+1 862 207 3288 Sepulveda
– Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty, Seagull Edition, Volume 1 (ISBN: 9780393911909)
– Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (ISBN: 9780060838652)
Questions:
1. How does Sepulveda describe the relationship between Spaniards and Indians?
2. What did Sepulveda think of the Indians warfare practices?
3. What did the Indians lack of individual possessions and communal living “prove” to Sepulveda?
Questions:
1. What elements of Indian civilization does las Casas identify?
2. What proof of Indians’ ability to reason does las Casas present?
3. What Christian argument does las Casas use to make his point?
Synthetic Questions for both documents:
1. What does the debate between Sepulveda and las Casas reveal about the kind of “foundation”
being built during the Origins of the Nation? Be sure to give a full explanation
2. Given the debate in the documents, was race a point of unity or conflict? What are the
implications for the United States that will eventually be built on this foundation? Be sure to give a
full explanation.
Summary Question – At least two paragraphs in length.
1. What kind of national foundation was being built during the era of European exploration? How
do you think it will affect the political, economic, and social development of the nation?
A People’s History, chapter 1 (short brief answers)
1. How did Columbus describe his encounter with the Arawak Indians in his log?
2. What was Columbus looking for?
3. For Columbus, what role did God play in his voyage to the Americas?
4. Who was Las Casas? How does he describe the Indians’ economic system?
5. According to Zinn, what kind of “beginning” did Columbus’ arrival in the Americas represent?
6. How does Zinn describe the “ideological interest” of historians? What does he mean? view?
7. From whose viewpoint, does Zinn tell the story of American history?
8. According to Zinn, what can “creative history” accomplish?
9. How did John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, justify taking the Indians’
land?
10. By 1676 what happened to the Indian population in North America
11. What did Roger Williams say about “private property?
12. What kind of cultures had the various Indian tribes created all over the Americas? How did
their societies differ from the European colonists?
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