NATIVES AND EUROPEANS

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NATIVES AND EUROPEANS

• Unit IA
• AP U.S. History

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Bering Sea Land Bridge Migration
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Native Map of North America
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Native Culture and Lifestyle

• Nomadic OR Sedentary
• Gender Roles
• Women shared in labor except hunting

• Eastern Woodlands
• Hunting and Agriculture (fur, corn, beans,
  squash)
• Hopewell
• Iroquois
• Mohawks, Oneidas, Onodagas, Cayugas, Senecas
• Algonquian
• Mississippian
• Hunting and Agriculture
• Great Plains
• Hunting (buffalo)
• Sioux
• Southwest
• Agriculture (corn)
• Anasazi/Pueblo

Cahokia, c. 1100 CE
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Great Plains native lifestyle
Great Serpent Mount - Ohio
Cliff Palace Colorado
Kincaid - Illinois
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Europe Before Exploration

• Renaissance
• Technological innovations
• Growth of Nation-States
• England, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland
• Protestant Reformation and Religious Wars
• Lutheranism
• Calvinism
• Predestination
• Church of England aka Anglican Church
• Catholic Counter-Reformation

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European Colonization

• Spain
• Columbus in 1492
• Expansion of empire and Catholicism
• France
• Establish wealth
• Fur trade
• Dutch
• Establish wealth and trade
• Joint-stock companies
• England
• Charters and joint-stock companies
• Agricultural settlements
• Salutary/benign neglect

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Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
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European Colonies
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Columbian Exchange
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Natives and Europeans

• Spain
• Catholic conversion and Missions
• Encomienda system
• Asiento system
• Intermarriage
• Vallodilid Controversy (1550)
• Bartolome de las Casas
• New Laws
• Juan de Sepulveda
• France
• Trade relations
• Intermarriage
• Dutch
• Trade relations
• Intermarriage
• England
• Generally hostile and racist toward Natives

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Smallpox and Natives
c. 1575-1580
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Smallpox