Unit 1 - Time Period: 1491-1754
Explanation: The AP Exam is split into 9 time periods, and attention is given to each one. As Period 1, 1491-1607, is only 5% of the exam, it is combined with Period 2, 1607-1754.
Key Concepts in Period 1 & 2
Key Concept 1.1: As native populations migrated and settled across the vast expanse of North America over time, they developed distinct and increasingly complex societies by adapting to and transforming their diverse environments
Key Concept 1.2: Contact among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans resulted in the Columbian Exchange and significant social, cultural, and political changes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Key Concept 2.1: Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns, influenced by different imperial goals, cultures, and the varied North American environments where they settled, and they competed with each other and American Indians for resources.ires increased in size and contacts between regions intensified, human communities transformed their religious and ideological beliefs and practices.
Key Concept 2.2: The British colonies participated in political, social, cultural, and economic exchanges with Great Britain that encouraged both stronger bonds with Britain and resistance to Britain’s control.
Chapters
Period 1 Chapter 1 - New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1769
Chapter 2 - The Planting of English America 1500-1733
Period 2 Chapter 3 - Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700
Chapter 4 - American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607-1692
Chapter 5 - Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700-1775
Chapter 6 - The Duel for North America 1608-1763
