Learning Objectives:
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Explain the causes of the Columbian Exchange and its effect on Europe and the Americas during the period after 1492.

Explain how the growth of the Spanish Empire in North America shaped the development of social and economic structures over time.

Explain how and why European and Native American perspectives of others developed and changed over time.

Class Starter: What percentage of Native Americans is offended by Washington, D.C.’s NFL team being called the Redskins?

1.How accurate was your prediction?

2.Did the results surprise you?

3.Do you think the results would be similar if this question was posed 50 years ago?  400 years ago?

4.If there is such a consensus amongst American Indians, what makes this topic so controversial?

5.Should the Washington Redskins change their name?

6.Do you think the Washington Redskins will ever change their name?

Review

  • Find a partner
  • One person should face the board while the other person faces the back of the room
  • Jacobson will write 4 concepts on the board
  • The person facing the board will have one minute to explain all 4 concepts so their partner can guess each term
  • After the first round, switch spots and we will go again 

Word of the Day

contextualization
  • Define it
  • Give an example
  • Describe the context in which the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Japan.
  • Contextualize The Lion King.
In both the LEQ (15% of your AP exam grade) and the DBQ (25% of your AP exam grade), you are required to contextualize the prompt in the introduction paragraph.

Practice Questions

Grab an AMSCO review book (in the baskets) and open to p. 15.  All multiple-choice questions (40% of your AP exam grade) in this course will be in this format, containing a stimulus (excerpt, map, chart, cartoon, image) followed by 2-4 questions.  The answers to the questions are rarely contained in the stimulus; rather, it is designed to give you the context of the questions.

Take 3 minutes to read and respond to questions 1-2.

Group Quiz

We will first examine the 2019 APUSH SAQs (20% of your AP exam grade) to get an idea of the format of the questions.  All quizzes in this class will follow one of the formats.
  • ​Question 1: Secondary Source comparison
  • Question 2: Visual Analysis
  • Question 3: General Knowledge (choice between two questions)
We will then work at our tables to respond to an SAQ.  You are not permitted to write on the back of the page or in the margins!

European Settlement Patterns

What were the characteristics of Spanish, French, and English colonization with regard to where they settled, the purpose of their colonies, their strategies, etc.?

Columbian Exchange Essay Exercise

Explain how patterns of exchanging commodities, peoples, diseases, and ideas around the Atlantic World developed after European contact and shaped North American colonial-era societies.
  • Today we will first share some of our thesis statements.​  Do they address what the impact was (positive, negative)?
  • Then we will try writing some topic sentences, or sub-theses, that will introduce each paragraph.  These should clearly express the main idea of the paragraph (how commodities, people/ideas, or disease shaped North American colonial-era societies).
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Lecture: Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System

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HIPP Analysis: Valladolid Debate

Extended contact with Native Americans and Africans fostered a debate among European religious and political leaders about how non-Europeans should be treated, as well as evolving religious, cultural, and racial justifications for the subjugation of Africans and Native Americans. 
  • On one side, Bartolome de Las Casas argued that the Indians were completely human and morally equivalent to Europeans, so enslaving them was not justified.
  • On the other side, another priest, Juan Gines de Sepulveda, argued that Indians were less than human.  Hence, they benefitted from serving the Spaniards in the encomienda system.
For each document...
  1. Write a complete sentence describing the main idea of the document
  2. An extended analysis strategy in one or two complete sentences
  3. A second extended analysis strategy in one or two complete sentences
H- historical context
I- intended audience
P- point of view
P- purpose

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Closer: Explain how and why European and Native American perspectives of others developed and changed in the period.

  • Make a claim here!  1A   3A   3B
  • Support your claim with TWO pieces of accurate and relevant information.
  • Use reasoning to explain why your evidence supports your claim.

On Deck

Topic: Causation in Period 1
​Assignment: Complete topic sentences for Columbian Exchange essay exercise