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Gilded Age DBQ
Growth vs. exploitation • 11 sections
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| Flashcard Category | What Students Practice | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| Native Societies & Adaptation | Pueblo, Cahokia, Iroquois Confederacy, Three Sisters agriculture, Plains mobility, Pacific Northwest fishing. | Prevents vague answers about Native societies and strengthens comparison. |
| Geography Decision Matrix | Water, soil, rivers, grasslands, coasts, settlement, mobility, and trade. | Turns geography into causation instead of background information. |
| Columbian Exchange | Disease, crops, animals, ecology, winners and losers, labor effects. | Builds complexity for one of Unit 1's most important topics. |
| Spanish Colonization & Labor Systems | Encomienda, missions, St. Augustine, Treaty of Tordesillas, conquest, silver, extraction. | Connects empire, religion, wealth, and coerced labor. |
| Chronology & Periodization | 1491, 1492, 1494, 1519-1521, 1565, 1607. | Helps students avoid wrong-era evidence. |
| Exam Skills | SAQ, DBQ, LEQ, MCQ, sourcing, comparison, causation, contextualization. | Shows how to use Unit 1 content on the actual exam. |
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