Key Concepts from the Curriculum Framework: As you read the chapter fill-in the column on the right
with facts/people/events that you could use to answer the how/why/significance of each learning
objective it the left-hand column.
Period 1: 1491-1607
Key Concept 1.1
Related Thematic Learning
Objectives (Focus of Exam
Questions)
MIG-2.0: Analyze causes of
internal migration and patterns
of settlement in what would
become the United States, and
explain how migration has
affected American life.
GEO-1.0: Explain how
geographic and environmental
factors shaped the development
of various communities, and
on analyze how competition for
Upper and debates over natural
resources have affected both
interactions among different
groups and the development of
government policies.
Key Concepts
Key Concept 1.1: As native populations
migrated and settled across the vast
expanse of North America over time, they
developed distinct and increasingly
complex societies by adapting to and
transforming their diverse environments.
1. Different native societies adapted to and
transformed their environments through
innovations in agriculture, resource use,
and social structure.
A. The spread of maize cultivation
from present-day Mexico northward
into the present-day American
Southwest and beyond supported
economic development, settlement,
advanced irrigation, and social
diversification among societies.
B. Societies responded to the aridity
of the Great Basin and the
grasslands of the western Great
Plains by developing largely mobile
lifestyles.
C. In the Northeast, the Mississippi
and along the Atlantic
River
seaboard some societies
developed mixed agricultural and
hunter-gatherer economies that
favored the development of
permanent villages.