1. Period 1 - 1491 to 1607 AP U.S. History
Warm-UP
Period to 1607
AP U.S. History

2. Stimulus Based Questions
APUSH Exam
55 Stimulus Based Questions
55 Minutes
40% of the APUSH Exam
Students analyze historical texts, interpretations, and evidence.
Primary and secondary sources, images, graphs, and maps are included.

3. The process illustrated in the map above
a. triggered extensive demographic and social change.
b. ended American Indian resistance.
c. changed American Indian beliefs on the environment.
d. led to the development of a hunter–gatherer economy.

4. a. racially mix populations. b. trigger extensive demographic change.
“For I knew that they were a people who could be more easily freed and converted to our holy faith by love than by force, gave to some of them red caps, and glass beads to put round their necks, and many other things of little value, which gave them great pleasure, and made them so much our friends.…It appeared to me to be a race of people very poor in everything.…They have no iron, their darts being wands without iron, some of them having a fish’s tooth at the end….They should be good servants and intelligent, for I observed that they quickly took in what was said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians as it appeared to me that they had no religion.”
Christopher Columbus upon reaching the West Indies, 1492
After Columbus’s arrival in the West Indies, Spanish religion and Christian conversion were often used as a rationale to
a. racially mix populations.
b. trigger extensive demographic change.
c. transform the diverse environment.
d. justify the subjugation of American Indians.

5. Period 1 - 1491 to 1607 AP U.S. History
Pre-Contact America
Period to 1607
AP U.S. History

6. Think About It
Compare and contrast the development of Native civilizations based on regional environments.

7. Bering Sea Land Bridge Migration
Key Concepts 1.1.I.A, 1.1.I.B, 1.1.I.C, 1.1.I.D

8. Key Concepts 1.1.I.A, 1.1.I.B, 1.1.I.C, 1.1.I.D

9. Native Culture and Lifestyle
Nomadic OR Sedentary
Adapted to regional environment
Agricultural influence from Olmec/Mayans
“Three Sisters”
Politics and Economics
Tribal councils or Chiefs
Communal ownership; no sense of private property
Language
20 different language families
Algonquian, Siouan, Athabaskan
No written language
Family and Gender Roles
Kinship
Mostly matrilineal
Women shared in labor except hunting
Animism
Hunting and horticultural religions
Shaman
Spirit guide
Cahokia, c CE
Key Concepts 1.1.I.A, 1.1.I.B, 1.1.I.C, 1.1.I.D

10. Native Lifestyle and Culture Eastern Woodlands/Northeast
Geography
Rolling hills and dense forests
Tribes
Wampanoag
Iroquois Confederacy
Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onodagas, Seneca
Powhatan
Diet
Maize, beans, squash
Culture
Hunter-gatherers
Warriors
Matrilineal
Longhouses
Wampum

11. Native Lifestyle and Culture Eastern Woodlands/ Mississippian/Southeast
Geography
River systems
Tribes
Adena-Hopewell, Creek
Diet
Maize, fish, beans, squash
Culture
Earthwork pyramid mounds
Pottery, copper tools
Chiefdoms and trade networks
Social hierarchy and priesthood
Great Serpent Mount - Ohio
Kincaid - Illinois

12. Native Lifestyle and Culture Great Plains
Geography
Grasslands and prairies
Tribes
Sioux, Cheyenne, Apache
Diet
Buffalo
Culture
Nomadic
Tepees

13. Native Lifestyle and Culture Southwest
Geography
Arid, rocky, desert
Tribes
Anasazi, Pueblo, Hokokam
Diet
Maize, beans, squash
Culture
Irrigation systems
Cave and cliff dwellings

14. Native Lifestyle and Culture Pacific Northwest/California/ Great Basin
Geography
Cedar forests
Tribes
Pacific Northwest: Chinook
California/Great Basin: Nez Perce
Diet
Pacific Northwest: Fish (salmon)
California/Great Basin: Berries, nuts
Culture
Pacific Northwest
Plank homes
Totem poles
Canoes
California/Great Basin
Nomadic hunter-gatherers
Totem poles – Pacific Northwest