Warm – Up August 30

1. Warm – Up August 30 • Who were the first Europeans to come to the Americas? • What year did they come?

2. 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

3. Columbian Exchange • The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa (new world and the old world)

5. Colombian Exchange

6. 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.

7. Push and Pull Factors Push: Conditions that drive people to leave their homes. Pull: Conditions that attract people to a new area.

8. Push and Pull Factors

16. 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

17. WORLD VIEW

18. MIGRATE

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. English • England experiencing religious and social reform. • Overpopulated. • Claim land for England, build colonies. • conflict with Native Americans over land.