1. What are the most important topics in Chapters 1 & 2?
How does what I read
“fit into” APUSH
Period 1 ( )?
Mrs. Sinacore, 2015

2. Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures

3. What was America like before Columbus?
Incans, Mayans, Aztecs in the South
Varied, complex and diverse civilizations in the North
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.

4. What was America like before Columbus?
Incans, Mayans, Aztecs in the South
Varied, complex and diverse civilizations in the North
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.

6. What was America like before Columbus?
Spread of maize impacted the PUEBLO and CHINOOK peoples
Societies in arid areas developed mobile lifestyles
In the northeast, the Mississippi River Valley, and along the Atlantic coast, Native American peoples developed mixed societies, like the IROQUOIS and ALGONQUIAN
Societies in the northwest and along the Pacific Coast, Native Americans were diverse – hunters and gatherers, settled in communities, used ocean resources

10. Why did Europeans begin to look westward?
Commerce
Nationalism
1492

12. How and why did Spain explore the world in the 1400s?
Columbus
Conquistadors
Spanish America
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.

13. How and why did Spain explore the world in the 1400s?
Columbus
Conquistadors
Spanish America – encomienda system, missions
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.

15. How were Africa and the “new world” connected?
West African Kingdoms
Slave Trade

16. Why and how did the English settle in North America?
Economic Motivations
Religious Motivations
England’s experiences with Ireland
Competition with the French and the Dutch
Roanoke
Charters

17. Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands

19. What was life like in the Chesapeake region?
Jamestown
Reorganization
Tobacco
Exchange
Maryland
Expansion of Virginia
Bacon’s Rebellion

21. What was life like in New England?
Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay
Expansion
Interaction with the Native Americans

24. How did colonization change after the restoration of the English Monarchy?
The English Civil War
The Carolinas
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

26. What other areas of the “new world” were colonized by Europeans?
The Caribbean
The Southwest
The Southeast
Georgia

29. How did the British Empire evolve ?
Reorganization
The Dominion of New England
The “Glorious Revolution”