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Do now: Write a min of 6 lines. What do you know
about the events that took place on 9-11-01? What was
America’s response? What impact did 9-11-01 have on
American culture?
Today, I will be able to identify and discuss the events of
9-11-01 and how they impacted American culture.
Tomorrow, you’ll be allowed to retake your 50 states if
you weren’t happy with your results, but we will be
moving forward in class. * (take notes and identify
elements of culture)
Homework: Finish reading about the Native American
cultural zones.
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What defines a group’s way of life.
Social Organization: Loosely defined social classes,
low, middle, high
 Customs and Traditions: Hot Dogs and Fireworks on
the 4th of July. Remembrance of 9-11-01
 Religion: Judeo-Christian roots, but freedom to practice
mostly anything.
 Language: Not official  English
 Arts and Literature: Highly valued
 Forms of government: Currently, democratic-republic,
originally republic
 Economic systems: mixed (parts socialism and free
enterprise)
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Make sure your name is on the paper.
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Level 0 when the test is out (it’ll be assumed that you’re cheating)
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Don’t help people cheat (cover up your work)
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Eyes on your paper (your cheating)
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Cheating will result in a 0 and a call home!
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Don’t leave anything blank, don’t quit, everyone has a
brain…Use it!!!!
Once your test is completed: Review yesterday’s notes
on elements of culture, last night’s reading (identify the
elements of cultures for the arctic and subarctic), and
begin reading: Northeast, Southeast, and Plains (identify
the elements of cultures).
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These people were heavily influenced by their
environment.
Eskimo-Aleut language family
Population small and scattered
Inuitsnomadic hunters
Aleuts settled, small fishing villages
Homes made of sod/timber, in the extreme
north Ice.
Seal and otter skins were well insolated and
waterproof.
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Swampy, piney forests colder region inland
Alaska and Canada.
Western: Athabaskan speakers
Eastern: Algonquian speakers
Used toboggans, snowshoes, and lightweight
canoes for travel.
Sparsely populated
Small family groups hunted caribou lived in
easy to move tents. Also lived in underground
dugouts.
Europeans interaction: economic/cultural shift
from subsistence living to profit living
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Northeast cultural area
Iroquoian speakers lived along inland rivers and
lakes. Enjoyed politically stable villages and were
more populated than the Algonquian. Iroquois
were more warlike than the Algonquian.
Algonquian lived in small farming and fishing
villages along the ocean.
Both were eventually forced to pick sides
regarding a conflict between the British and
French.
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Entrenched agrarian culture.
Organized social structure around hamlets
(small ceremonial and market villages)
Contained the 5 “civilized” tribes.
Eventually forced to relocate throughout the
1830s, regardless of how well they assimilated
to American culture.
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Several languages were spoken in this region.
Settled hunters and gatherers (that’s a lot of
‘ers’
After European contact and the introduction of
horses this group becomes more nomadic.
Traded goods with Europeans and Americans,
rapid loss of culture.
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Population varied from sedentary farmers to
nomadic forgers/raiders.
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Sedentary populations made sturdy pueblos
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Nomadic tribes made hogans
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Shoshonean and Uto-Aztecan dialects were
spoken in this region.
Mobile society, struggled obtaining permanent
sustenance.
Mobile homes
Leadership/social groups were very informal
and fluid.
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Heavily populated (hey just like today!)
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>200 dialects spoken in this region.
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Linguistic landscape incredibly complex, more so
than even Europe.
Not much farming, small family-based bands of
hunter-gatherers “tribelets”
Generally peaceful