Exploration and Settlement

Download the module in its entirety here: Exploration and Early US Settlement, High School

Essential Question:
How can we define history for our classroom this year?

Sources:
Source A: The World as known in the time of Columbus
Source B: Howard Zinn. People’s History of the United States.  “Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress.”  1980 (access the online version of the chapter here)
Source C: Las Casas. History of the Indies 1542.
Source D: Bailey, Kennedy, and Cohen. The American Pageant, Chapter 1, p. 14 – 24.
Source E: Columbian Exchange Map
Source F: El Requerimiento
Source G: Declaration of Josephe, December 19, 1681