Documenting United States History

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Preface vii

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Chapter 1 First Contacts 1

Seeking the Main Point 3

TOPIC I The Diverse Societies of North America 4

Document 1.1 Gold Frog Ornaments, Mixtec, Southern Mexico,

15th to 16th Century 4

Document 1.2 Ruins of the Pueblo Town of Cicuique, New Mexico,

16th Century 5

Document 1.3 Chief Powhatan’s Deerskin Cloak, Virginia, 1608 6

TOPIC II Change and Exchange 7

Document 1.4 Christopher Columbus, Journal, 1492 7

Document 1.5 Images of Hernán Cortés Assisted by the Tlaxcalan

People of Mexico, 1560 8

Applying AP® Historical Thinking Skills

nEW SkIll Continuity and Change over Time 9

TOPIC III Transatlantic Conquest 12

Document 1.6 Pope Paul III, Papal Bull: Sublimis Deus, 1537 12

Document 1.7 Bartolomé de las Casas, Brief Account of the

Destruction of the Indies, 1542 13

Document 1.8 Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Concerning the Just Causes

of the War against the Indians, 1547 14

Document 1.9 Transcript of the Spanish Trial in the Aftermath

of a Pueblo Revolt, 1598 15

Applying AP® Historical Thinking Skills

nEW SkIll Periodization 16

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