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US HistoryAgenda:1. Introduction and Policies2. Set-up Notebook3. Group Hunt4. Unit 1 Introduction

Notebook

» Skip the first 3 pages» Number front and back 1-100» Table of Contents-

˃ 1. Technology cheat sheet˃ 2. Group Hunt Reflection˃ 3. Unit 1 Intro- KWL Colonial America˃ 4. Quads

Group Hunt

1. You have been placed in groups!2. Each group represents a country.3. Please select a group leader.4. Make your plan.5. Rules- no running, no snatching, no permanent

damage, no going through my desk!6. On your mark….. Get set…… go!

Reflection pg. 2

1. Were you excited to participate in the hunt? Why or Why not?

2. Would you have looked as hard as you did if there was more than one package of candy for everyone?

3. Did the fact there was only one “prize” make it more valuable?

4. How did you feel when you/someone else found the candy?

5. If several nations were looking for the same small amount of real gold, how might they try to claim it?

Future Questions

1. What riches were colonizers looking for in the New World?

2. Why were the explorers so driven to find wealth?

3. What do they do when someone tried to stand in their way?

4. What were the effects of their actions on others?

K-W-L

» KNOW- What do you remember from your World History class about Colonial America? What about the relationship between the Americas and the rest of the world?

» WANT- What do you want to know about colonial America?

Quads

Columbian Exchange Renaissance

Printing Press Protestant Reformation

In each box you will take notes and draw a picture! Make sure you have space!!!

» Columbian Exchange- after Columbus “discovered” the Americas, a large network was established exchanging goods between the Americas and the rest of the world.

Renaissance

» Period in world history where Europeans had a “rebirth” in interest in the physical world- a quest for knowledge

» Led to lots of art, writing, discoveries and exploration

Printing Press

» 1455- Movable printing press invented by Gutenberg

» By 1500- over 20 million books printed» Led to spread of ideas, newspapers, the

protestant reformation, maps being printed and available

Protestant Reformation

» Challenged the Roman Catholic church, started by Martin Luther, England breaks with Rome. The Anglican Church is created and many other Protestant faiths get started… people left Europe to spread these faiths to the new world

Pre-Columbian America

» Earliest people came on crude boats or across the Bering Isthmus

• When the first “explorers” arrived, they found a landscape already populated by 100’s of Independent tribes:• Mesoamerica-

Olmecs, Aztecs, Incas, Mayas

• Southwest- Hopi, Anasazi, Navajo, Ute

• Mississippi Valley- Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek

Earliest “Discoverers”

Vikings- Leif Ericsson- sailed to Greenland, Northern Canada around 1000 AD

Christopher Columbus- sailed for Spain, arrived in 1492

When worlds collide

» 3/5 of crops cultivated around world today are from the Americas

» Within 50 years of Spanish arrival in Hispaniola, the Taino natives decreased from 1 million people to 200 people

» Due mostly to diseases (smallpox)» Within the next two centuries 90% of Indian

population dead to disease» HOWEVER- the Columbian exchange:

˃ Improved diet in Europe- they got corn, tobacco, tomato, avocado˃ Americas- sent over cattle, horse, germs