Alabama Social Studies SS24.3.10
The Standard
Explain why interactions and conflicts occurred between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in the Southeast from 1519 to the early 1700s, including differing beliefs regarding culture, land use and ownership, religion, and trade.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why Europeans and Indigenous nations met in the Southeast and why some meetings led to conflict. They connect choices about land, customs, religion, and trade to each group's goals.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why people in an Indigenous town might resist a missionary's demand to change their religious practices. Given a map, the student can show how settlers' farms took land used by the town. The student can also explain why trade brought people together.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat Indigenous nations as one group or call unfenced hunting grounds empty land. Some think every meeting ended in a fight, or that Indigenous peoples had no religious beliefs before missionaries arrived.
How to Assess It
- Give students this prompt: An Indigenous town trades deerskins for metal tools, but settlers fence its hunting grounds and missionaries demand religious change. Name two causes of conflict and one reason the groups met.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a drawn map of a town, its hunting grounds, and a new settlers' farm; use sticky notes to mark contested land.
Read a short account of a Spanish mission, then ask: Why might town leaders resist a missionary's demand to change religious practices?
Sort cards showing a mission, a fenced field, and a deerskin trade by reason for contact or conflict; explain each choice.
Compare a farmers market purchase with a card showing deerskins traded for metal tools; ask what each side wanted and what might cause disagreement.
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Related Standards
- SS24.8.11c
Analyze the consequences of initial contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
- SS24.3.8
Describe Indigenous cultures, governments, and economies in the Southeast prior to European colonization.
- SS24.6.3a
Summarize how interactions between colonists and Indigenous peoples resulted in both conflict and cooperation, including economic and military alliances.
- SS24.4.1
Describe cooperation and conflict between the English, French, and Spanish colonists and Indigenous people over the fur trade, slave trade, and land claims.
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