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Cahokia
Pueblo Revolt of 1680
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European Settlement Patterns in North America
CHAPTER 1 – The Collision of Cultures
1. AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS
a. The Peoples of the Pre-contact Americas
b. The Growth of Civilizations: The South
c. The Civilizations of the North
d. Tribal Cultures
2. EUROPE LOOKS WESTWARD
a. Commerce and Nationalism
b. Christopher Columbus
c. The Conquistadores
d. Spanish America
e. Northern Outposts
f. The Empire at High Tide
g. Biological and Cultural Exchanges
h. Africa and America
i. The Commercial Incentive
j. The Religious Incentive
k. The English in Ireland
l. The French and the Dutch in America
m. The First English Settlements
n. Roanoke
3. THE ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH
Essential Terms
The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam.
- maize cultivation
- social diversification
- foraging and hunting
- Great Basin
- Great Plains
- hunter-gatherer economy
- Columbian Exchange
- demographic and social changes
- caste system
- West Africa
- Encomienda system
- capitalism
- cultural autonomy
- agricultural economy
- empire building
- white superiority
- slave labor
- feudalism
- political autonomy
FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.
- Archaic period
- Black Death
- Cahokia
- Christopher Columbus
- Clovis people
- conquistadores
- coureurs de bois
- Encomienda
- Jamestown
- matrilineal
- mercantilism
- mesoamericans
- mestizos
- Puritans
- Roanoke
- separatists
- Seigneuries
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Algonquian
- Juan Sepulveda
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- Mestizo
- Chinook
- potatoes
- corn
- silver
- cows
- smallpox
- horses
- Spanish Mission system
- Iroquois
- sugar
- Juan de Onate
- Tenochtitlan
- Pueblo
- Zambo
Primary Sources
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Secondary Sources
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Black Robe (1991)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
Christopher Columbus - The Discovery (1992)
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
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