| APUSH
Concepts: Period 1/Chapter 1
Mr. Bugallo
Name:__________________
Date:___________
Period 1 & 2: 1491-1607 & 1607-1754
Chapter 1 New World Beginnings, 33,000B.C.E.-1769
Directions: This assignment is designed to link your textbook, The American Pageant, with the key concepts and historical thinking skills identified by the College Board. To ensure that you build a foundation for understanding the key concepts and historical thinking skills for the AP United States History course, you are required to construct a written response to the following analytical questions. As you read the assigned pages of your text, focus your study on the most important content within each chapter.
Be sure to include textual evidence to support your answers
Answer questions in the same box
All work must be your own
A digital copy is available on my website. Your answers will be written in the same boxes as the question.
Your answers should NOT be italicized, so as to differentiate them from the question
KEY CONCEPTS
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Text Pages
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Key Concept 1.1
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5-10
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How did Native populations in North America develop distinct and increasingly complex societies?
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8-10
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What were the effects of maize cultivation in present-day Mexico and the American Southwest?
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8-10
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Why did native populations in the Great Basin and western Great Plains develop mobile lifestyles?
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8-10
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What was the result of societies located in the Northeast, Mississippi River Valley, and along the Atlantic seaboard developing mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economies?
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8-10
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How did societies in the Northwest and present-day California support themselves?
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Text Pages
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Key Concept 1.2
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14-15; 18-19
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How did contact among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans result in the Columbian Exchange?
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10-11; 18-22
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What stimulated European nations’ efforts to explore and conquer the New World?
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16 and 22
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Explain why European attempts to change Native American beliefs and world-views led to resistance and conflict?
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16-22
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Why did Spanish colonial economies employ the encomienda system?
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18-19
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Explain how new sources of mineral wealth from the Americas supported the European shift from feudalism to capitalism?
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21
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How did the Spanish especially after the Pueblo Revolt begin to accommodate some aspects of Native culture?
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11-13; 14-15
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Explain how the relationship between European traders and West Africans groups who practiced slavery developed to forcibly extract slave labor for the Americas?
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AP HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS
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Contextualization
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Can you place the Columbian Exchange in a global context? That is, how do the interactions and adaptations among societies across the Atlantic fit into the larger story of world history? What evidence can you find in the chapter to support your position?
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Argumentation
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The authors contend that 1492 was a “fateful year” in North American history when “the land and the native peoples alike felt the full shock of the European ‘discovery.’” As you read this chapter, what relevant historical evidence can you find to support, modify, or refute this assertion?
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Periodization
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The authors of The American Pageant use 33,000 BCE and 1769 as the beginning and ending dates for “New World Beginnings,” but the first chronological period of study for the AP US History exam is from 1491 to 1607, with the understanding that 1491 is a symbolic date for pre-Columbian contacts in North America. As you read this assigned chapter, does 33,000 BCE, 1491, or some other date make the most sense to you as the beginning of this time period?
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