1491 - 1607

Period 1

Key Concepts:
(WHAT you need to know)

Key Concept 1.1: As native populations

migrated and settled across the vast expanse
of North America over time, they developed
distinct and increasingly complex societies by
adapting to and transforming their diverse
environments.
Key Concept 1.2: Contact among
Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
resulted in the Columbian Exchange and
significant social, cultural, and political
changes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Historical Thinking Skills:

(HOW you show you know it)

Historical Causation
Comparison and Contextualization
Crafting Historical Arguments from
Historical Evidence
Historical Interpretation and Synthesis

Themes in US History
(WHY it matters)

Belief Systems
America in the
World
Geography &
Environment
Peopling
Identity
Politics and Power
Economy

What is Period 1 About?

Reflect! What about Period 1 do you know

something about? What do you still need to learn?

Discuss!

Think back to WHAP!

Big Ideas?
Themes?

Key Terms?
In groups, write a ONE-SENTENCE summary of Period
1 in each of your notebooks

At home, TAKE NOTES on these + vocab terms

Textbook/GetaFive/Crash

Course/Lecture Notes/Etc.

Homework! Pages 2-7 (Due tomorrow)

Big Ideas (Notes)

Who was here first?

Great Basin Indian

cultures
Great Plains Indian
cultures
Mississippi River Valley
Indian cultures
Northwest Indian
cultures
+ CORN
Civilized?

Big Ideas (Notes)

Who found America + WHY?

Norse/Spanish/Portuguese/British/French

Columbian Exchange (+ IMPACT =

SLAVERY)

Political/Social/Economic

Homework

At home, you need to be ACTIVELY going through the

content ON YOUR OWN.

Textbook
John Green Crash Course

TAKE NOTES

Vocab Terms
Key Concept 1.1:

As native populations migrated and settled across the vast expanse of

North America over time, they developed distinct and increasingly complex
societies by adapting to and transforming their diverse environments.
maize
Great Basin Indian cultures
Great Plains Indian cultures
Mississippi River Valley Indian cultures
Northwest Indian cultures

From the Journal of Christopher

Columbus
Sunday, 14th of October
...these people are very simple as regards the use of arms, as your Highnesses
will see from the seven that I caused to be taken, to bring home and learn our
language and return; unless your Highnesses should order them all to be
brought to Castile, or to be kept as captives on the same island; for with fifty
men they can all be subjugated and made to do what is required of them....
Sunday, 16th of December
...your Highnesses may believe that this island (Hispaniola), and all the others,
are as much yours as Castile. Here there is only wanting a settlement and the
order to the people to do what is required. For I, with the force I have under me,
which is not large, could march over all these islands without opposition. I have
seen only three sailors land, without wishing to do harm, and a multitude of
Indians fled before them. They have no arms, and are without warlike instincts;
they all go naked, and are so timid that a thousand would not stand before three
of our men. So that they are good to be ordered about, to work and sow, and do
all that may be necessary, and to build towns, and they should be taught to go
about clothed and to adopt our customs.
Source: "Journal of the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus, 1492-93" in E.G. Bourne, The Northmen, Columbus, and
Cabot, 985-1503. Edited by Edward Gaylord Bourne. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906, pp. 114, 145-146, 182

Discuss + Reflect

How does Christopher Columbus

characterize the native people he
encounters in the new world?
In your opinion, does this justify the way
these people are treated by Europeans,
now and in the future?
Reflection Question:

Assess the value of the word civilized at

this point in history. Consider the point of
view of both Europeans and Native
Americans.

European
Exploration

European Exploration

Objective: Evaluate the REASONS + JUSTIFICATIONS for

successful and unsuccessful European exploration and
colonization of the Americas.
Directions:
In your groups

READ, RESEARCH, + ANALYZE exploration and colonization of the

Americas by the Spanish, Portuguese, British, French and any
others.
Determine

WHY these groups sailed west

Determine IF they were successful or unsuccessful + WHY
Differentiate between REASONS + JUSTIFICATIONS
Be prepared to share your findings with the class

TAKE NOTES!

REFLECT!
Which

group was most successful in exploring + colonizing the Americas?

WHY?

Include

analysis of reasons vs. justifications for colonization

Annotating a Text
Circle key people, words, events, topics, etc.

WHAT and WHO

Square places and time periods

WHEN and WHERE

Underline details

EVIDENCE that supports writers thesis

WHY

Inthemargins Make connections, ask questions,

state opinion, put it in your own words

HOW does this connect to you or something you

already know?

Crosby The Columbian

Exchange

Key Concept 1.2: Contact among Europeans, Native

Americans, and Africans resulted in the Columbian Exchange
and significant social, cultural, and political changes on both
sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Objective: Evaluate the role of the Columbian Exchange in
establishing a balance of trade between Europe, the Americas,
and Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Directions: Read and ANNOTATE the Crosby document for the
following

Crosbys Argument
Impact of the Columbian Exchange
Old

+ New World
Interesting/New Perspectives + Point of View

Reasons vs. Justifications for Colonization

Future Implications Balance of Trade

Socratic Seminar

Purpose:

There are no right or wrong answers, as long as you can

prove your arguments with evidence from the text.
We will begin with an essential question to invite
thoughts, ideas and questions regarding topics

Guidelines:

Do not interrupt others

ONE PERSON per group should be speaking at one time
Be respectful and appropriate
Defend your argument but do not attack others
Listen to and build on the comments of others

Crosby The Columbian

Exchange

Objective: Evaluate the role of the Columbian

Exchange in establishing a balance of trade between
Europe, the Americas, and Africa in the 15th and 16th
centuries.
Discuss:

Crosbys Argument What is he trying to prove?

HOW

The Columbian Exchange Impact (Think back to WHAP!)

Was

does he prove it?

the impact of the Exchange equal in the Old/New Worlds?

Reason vs. Justification (earlier this week)

Colonization/Taking

Land/Labor/World Views

Future Implications
Native

Americans/Mercantilism/Triangular Trade/Slavery