Contents Period 1: 1491-1607 Europeans Make Claims in the Americas Module 1.1 * Contextualizing Period 1 AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Active Reading and Review Period 1: What''s Inside Module 1.2 Native American Societies Focus The Maya, Aztecs, and Incas AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Working with Evidence Source: Anonymous Mixtec artisan, Necklace with Gold Frog Ornaments, Aztec empire, fifteenth-sixteenth century. Native Cultures to the North AP® Working with Evidence Source: Pueblo "Cliff Palace" at Mesa Verde, Colorado Module 1.3 European Exploration in the Americas Focus Portugal and Spain Pursue Long-Distance Trade Europeans Cross the Atlantic AP® Working with Evidence Source: Christopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage, October 12, 1492 AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Identifying Claims and Evidence in Primary Sources Source: El Requerimiento, 1513 Module 1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest Focus The Columbian Exchange Transforms Four Continents AP® Working with Evidence Source: Illustration by the Spanish missionary Bernardino de Sahagún of an Aztec woman with smallpox AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Responding to a Short-Answer Question Module 1.5 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System Focus Spanish Incursions in the Americas AP® Working with Evidence Source: Anonymous artists, Hernán Cortés Assisted by the Tlaxcalan People of Mexico, 1560 Spain Establishes Colonial Rule AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Identifying Connections in Primary Sources Source: Las Castas, unknown artist, eighteenth century Module 1.6 Cultural Interactions among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans Focus European Encounters with West Africa Spain Debates the Human Costs of Colonization AP® Working with Evidence Source: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Catholic Dominican priest, Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, 1542 Source: Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Catholic priest and theologian, Concerning the Just Causes of the War against the Indians, 1547 Spain''s Global Empire Declines AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Answering Multiple-Choice Questions with a Primary Source Stimulus Module 1.

7 Causation in Period 1 AP® Skills Workshop: Writing Historically * Responding to a Short-Answer Question with a Primary Source Source: Unknown Spanish artist, sixteenth century Period 1 Review 1491-1607 Key Concepts and Events Key People Chronology Period 1 AP® Exam Practice Multiple-Choice Questions Short-Answer Questions Period 2: 1607-1754 Colonial America amid Global Change Module 2.1 Contextualizing Period 2 PERIOD 2: What''s Inside Module 2.2 European Colonization Focus The French Expand into North America The Dutch Expand into North America Spain''s Fragile North American Empire AP® Working with Evidence Source: King Philip IV of Spain, Letter to Don Luis Valdés, 1647 AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Analyzing Developments and Processes in Secondary Sources Source: Françoise Niellon, historian, "Quebec in the Time of Champlain," 2009 Module 2.3a The Regions of British Colonies: The South and the British West Indies Focus Economic Causes of English Colonization The English Establish Jamestown AP® Working with Evidence Source: Powhatan, Chief of Algonquian-Speaking Powhatan Confederation, Deerskin Cloak, c. 1608 Tobacco Fuels Growth in Virginia AP® Working with Evidence Source: John Martin, Jamestown councilman, The manner how to bring the Indians into subjugation, 1622 The Second Chesapeake Colony: Maryland Tobacco Economies, Class Rebellion, and the Emergence of Slavery AP® Working with Evidence Source: Virginia House of Burgesses, Selected Statutes Passed 1662-1669 Daily Life in the Colonies The British West Indies and South Atlantic Colonies The British West Indies Influence South Carolina South Carolina: Origins and Daily Life AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Analyzing Claims and Evidence in Secondary Sources Source: Cara Anzilotti, "Autonomy and the Female Planter in Colonial South Carolina," The Journal of Southern History, 1997 Module 2.3b The Regions of British Colonies: New England and the Middle Colonies Focus The Protestant Reformation Pilgrims Arrive in Massachusetts Puritans Form Communities in New England AP® Working with Evidence Source: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity,1630 Challenges Arise in the New England Colonies Conflicts in England Echo in the Colonies AP® Working with Evidence Source: John Locke, English political philosopher, Second Treatise on Civil Government, 1690 Conflict and Daily Life in Puritan New England The Middle Colonies Colonies Develop in New York and New Jersey Penn''s Goal of a Peaceable Kingdom Expansion and Conflict in Pennsylvania AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Additional Practice in Claims and Evidence in Secondary Sources Source: Elizabeth Reis, "The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England." The Journal of American History 15-15. Module 2.

4 The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Economy Focus Colonial Traders Join Global Networks Imperial Policies Focus on Profits AP® Working with Evidence Source: British Parliament, Navigation Act, 1660 Mercantilism Changes Colonial Societies AP® Skills Workshop: Writing Historically * Responding to a Short-Answer Question with a Secondary Source Module 2.5 Interactions between American Indians and Europeans Focus American Indians Resist European Intrusion European Rivalry and American Indian Alliances AP® Working with Evidence Source: Thomas Oliver, writing on behalf of the colonial government of Massachusetts, Letter to Queen Anne, 1708 Imperial Conflicts on the Southern Frontier AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Comparing Developments in Secondary Sources Source: Richard L. Haan. "The ''Trade Dos Not Flourish As Formerly'': The Ecological Origins of the Yamassee War of 1715," Ethnohistory, 1981 Source: William L. Ramsey, "''Something Cloudy in Their Looks'': The Origins of the Yamasee War Reconsidered" The Journal of American History, 2003 Module 2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies Focus The Human Cost of the Atlantic Slave Trade AP® Working with Evidence Source: King Charles II, Royal African Company Charter, 1672 The Rise of Slavery Reshapes Southern Colonial Society Africans Resist Enslavement AP® Working with Evidence Source: George Cato, great-great-grandson of Stono Rebellion leader Cato, Account of the Stono Rebellion, 1739, recording, 1937 AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Making Connections in Secondary Sources Source: Smith, Mark M. 2001. Remembering Mary, Shaping Revolt: Reconsidering the Stono Rebellion.

The Journal of Southern History. 67, no. 3: 513. Module 2.7 Colonial Society and Culture Focus Colonial Family Life and the Limits of Patriarchal Order Enlightenment and Awakening AP® Working with Evidence Source: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard''s Almanack, 1739 Dissent and Resistance Rise AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Answering Multiple-Choice Questions with a Secondary Source Stimulus Source: Indentured Servants and Enslaved People in Six Maryland Counties (1662-1717) (graph) Source: Wealth Inequality in Northern Cities, 1690-1775 (graph) Module 2.8 Comparison in Period 2 AP® Skills Workshop: Writing Historically * Responding to a Short-Answer Question with Two Secondary Sources Source: Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities, 1993 Source: T. H. Breen, The Marketplace of the Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, 2005 Source: E.

A. J. Johnson, "Some Evidence of Mercantilism in Massachusetts Bay," The New England Quarterly, 1928 Source: Ellen Newell, "Putting the ''Political'' Back in Political Economy (This Is Not Your Parents'' Mercantilism)," The William and Mary Quarterly, 2012 Period 2 Review 1607-1754 Key Concepts and Events Key People Chronology Period 2 AP® Exam Practice Multiple-Choice Questions Short-Answer Questions Period 3: 1754-1800 A Revolutionary Era Module 3.1 Contextualizing Period 3 PERIOD 3: What''s Inside Module 3.2 The Seven Years'' War Focus The Seven Years'' War Begins The Costs of Victory AP® Working with Evidence Source: North America before and after the French and Indian War Unresolved Issues in the Colonies AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Creating a Thesis Statement Module 3.3 Taxation without Representation Focus Intensifying Conflict and Resistance, 1763-1766 The Colonies Forge New Ties AP® Working with Evidence Source: Patrick Henry, Virginia Resolves, 1765 Ongoing Tension, 1767-1773 Widening Resistance, 1773-1774 AP® Working with Evidence Source: "Account of the Boston Tea Party," Massachusetts Gazette, 1773 AP® Skills Workshop: Thinking Historically * Additional Practice in Creating a Thesis Statement Module 3.4 Philosophical Foundations.