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Unit 1

AP U.S. History Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607

4–6% of the multiple-choice section · about 8 class periods · 7 topics

Native American societies before European contact, European exploration, the Columbian Exchange and Spanish colonization.

Topics

  1. 1.1Contextualizing Period 1
  2. 1.2Native American Societies Before European Contact
  3. 1.3European Exploration in the Americas
  4. 1.4Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
  5. 1.5Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
  6. 1.6Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
  7. 1.7Causation in Period 1