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- Homework responsibilities
- Discussion/Blog questions
- Maps and Images
- Video
- PowerPoint Review
- Additional Readings
- Practice, Practice, Practice
1. Homework
- Learn the period one standards.
- Read and take notes in American Pageant, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 4-42.
- Contribute to the standards blog.
- Know all essential vocabulary and geography.
2. Discussion/Blog questions
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Explain how conceptions of group identity and autonomy emerged out of cultural interactions between colonizing groups, Africans, and American Indians in the colonial era. Explain how patterns of exchanging commodities, peoples, diseases, and ideas around the Atlantic World developed after European contact and shaped North American colonial-era societies. Explain the development of labor systems such as slavery, indentured servitude, and free labor from the colonial period through the end of the 18th century. Explain how and why people moved within the Americas (before contact) and to and within the Americas (after contact and colonization) Analyze the effects that migration, disease, and warfare had on the American Indian population after contact with Europeans. Explain how free and forced migration to and within different parts of North America caused regional development, cultural diversity and blending, and political and social conflicts through the 19th century. |
Explain how the natural environment contributed to the development of distinct regional group identities, institutions, and conflicts in the precontact period through the independence period. Analyze how the search for economic resources affected social and political developments from the colonial period through Reconstruction. Explain how imperial competition & the exchange of commodities across both sides of the Atlantic Ocean influenced the origins and patterns of development of North American societies in the colonial period. Analyze the factors behind competition, cooperation, and conflict among different societies and social groups in North America during the colonial period. Compare the cultural values and attitudes of different European, African American, and native peoples in the colonial period and explain how contact affected intergroup relationships and conflicts. |
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5. PowerPoint Review
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6. Additional Readings Primary Source:
Primary Source: Second Letter from Hernan Cortés to King Charles V of Spain, 1520
Primary Source: Excerpts from An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Primary Source: Excerpts from An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Primary Source: Excerpts from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies , by Bartolmé de las Casas, 1542
Primary Source: Thirty Very Judicial Propositions, by Bartolomé de las Casas
Primary Source: Thirty Very Judicial Propositions, by Bartolomé de las Casas
Primary Source: Excerpt from Discourse of Western Planting, by Richard Ha kluyt, 1584
Primary Source: The Iroquois Constitution, by the Iroquois Confederacy
7. Practice, Practice, Practice
- Quiz questions with instant feedback: Quiz1 Quiz2 Quiz3 Quiz4
- American Pageant Practice Tests: Chapter One Chapter Two
- Thematic Review Concepts