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Native Americans in the United States

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CULTURAL CONFLICTS BETWEEN WHITE EUROPEANS AND NATIVE AMERICANS White Europeans: used the land for economic needs clearing the land, destroying hunting areas and fencing it off into private property dividing the land and selling it for monetary value. Vs. NATIVE AMERICANS: Relationship with environment as part of their religion Need to hunt for survival Ownership meant access to the things the land produced, not ownership of the land itself.
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AP Us History Chapter 12

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Copyright ? Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. CHAPTER 12 People and Communities in the North and West, 1830?1860 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After you have studied Chapter 12 in your textbook and worked through this study guide chapter, you should be able to: 1. Discuss the characteristics of rural life in American society from 1830 to 1860. 2. Examine the interest in and the emergence of utopian communities in American society during the early nineteenth century, and discuss the ideas associated with these communities. 3. Explain the emergence of California as the population center on the West Coast in the late 1840s and early 1850s, discuss the experiences of ?the forty-niners,? and explain the integration of California into the national market economy.

Chapter 1 Study Guide Questions

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AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS (3-11) 1. Identify and describe the elaborate native civilizations that developed in South and Central America and in Mexico. 2. Why did Europeans consider the Indians they met to be "savages," regardless of their cultural achievements? 3. Describe the way of life of the North American Indians-where they lived and how they supported themselves. 4. What were the three largest language groups, and where did their speakers live? 5. Describe the changes taking place among North American Indians during the century before Europeans arrived. EUROPE LOOKS WESTWARD (12-25) 6. Why was there little incentive for other Europeans to follow after the initial voyage to America by Norse sailors? 7. What changes stimulated the Europeans to look toward new lands?

New world beginnings

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Chapter 01 - New World Beginnings I. The Shaping of North America 1. Recorded history began 6,000 years ago. It was 500 years ago that Europeans set foot on the Americas to begin colonization 2. The theory of Pangaea exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. They then spread out as drifting islands. 3. Geologic forces of continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. 4. The Great Ice Age thrust down over North America & scoured the present day American Midwest. II. Peopling the Americas 1. The Land Bridge theory. o As the Great Ice Age diminished, so did the glaciers over North America. o The theory holds that a Land Bridge emerged linking Asia & North America across what is now known as the Bering

American Republic Notes

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1/14/13 11:19 PM It is unclear exactly how the west was settled Most likely humans came from northeast Asia during last ice age Most archeologists believe humans inhabited Americas by 13000 BCE Natives traveled through Rocky Mountains across the US Paleo-Indians: earliest Americans, established Native American life first. Traveled in bands through specific hunting areas Men hunted, women cooked and raised children Encountered other bands and exchanged goods, services, traditions, religion, etc. Reciprocity: the exchange of gifts and favors instead of one side expecting a profit and the other an expense These factors enabled a more general culture that was passed on to new bands. May have killed off many large animals due to hunting practices Archaic Societies:

Colombian Exchange

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Colombian exchange- The term used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, slaves, communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. destructive diseases, like smallpox depopulated many cultures, but new foods like corn boosted world populations. the council of the indies- the most important administrative section of the?Spanish Empire. it supervised all government ecclestical, , and commercial activity in the spanish colonies. The?encomienda system- a grant of authority over a population of amerindiands in spanish colonies. until the 1540s amerindian people in the spanish colonies were divided among the settlers and forced to provide them with labor or with textiles foods or other goods.

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