Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans 🌎

Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
Today is Constitution Day 📜
🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how and why European and Native American perspectives of others developed and changed in this period
⏰ What We Did
  • Compared the cultures of the Native Americans and the Europeans
  • Examined the use of religion to subjugate the Native Americans, as well as the methods used by the Native Americans to resist subjugation
  • Debated differing primary-source perspectives on the treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish
  • Explored the asiento system employed by the Spanish in the Americas
⚙️ Resources
📖 Corresponding Reading
  • Chapter 3, The American Yawp
💻 Homework
  •  Read and take notes on Chapter 3 in The American Yawp before M 22 Sep 2025