                                                                            WTO

Bollywood                                                                  NGO

Cold War                                                                    

Questions to Consider

1.  What are the 3 great shifts Zakaria discusses at the beginning of this chapter?

2.  What are the statistics and examples listed by Zakaria that show growth in the non-Western world?

3.  What has changed since the “bi-polar” world of the Cold War?

Chapter 2: The Cup Runneth Over

Terms and People

IEDs                                                                            hyperinflation

Al Qaeda                                                                     G-8

Wahhabism                                                                 G-20

fatwa                                                                           OPEC

per capita GD                                                             entrepôt

International Monetary Fund                                     nationalism

The World Bank                                                         Kyoto Accord

U.S. Treasury Bond                                                    national debt

geo-politics                                                                 S & P 500

Questions to Consider

1.  What are some examples given of how Islamic extremist attacks are on the decline?  What are some of roadblocks the radical fringe movements have been encountering?

2.  What are some of the issues Zakaria presents in lumping all Muslim nations and people together as a single entity?

3.  What are some of the counter-arguments Zakaria gives to those that say the Muslim world is backward and does not seek modernity?

4.  What are some factors that has led to the large economic growth of the world economy during the 20^th century up to the year 2010?  By how much has the world economy grown from 1990 – 2010?

5.  Why did Alan Greenspan call the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the seminal economic event of our time”?  What results did this have on the world economy?

6.  Why is the free flow of money and central banking policies so important to the growth of the global economy?

7.  How did the expansion in communication systems help grow the world economy?

8.  What are some commodities that are seeing large price increases?  What are some of the factors causing this?

9.  What are resource rich countries and what are some positives and negatives discussed about these countries.

10.  What are the environmental problems the world is facing today and will face in the future?

11.  What are some of the factors that have led to a rise in nationalism, especially in the “developing” world?

12.  How is the United Nations’ system outdated according to Zakaria?

13.  What were the factors that led to financial crisis of 2008?

14.  Does Zakaria feel the U.S. is in decline?  Give some facts and quotations to support your answer.

15.  How has the U.S. foreign policy of the last 60 years contributed to the “rise of the rest”?

Chapter 3: A Non-Western World?

Terms and People

Christopher Columbus                                               indemnity

Admiral Zheng                                                            Peter the Great

Thomas Malthus                                                        sari                                                     

Magna Carta                                                               mass culture

topography                                                                 Al Jazeera

Questions to Consider

1.  What are similar and different about the voyages of Christopher Columbus and Admiral Zheng?

2.  What factors led to the end of Chinese dominance in naval affairs?

3.  How was the non-Western world achieving greater success’ then the Western world before the 15^th century?

4.  What was significant about the invention of the clock?

5.  How does the idea of “labor productivity” show how Europe’s innovations were more efficient than places like India and China?

6.  In what ways did culture maybe play a part in the destiny of certain countries?

7.  How did the topography of the land in Europe favor its growth over the topography of Asia and Africa?

8.  During the growth of European imperialism, how did their incursion into these areas affect the political, economic, religious and social aspect of the people’s lives?

9.  How did non-Western leaders try to mimic and/or adopt ideas from the West?

10.  What does historian, Samuel P. Huntington, feel makes a society “Western”?

11.  What important points is Zakaria making when he is discussing the spread of the English language?

12.  How does Zakaria’s discussion on religion show the complexity of the history of emerging nations along with the change the world is seeing today?

Essay:  The following two chapters (Chapter 4 & 5) are the focus of your essay question.  You will have a choice of an essay on India or China.  Review one of those two chapters in preparation for your essay.  Also, the two chapters on the United States will be helpful in your essay as well. 

Remember, Zakaria has picked these 2 countries for a reason.  Why did he select them? How are they changing and emerging?  How do they relate to the United States and the Western world?

Summer Assignment Reminder for Rising Juniors - Honors (AP) Only

Global Communities: U.S. History 4340

Summer Assignment/Preparation for Honors

We are excited to work with you all next year as we continue your exploration of Global Communities Program, focusing more on United States history and culture. The honors section of the class will be a unique mix of preparation for the Advanced Placement exam and other in-depth exploration of class ideas and sources. Consequently, at times your work will look like the work that your peers in standard AP courses are doing, but at other times your work will look considerably different. In any case, we will expect you to go into greater depth than your Advanced College Prep and College Prep colleagues, and you will do independent work, as well as your prepare for the AP exam.

To prepare you for the fall, please do the following two items this summer:

1. Read chapters 1-5 in the following AP prep book, and take notes on the attached study guide. Like your AP peers, you’ll have a review test on this material with in the first week of school.

Newman, John J. and Schmalbach, John M. United States History: Preparing for the Advanced

Placement Examination. NY: AMSCO Publications, Inc., 2010.

The book can be purchased online for less than $20, especially if you get a barely used copy. In addition, former AP students may have old copies they’d give you or sell you cheaply. Please note that this is NOT the newly released version of the AMSCO US history preparatory book; that version is selling for $40 online, and we do not expect you to buy that.

During the course of the year, you will be required to read and take notes from this book to supplement the regular textbook readings. We will refer to this book as AMSCO during the year. Chapters 1 through much of chapter 5 review the material for the review test in September, which will cover through the Revolution.

2. Also, read chapters 27 to 30 in your AMSCO book and take notes on the key ideas in those chapters; we may have less time to review this material (roughly 1950 to the present) later in the year, so it’s important that you become somewhat familiar with it now, to help us be more effective in preparing for the AP examination come April and May. Take it from this year’s Junior Honors section: you’ll be glad you did this come springtime, when we’re reviewing for the AP test! This material will NOT be on the initial quiz in September.

Have a restful and fun break, and look forward to some good work this upcoming year! If you have any questions, you can email Mr. Thompson at andrew_thompson@newton.k12.ma.us or Ms. Eng at lily_engshine@newton.k12.ma.us.

Global Junior Honors Colonial History Review Sheet

The following terms are arranged by topic and generally by textbook chapter. In a couple cases, the terms may not be in AMSCO. If that’s so, you should consult another source, such as a Brinkley book or one of these online resources:  http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/cards.php

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EXPLORATION (Chapter 1)

Motivation for exploration

Technology

Financing exploration

Portuguese, Spanish, French, English Explorers and the race for empires

Treaty of Tordisellas

Origin of Native Americans

Native American tribal culture

Meso-American cultures: Maya and Aztec

South American culture: Inca

Eastern North American culture: Iroquois

Ethnocentrism,confrontation,exploitation,disease

Spanish conquest

Spanish social, political, and economic domination

French social, political, and economic system in New World

French relations with American Indians

ENGLISH SETTLE IN NORTH AMERICA (Chapters 1-3)

Roanoke

Jamestown

English colonial charters

Joint Stock companies

House of Burgesses

Early English colonial economy

Slavery in English colonies

Headright system/indentured servants

English view of colonies and colonists

3 types of English colonies

Separatists/Mayflower Compact

Puritans and Mass. Bay Colony

Patterns of settlement and village growth

Society and government of Mass. Bay

Puritan oligarchy

Dissent in Mass. Bay

Pequot War

King Philip's War

The Restoration Colonies

Georgia and Oglethorpe

Society and cultures of the Northern, Middle, Southern colonies

Frontier/conflict of Piedmont vs. coastal elite

Economic development of colonial regions

British mercantilism/Period of Salutary Neglect

The Dominion of New England

Divergence between the English colonies and the homeland

Effects of land and indentured servants on colonial society

Structure and function of English colonial government; early government precedents in colonies

Family life in the colonies

Slavery and the slave system in the English colonies

British restriction on colonial economic growth

The Great Awakening

The Enlightenment

Education and literacy in the colonies

Colonial science

FRENCH & INDIAN WAR (Chapter 4) 

Land, fur, Indians and power

European politics

Fort Necessity & George Washington

Fort Duquesne & Braddock's Defeat

Course of the war until William Pitt

Battle of Quebec

Treaty of Paris & The English Empire

Effects of the war on American colonists

Effects of the war on England

GROWING TENSIONS (Chapter 4)

Reasons for England re-asserting control

Pontiac's Revolt

Proclamation Line/American resentment

Navigation Acts/Writs of Assistance

Stamp Act/Stamp Act Congress/Sons of Liberty

Paxton Boys/Regulators

American reaction to Acts and Taxes

Declaratory Act

Townshend Duties/Committees of Correspondence

Boston Massacre

Rights of English Subjects/The Enlightenment Ideology and philosophy of the Revolution

Virtual vs. Actual Representation

Loyalist/Rebel points of view

Tea Tax/Tea Party/English outrage

Coercive Acts

THE REVOLUTION (Chapter 5)

lst Continental Congress/Suffolk Resolves

Lexington & Concord/Bunker Hill

The Declaration of Independence & Ideology

Sovereignty of the people/Rights of Man

2nd Continental Congress & its role

Loyalists, Blacks, Women during the war

Financing the War

Battles & Campaigns

   Continental Army/militia

   Siege of Boston

   Battle of New York/Hessians

   Fall of Philadelphia

   Valley Forge

   Burgoyne and Saratoga

   1778 Treaty with France

   Western campaign

   Southern campaign/British strategy/ Yorktown/Treaty of Paris

THE CONFEDERATION PERIOD (Chapter 5)

Assumptions of republicanism

Nature of the new state governments

Voter qualifications

Revision of state constitutions

Virginia Statute of Religious Liberties

The question of slavery; actions of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania         

The problem of emancipation

Growth of abolitionist activity

Structure of the Confederation Government

Powers and problems of the Confederation Congress

The western land issue/land speculation

Achievements of the Confederation

Diplomatic problems of the new nation

Westward expansion

Land Ordinance of 1785

Townships

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Postwar depression and the problem of debt in the states

Shays’ Rebellion and the specter of anarchy