APUSH notes
Readings: America’s History ch 1 pgs 7-38,
Other Sources: “Columbus Letter” (online), “Why History” by David McCullough
Outline:
A. Native American Experience
1. First Americans 2. Mayas and Aztecs 3. Indians of the North Hopewell, Pueblos, Mississippians, Eastern Woodland, matrilineal
B. European Society 1. European Peasant Society Peasants 2. Hierarchy and Authority Dower, primogeniture 3. Power of Religion Pagans, heresies
C. Europeans Create a Global World 1. Renaissance Changes Europe 1300-1500 Republics, civic humanism, ideology, guilds 2. West African Society and Slavery Vasco da Gama 3. Europeans Explore America Reconquista, Columbus
4. The Spanish Conquest Hernan Cortes, encomiendas, Columbian Exchange
D. Rise of Protestant England 1. Protestant Movement Indulgences, Calvinism, predestination, Anglicanism 2. Dutch and English Challenge Spain Outwork, mercantilism 3. Social Causes of English Expansion Price revolution, gentry, yeomen, enclosure acts, indentures
AP Guidelines covered in this unit:
1. Pre-Columbian Societies
Early inhabitants of the Americas
American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley
American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact
2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492–1690
First European contacts with American Indians
Spain’s empire in North America
A. Rival Imperial Models: Spain, France, and Holland
1. New Spain: Colonization and Conversion
Coronado, de Soto, St. Augustine, Franciscan Missions, polygamy, “wet heads”, Pueblo Revolt, Pope, Uprising of 1680 2. New France: Fur Traders and Missionaries
Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Quebec, indentured servitude, fur trade, Robert de La Salle, Louisiana, Five Nations of the Iroquois, Jesuits, “Black Robes”, Covenant Chain 3. New Netherland: Commerce
Henry Hudson, Fort Orange, Northwest Passage,
Other Sources: “Columbus Letter” (online), “Why History” by David McCullough
Outline:
A. Native American Experience
1. First Americans 2. Mayas and Aztecs 3. Indians of the North Hopewell, Pueblos, Mississippians, Eastern Woodland, matrilineal
B. European Society 1. European Peasant Society Peasants 2. Hierarchy and Authority Dower, primogeniture 3. Power of Religion Pagans, heresies
C. Europeans Create a Global World 1. Renaissance Changes Europe 1300-1500 Republics, civic humanism, ideology, guilds 2. West African Society and Slavery Vasco da Gama 3. Europeans Explore America Reconquista, Columbus
4. The Spanish Conquest Hernan Cortes, encomiendas, Columbian Exchange
D. Rise of Protestant England 1. Protestant Movement Indulgences, Calvinism, predestination, Anglicanism 2. Dutch and English Challenge Spain Outwork, mercantilism 3. Social Causes of English Expansion Price revolution, gentry, yeomen, enclosure acts, indentures
AP Guidelines covered in this unit:
1. Pre-Columbian Societies
Early inhabitants of the Americas
American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley
American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact
2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492–1690
First European contacts with American Indians
Spain’s empire in North America
A. Rival Imperial Models: Spain, France, and Holland
1. New Spain: Colonization and Conversion
Coronado, de Soto, St. Augustine, Franciscan Missions, polygamy, “wet heads”, Pueblo Revolt, Pope, Uprising of 1680 2. New France: Fur Traders and Missionaries
Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Quebec, indentured servitude, fur trade, Robert de La Salle, Louisiana, Five Nations of the Iroquois, Jesuits, “Black Robes”, Covenant Chain 3. New Netherland: Commerce
Henry Hudson, Fort Orange, Northwest Passage,