For High School Teachers

The scope of this exhibit focuses on a period in history that is included to the 9-12th grade requirements towards U.S and world history based upon the Minnesota State Social Studies Standards. In addition it can also serve as a helpful teaching tool for elective history classes such as AP European History, though due to the varied curriculum of those classes and their associated tests we do not have a list of published and met standards we can provide. For U.S. and World History, below is a list of which standards, substandards, and benchmarks this exhibit can be used as a learning tool for, and which specific pages within the exhibit are relevant to each category. All substrands fall within the History strand.

Substrand: World History

 9.4.3.10 Emergence of the First Global Age: 1450-1750

Benchmarks:

.2 social, political and economic changes in Europe that led to trans-oceanic exploration and colonization

           -English Presence in Africa

           -English Mercantilism and the Anglo-Dutch Wars

           -Trade in the Americas

           -Trade in the East Indies

.3 impacts of interactions and negotiations between African leaders and European traders on long-distance trade networks.

           -English Presence in Africa

           -Trade in the Americas

.6 forms of slavery and other non-free labor systems among African, European and Arab societies; analyze the causes and consequences of chattel slavery in the Atlantic

           -English Presence in Africa

Substrand: United States History

9.4.4.16 Colonization and Settlement: 1585-1763

Benchmarks:

.2 The motivations for exploration,  conquest and colonization in North America by different European nations.

            -English Presence in Africa

            -English Mercantilism and the Anglo-Dutch Wars

            -Trade in the Americas

            -Trade in the East Indies

.3 The varied, economic, political and religious motives of free and indentured European immigrants who settled in North America

             -Trade in the Americas

            -English Presence in Africa

.4 origin and growth of the Atlantic slave trade; its demographic, economic, and political impact on western Africa, Europe and the Americas, including the impact on enslaved Africans

            -Trade in the Americas

            -English Presence in Africa

.6 the development of regional economies and labor systems in the British North American colonies, including regional differences in the experiences of indentured servants, enslaved Africans and indigenous people

            -Trade in the Americas

            -English Presence in Africa

.7 The growth of colonial societies in British North America

            -Trade in the America

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