Period 1 APUSH: PowerPoints & Lectures // AP U.S. History

Want to take your PowerPoint / Google Slides Presentations and APUSH Lectures to the next level? 5 PowerPoints and corresponding organized Lecture Outlines aligned to 2019 APUSH / AP U.S. History Standards and Topics 1.1 - 1.6!

NEW: Google Slides Versions for ALL PowerPoints included as well!

This PowerPoint Deck contains lecture slides and lecture notes that align directly with AP US History Period 1, APUSH Topics 1.2 - 1.6 (1491-1607). I've worked to make this PowerPoint informative, engaging, eye-popping, and fun!

This package comes with 5 clearly labeled PowerPoint decks with a corresponding easy-to-follow and thoroughly researched lecture outline for each topic (5 pages total).

This PowerPoint deck is comprised of 5 separate lectures and PowerPoints, each sold separately as well:

• Topic 1.2 - Native American Societies (35 slides)
• Topic 1.3 - European Exploration (22 slides)
• Topic 1.4 - Columbian Exchange (15 slides)
• Topic 1.5 - New Spain, Encomienda, & Caste System (18 slides)
• Topic 1.6 - Cultural Interactions: Europeans, Native Americans, Africans (12 slides)

Includes:

1. 5 separate PowerPoint decks. One for each topic.
2. Lecture Outline: A 5-page organized lecture outline with added detail, 1 page per APUSH topic

Key Content covered is listed below. Note: I've erred on the side of detail in the PPTs and lectures, but the information is presented and organized in such a manner that it can be removed (or added!) as you see fit!

Topic 1.2: Native Americans

• Native American Early Migration (Bering Strait Land Bridge)
• Aztecs (Mexica)
• Inca Native Americans
• Great Plains Native Americans
• Pueblo Native Americans, American Southwest
• Iroquois Native Americans, Eastern Woodlands
• Impact of Geography on Native American Societies

Topic 1.3: European Exploration

• Changing European Context (Middle Ages > 16th Century)
• Protestant Reformation
• Spain, Portugal, France
• Christopher Columbus, motivations & voyages
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Hernan Cortes
• Francisco Pizarro
• 1513 Requerimiento
• Mercantilism
• Causes for Exploration & Conquest (new sources of wealth, economic & military competition, desire to spread Christianity)

Topic 1.4: Columbian Exchange

• Columbian Exchange
• Improvements in maritime technology (caravel, magnetic compass, sextant, astrolabe)
• Joint-stock companies
• Mercantilism
• Impacts of exchange on Europe, the Americas, and Africa

Topic 1.5: New Spain

• Encomienda system
• Repartimiento system
• Middle Passage
• African enslavement in the New World
• Caste system / casta system (peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, mulattos, zambos)

Topic 1.6: Cultural Interactions

• Competing world views
• The debate over native treatment
• Bartolome de las Casas
• Juan de Sepulveda