Learning Objectives:
Explain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America.
Explain the causes of exploration and conquest of the New World by various European nations.
Class Starter: What percentage of Americans say that Christopher Columbus should receive credit for discovering America?
1.How accurate was your prediction?
2.Identify a trend in the data.
3.What might be a cause of this trend?
4.How do you think the responses to this poll would have been different 50 years ago? 200 years ago?
5.How do you think a person’s race impacts their answer to the question?
6.Should Columbus Day be celebrated in the United States?
7.Should historic figures like Columbus be judged by the standards of conduct during the time they lived or by the standards of conduct today?
8.Should statues of Columbus and other European explorers be removed?
Ordeal by Cheque
This set of checks appeared in a magazine back in 1932 as a game to figure out the life story of a fictional man. By reading how he spent his money, provide a plausible biography of Lawrence Exeter, Sr.
Word of the Day
inference
- Define it
- Give an example
- Based on the data, make an inference about how someone trying to win the Democratic nomination for the presidency should handle a Columbus Day parade.
American Indian Culture
Compare and contrast the political, economic, and social structure of the Anasazi with the Cahokia and Powhatan nations during the Pre-Columbian era.
Use the information provided to make an inference about their culture.
Use the information provided to make an inference about their culture.
Lecture: European Exploration in the Americas
Sourcing Columbus
Using the document below, conduct a HIPP analysis for each of the following: historical context, intended audience, point of view, purpose. In many APUSH questions as well as the DBQ, you will be required to extend the analysis of a particular document using one of the these methods.
“On my arrival at the Indies I took by force from the first island I came to a few of the inhabitants, in order that they might learn our language and assist us, in our discoveries. We succeeded ere long in understanding one another, by signs and words, and I have them now with me, still thinking we have come from heaven, as I learn by much the conversation which I have had with them. This, they were the first to proclaim wherever we went, and the other natives would run from house to house, and from village to village, crying out “come see the men from heaven,” so that all the inhabitants, both men and women, having gathered confidence, hastened towards us, bringing victuals and drink, which they presented to us with a surprising good will…”
Letter from Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santangel, 1493
“On my arrival at the Indies I took by force from the first island I came to a few of the inhabitants, in order that they might learn our language and assist us, in our discoveries. We succeeded ere long in understanding one another, by signs and words, and I have them now with me, still thinking we have come from heaven, as I learn by much the conversation which I have had with them. This, they were the first to proclaim wherever we went, and the other natives would run from house to house, and from village to village, crying out “come see the men from heaven,” so that all the inhabitants, both men and women, having gathered confidence, hastened towards us, bringing victuals and drink, which they presented to us with a surprising good will…”
Letter from Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santangel, 1493
- Describe the historical context surrounding the event represented in the letter.
- What was Columbus's intended audience for the letter?
- What was the point of view of Columbus?
- What is the purpose of Columbus in writing this letter?
Columbian Exchange Essay Exercise
We are going to begin preparing to do essay writing. Today we'll gather background information, organize our evidence and make a claim to answer the following prompt:
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.
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.
Closer: Explain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America.
On Deck
Topics:
- Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
- Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
- Cultural Interactions between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
- Work on a thesis statement for the essay exercise
- Quiz- European exploration of North America (group)