Alabama Social Studies SS24.6.3a
The Standard
- SS24.6.3
- Describe the effects of European expeditions and colonization on the economic, geographic, and social conditions of Indigenous peoples during the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries in North America.
Summarize how interactions between colonists and Indigenous peoples resulted in both conflict and cooperation, including economic and military alliances.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how colonists and Indigenous nations traded goods, made defense agreements, and fought over land and power. They identify the groups involved and explain why a relationship changed.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can describe trade and mutual defense between Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag. They can explain how growing land claims helped lead to war decades later.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat Indigenous peoples as one group that made the same choices. They may also assume that trade meant peace or that an alliance lasted forever.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to write two sentences: Why did the Wampanoag and Plymouth colonists agree to help each other in 1621, and why did fighting break out later?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a Wampanoag-Plymouth map and cards for the 1621 agreement, trade, land loss, and 1675 war to place in order.
Ask: Why might Ousamequin agree to mutual defense with Plymouth settlers, and why did cooperation not prevent later war?
Play a cause-and-effect match with cards for trade, mutual defense, expanding settlement, shared benefits, and conflict; have students explain each match.
Use a current tribal government website to find one community partnership; compare its goals with those of the 1621 agreement.
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