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The Impact of Early Contact: Trade and Epidemics
Explain the consequences of early European contact for Native populations, including fur trading and devastating foreign diseases.
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European Exploration of the Northeast
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Trace early European voyages across the Atlantic, evaluate explorers' motives and maps, and analyze first contacts with Indigenous peoples.
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Learning standards covered
3.T3.1Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeLocate North America, the Atlantic Ocean, and Europe on a map, explain how Native Peoples first came into contact with Europeans, and explain why Europeans in the 16th–17th centuries sailed westward across the Atlantic (e.g., to find new trade routes to Asia and new supplies of natural resources such as metals, timber, and fish).
3.T3.3Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeExplain how any one of the explorers described the Native Peoples and the new lands, and compare an early 17th century map of New England with a current one.