Short-Answer Questions: 4 Questions / 45 Minutes

Snow Days!

Remember that you're responsible for keeping up with your reading during snow days, vacations, etc.  We should be finished with the first unit/section by next week, so make sure you're ready to move forward.  We may have a test on Unit 1 and probably will have a practice test for the APUSH Exam next Thursday or Friday.

The big test is coming the first week of May -- that's just over 3 months (including Spring Break).  We have the ENTIRE book to get through by then.

This is a college-level class where YOU are responsible for learning the content.

Part 1: Chapter 2: The Planting of English America

Remember: Answer these in your own words.  Copying verbatim from the text will not prepare you to take the AP exam.  

Looking Back at Chapter 1:

1. What impact did the cultivation of corn have on Native American tribes in Mexico and South America?
2. The text states; “No dense concentrations of population or complex nation-states comparable to the Aztec Empire existed in North America at the time of the European’s arrival.”  Why is this significant?
3. How did the Portuguese initiate the plantation system eventually found in the American South?
4. Explain the encomienda system.
5. Who were the conquistadores? 
1. What were their goals and aspirations? 
2. What was their impact?
3. How did they initiate a “new race” of mestizos
4. Draft a 1-2 paragraph summary explaining Cortez’ conquest of the Aztecs.  Be sure to include:
1. Malinche (Doña Marina)
2. Mocteczuma (Montezuma)
3. Quetzalcoatl
6. According to the authors, what is the “Black Legend?”  Do they give the impression that English colonists treated the Native Americans better or worse than the Spanish?  Explain your reasoning.

Chapter 2: The Planting of English America

Key Terms & People:  Explain the Historical Significance (Who, What, When, Where, Why)

• Mayflower Compact
• Massachusetts Bay Company
• Quakers
• Puritans
• Martin Luther
• John Calvin
• Anne Hutchinson
• Massasoit
• Duke of York
• William Penn

Questions:

1. How did the ascension of Elizabeth to the throne of England spawn English exploration and colonization of the Americas?
2. Why did the initial attempts of the English to colonize the Americas fail?
3. What were the difficulties faced by the colonists at Jamestown?
4. What was Powhatan’s Confederacy?  How did the Virginia Company deal with it?
5. How did European – Native American trade transform as the European population increased?
6. How did John Rolfe (Pocahontas’ husband) expand the tobacco trade?  How did this initiate slavery in the colonies?
7. Lord Baltimore founded the Maryland colony.
8. Who was he?  What were his motivations?  What were the implications of these motivations?
9. Why was North Carolina dubbed “a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit?”
10. How did the economic transformation of the English West Indies (Caribbean) into a predominantly sugar producing economy affect the southern American colonies?
11. What was the primary crop of the Carolina's.  What impact did this have on the Carolina colonies?
12. List several ways in which Georgia was different than the other 12 original colonies.
13. What was the significance of the Iroquois Confederacy?  

HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 3 for tomorrows assignment.

Pocahontas

Part 1: Chapter 1: New World Beginnings

Chapter 1: New World Beginnings (pp. 4-22)

After reading Chapter 1, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following items.  Remember you are explaining the Who, What, Where and When -- but also WHY it's historically significant.

1. Bering Sea Land Bridge
2. Incas
3. Aztecs
4. Pueblos
5. Nation-States
6. Mound Builders
7. Mississippian Cahokia
8. Anasazi
9. Three-sister farming
10. Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee
11. Iroquois, Hiawatha, Confederacy
12. Norse, L’Anse aux Meadows, Vinland
13. Crusaders
14. Muslim middlemen
15. Marco Polo
16. Caravel
17. Portuguese, Mali, West African Coast, slaves
18. Plantation system
19. Bartholomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama
20. Ferdinand of Aragon, Isabella of Castile, Moors
21. Christopher Columbus, Bahamas, Indians, Hispaniola
22. Columbian Exchange
23. Treaty of Tordesillas
24. Conquistadores
25. Vasco Nunez Balboa
26. Ferdinand Magellan
27. Juan Ponce de Leon
28. Francisco Coronado
29. Hernando de Soto
30. Francisco Pizarro
31. Capitalism
32. Encomienda
33. Bartolome de Las Casas
34. Hernan Cortes, Malinche, Tenochtitlan, Moctezuma, noche triste
35. Mestizos
36. Mexico City, Lima
37. Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot)
38. Jacques Cartier
39. St. Augustine
40. Don Juan de Onate, Battle of Acoma
41. Spanish missions, Pope’s Rebellion
42. Robert de La Salle
43. Texas, San Antonio, Alamo
44. California, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Father Junipero Serra
45. San Diego, Sonoma, “mission Indians”
46. Black Legend

Who Really Discovered America?

Today we will be viewing parts of the documentary, "Who Really Discovered America?"

While watching this documentary, I want you to keep notes on the various "candidates" for the first to arrive.  Of course we already know that people were already here -- and possibly even Europeans -- but keep some notes (including their names, locations and dates) on the people that are discussed.

Note details for each of the following discoveries:

• Native Americans
• Solutrean
• Japanese
• Hebrew
• Chinese
• Irish
• Polynesia
• Viking
• Welsh

Also make some notes on the archeological techniques used to support or investigate each discovery.

At the end of the video you can sit with another person and compare notes.  I want you to make sure you have dates because there will be a homework assignment.

HOMEWORK:

1. Use the dates in your notes to create a time line with notes (annotated) about the "Discovery of America".
2. Which of the theories has solid evidence to support it as a viable theory?
3. Why do you think there is continuing discussion/debate about the "discovery" of America?

Here are some examples of time line, although you can choose your format:

Finally, check out this clip demonstrating how similar art is throughout history.

The Human Family Tree (National Geographic)

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