Warm – Up August 30 Who were the first Europeans to come to the Americas? What year did they come?
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Warm – Up August 30
•Who were the first Europeans to come to the Americas?
•What year did they come?
European Colonization
•Competition between nations
•Mercantilism: engage in colonization to secure raw materials to keep mother country independent, colonies also provide a market for your manufactured goods.
•desire for wealth
•social and religious turmoil
•Northwest Passage
Columbian Exchange
•The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa (new world and the old world)
•In one clear sentence, state the main idea of each paragraph in your own words.
•After you have read the entire essay, in one clear sentence, state the main idea of the essay as a whole.
•Lastly, agree or disagree with the following statement. Use evidence from the readings to support your answer:
Columbian Exchange was a positive thing.
Push: Conditions that drive people to leave their homes.
Pull: Conditions that attract people to a new area.
Push and Pull Factors
Push and Pull Factors
Push Pull
climate better job
racial or ethnic pressure
closer to family
fire or flood damageless expensive
housinglack of employment
opportunitiescloser to school
climate
Spanish French English
push factors
pull factors
what they did when
they arrived
interaction with Native American
groups
Spanish French English
push factorsPolitical
persecution, militaristic society
pull factors influence, gold, riches, fame, glory
what they did when
they arrived
forced Native American groups to work as slaves on plantations,
mined silver
interaction with Native American
groups
brutal, forced labor, attacked native culture
Spanish French English
push factors militaristic society, second sons
lack of economic opportunity
pull factors influence, gold, riches, fame, glory
influence, new land, economic opportunity (fur
trade)
what they did when
they arrived
forced Native American groups to work as slaves on plantations,
mined silver
explored, fur trade
interaction with Native American
groups
brutal, forced labor, attacked native culture
intermarried, adopted ways of life, treated with
more respect, business partners
Spanish French English
push factors militaristic society, second sons
lack of economic opportunity
overpopulation, religious and
social conflict.
pull factors influence, gold, riches, fame, glory
influence, new land, economic
opportunity
influence, land, religious freedom,
social reform
what they did when
they arrived
forced Native American groups to work as slaves on plantations,
mined silver
explored, fur tradeexplored, built
colonies
interaction with Native American
groups
brutal, forced labor, attacked native culture
intermarried, adopted ways of life, treated with
more respect, business partners
some trade but eventually conflict
over land
Warm – Up Sept. 8
•Please define the following words and come up with an example of each in relation to our class discussions so far:
•World View
•Migrate
WORLD VIEWDefinition
World View: the perspective from which one sees and interprets the world or a collection of beliefs about life held by an individual or group..
Example from the unit
Native American groups first living on the land that would become the United States viewed the world differently than the European groups they would come into contact with.
Historical Significance
Because Native Americans and European cultures had different world views, these views often conflicted with each other leading to cultural conflict
General Significance
People or groups who view the world from different perspectives are often in conflict with one another, even today.
MIGRATEDefinition
Migrate: to move from one area or country to another
Example from the unit
Spanish, French, and English settlers migrated from their home countries to the Americas
Historical Significance
European migration to the Americas caused a decline in the Native population, expanded slavery of Africans, and increased the influence of Europe in the Americas
General Significance
Overtime there has been groups of people migrating for different reasons. We still have people migrating to the U.S. today in search of opportunities.
Spanish•Columbus arrived in 1492.
•1500s Spanish explored the Southwest United States in such of wealth.
•militaristic society
•Spanish society first sons inherited everything. What are the second sons suppose to do?
•brutal treatment of Native Americans.
French•Arrive, explore
•Become heavily involved in the early fur trade.
•Native Americans were source of furs.
•used good relationships with Native Americans to get furs.
•Intermarried with Native Americans, adopted their ways of life.