1. Pre-Columbian Civilizations in America
Unit 1
AP U.S. History

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

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

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

5. 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
Gender Roles
Matrilineal
Women shared in labor except hunting
Animism
Shaman
Spirit guide
Cahokia, c CE
Key Concepts 1.1.I.A, 1.1.I.B, 1.1.I.C, 1.1.I.D

6. Native Lifestyle 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

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

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

9. 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

10. European Exploration and Settlement of America
AP U.S. History

11. Think About It
Explain the causes of European exploration and colonization in the Americas.
Compare and contrast the developments and lifestyle of the Spanish, French, and English colonies in the North America.

12. Europe Before Exploration
Renaissance
Technological innovations
Growth of Nation-States
England, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland
Protestant Reformation and Religious Wars
Lutheranism
Calvinism
Predestination
Church of England aka Anglican Church
Catholic Counter-Reformation
Key Concepts 1.2.I.A, 1.2.I.C

13. European Colonization
God
Glory
Gold
Spain
Christopher Columbus (1492)
France
Jacques Cartier (1534)
Dutch
Henry Hudson (1609)
England
Charter Colonies, Proprietary Colonies, Royal Colonies
Key Concepts 1.2.I.A, 1.2.I.C

14. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Key Concepts 1.2.I.A, 1.2.I.C

15. European Colonies
Key Concepts 1.2.I.A, 1.2.I.C

16. Columbian Exchange
Key Concepts 1.2.I.A, 1.2.I.B, 1.2.I.C, 1.2.II.A

17. Natives and Europeans
“Our fathers had plenty of deer and skins, our plains were full of deer, as also our woods, and of turkies, and our coves full of fish and fowl. But these English have gotten our land, they with scythes cut down the grass, and with axes fell the trees; their cows and horses eat the grass, and their hogs spoil our clam banks, and we shall all be starved.” – Miantonomi, Narragansett sachem, 1642.
Key Concepts 1.2.III.A, 1.2.III.B, 1.2.III.C

18. The Spanish in America Royal Colonies Relations with Natives Labor
Viceroys
Relations with Natives
Catholic Conversion and Missions
Pueblo Revolt (1680)
Labor
Encomienda System
Asiento System
Spanish Caste System
Key Concept 1.2.II.A, 1.2.II.B, 1.2.II.C, 1.2.II.D, 2.1.I.A

19. The Spanish in America The Vallodilid Controversy (1550-1551)
Bartoleme de las Casas – “A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies” (1542)
Juan Gines de Sepulveda – “Concerning the Just Causes of the War Against the Indians” (1547)
They are by nature the most humble, patient, and peaceable, holding no grudges, free from embroilments, neither excitable nor quarrelsome… They are also poor people, for they not only possess little but have no desire to possess worldly goods. For this reason they are not arrogant, embittered, or greedy... They are very clean in their person, with alert, intelligent minds, docile and open to doctrine, very apt to receive our holy Catholic faith... And once they begin to hear the tidings of the Faith, they are so insistent on knowing more and on taking the sacraments of the Church and on observing the divine cult that...the missionaries who are here need to be endowed by God with great patience in order to cope with such eagerness... Yet into this sheepfold, into this land of meek outcasts there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening beasts, wolves, tigers, or lions that had been starved for many days...”
The Spanish have a perfect right to rule these barbarians of the New World…who in prudence, skill, virtues, and humanity are as inferior to the Spanish as children to adults, or women to men, for there exists between the two as great a difference as...I might even say, between apes and men. ...you will barely find the vestiges of humanity, who not only do not possess any learning at all, but are not even literate or in possession of any monument to their history...;nor do they have written laws, but barbarian institutions and customs. Well, then, if we are dealing with virtue, what temperance or mercy can you expect from men who committed to all types of intemperance and base frivolity, and eat human flesh? And do not believe that before the arrival of the Christians they lived in that pacific kingdom of Saturn which the poets invented; for, on the contrary, they waged continual and ferocious war upon one another with sucj fierceness that they did not consider a victory at all worthwhile unless they sated their monstruous hunger with the flesh of their enemies...

20. The French in America Royal Colonies Jesuits and Catholic Conversion
Fur Trade
Coureurs de Bois (runner of the woods)
Native Relations
Trade Networks
Alliances
Intermarriage
Key Concepts 1.2.III.A, 1.2.III.B, 1.2.III.C, 2.1.I.B

21. The English in America Charters and Joint-Stock Companies
Population Growth
Indentured Servants
Native Relations
Early Native Assistance
Animosity and Exclusion
Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Pequot Wars ( )
King Philip’s War ( )
Key Concepts 1.2.III.A, 1.2.III.B, 1.2.III.C, 2.1.I.C

22. Smallpox and Natives c
Key Concept 1.2.II.A

23. Smallpox
Key Concept 1.2.II.A

24. Historiography ”American Indians: New Worlds in the Atlantic World”
Claudio Saunt – “Our Indians”: European Empires and the History of the Native American South (2007)
Colin G. Calloway – New Worlds for All (1997)
… Christianity was altering the symbolic superstructure of the Indians’ economy... God was above nature; the new religious teachings required no respect for animals and the natural world. Old hunting rituals continued, ”but they ceased to function as a restraining environmental ethic.” The way was open for Indian peoples to become commercial hunters, responding to the lure of the marketplace rather than listening to the spirits of the animals.
Although likely an ancient practice among the Choctaws, scalping became both more frequent and commercially motivated as a result of the French-English proxy war… the [French] governor of Louisiana was encouraging Choctaws to bring him the scalps of English-allied Indians... Before the arrival of the French, it is unlikely there was an Indian market for scalps, for the practice of scalping seems to have been linked to rites of passage rather than to commerce.