history

A.What do you hope to gain from this class(history)

B.Post a response to the following questions: Why should we study history? Why should we study American history?

C. How did the treatment of Americans by British officers and military during the French and Indian War contribute to simmering resentment against the mother country? What do the attitudes and behavior of the colonists during the war suggest?

D. It is sometimes observed that the roots of future wars lie in the results of past wars. Should the French and Indian War be considered one of the major causes of the American Revolution? Why or why not?

Second part (please highlight)

1. Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
a. Francisco Pizarro
b. Christopher Columbus
c. Hernán Cortés
d. John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)
e. Hernando de Soto
f. Jacques Cartier
g. Francisco Coronado

2. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
a. Treaty of Tordesillas
b. conquistadores
c. encomienda
d. Iroquois Confederacy
e. mestizos

3. Compare and contrast the Aztec and Inca civilizations of Central and South America, and describe the effect that European conquest had on them in both the short and long term.

4. What is your assessment of the Spanish impact on North American cultures? Was it basically positive or negative? Why?

5. Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
a. John Rolfe
b. Lord Baltimore
c. Sir Walter Raleigh
d. James Oglethorpe
e. John Smith
f. Roger Williams
g. Anne Hutchinson

6. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
a. joint-stock company
b. House of Burgesses
c. indentured servitude
d. Act of Toleration
e. Spanish Armada

7. What were the original motives and goals for the English colonization of North America? Which of those goals were achieved, and which failed?

8. What was the essential cause of the introduction of African slavery into North America? Why was slavery slow to take root in the seventeenth-century southern colonies except South Carolina?

9. How did English treatment of Indians differ from that of Spain?

10. What were the common features of the southern colonies, and in what ways did they differ from each other?

11. Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
a. William Bradford
b. Peter Stuyvesant
c. William Penn
d. John Winthrop
e. Henry Hudson
f. William Berkeley
g. Nathaniel Bacon

12. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
a. Pilgrims
b. New England Confederation (Dominion of New England)
c. Puritans
d. Dutch West India Company
e. salutary neglect
f. Quakers
g. Mayflower Compact
h. Fundamental Orders

13. How did the idea of the “Protestant ethic” shape the history of New England?

14. In what ways was the Mayflower Compact a genuine step toward self-government?

15. Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
a. Jonathan Edwards
b. George Whitefield
c. John Peter Zenger
d. Phillis Wheatley

16. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
a. headright system
b. “middle passage”
c. Massachusetts School Law of 1647
d. Salem witchcraft trials

17. How did the social order and ways of life differ between the southern and northern colonies?

18. Which do you think was the main cause of Bacon’s Rebellion: resentment felt by backcountry farmers, Governor Berkeley’s Indian policies, or the pressure of the tobacco economy? Justify your choice.

19. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
a. Pennsylvania Dutch
b. Great Awakening
c. triangular trade
d. Molasses Act
e. Poor Richard’s Almanac

20. How did the presence of so many non-English (Scottish and Irish) and non-British (German, Dutch, French, African, and so forth) settlers affect the character of Britain’s North American colonies? What were its particular effects on politics, culture, religion, and social structure?

21. What were the causes of the first religious “Great Awakening” in American history, and how did the “Great Awakening” affect colonial identity, education, and politics?

22. Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
a. Samuel Champlain
b. Edward Braddock
c. William Pitt
d. Pontiac

23. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
a. French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
b. Albany Congress
c. Battle of Quebec
d. Proclamation of 1763

24. Compare and contrast the French colonies in North America with their British and Spanish counterparts.

25. Why did Britain finally win the French and Indian War, and what role did the American colonists play in the victory?

26. How was the Proclamation of 1763 viewed by America, and how was it viewed by the British? What caused this difference in perception?

27. Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
a. Lord North
b. George Grenville
c. Samuel Adams
d. Charles Townshend
e. Crispus Attucks

28. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
a. mercantilism
b. Sons of Liberty
c. Townshend Acts
d. Quartering Act
e. Stamp Act
f. Intolerable Acts
g. Declaratory Act

29. Why did Britain seek tighter control and heavier taxation of its North American colonies after 1763? What methods of protest did the colonists use in their resistance to taxation? How did Britain respond to these protests?

30. Which of the following do you think was most responsible for the conflict between Britain and its American colonies: (A) the ineptness of parliamentary leadership, (B) the colonists’ militant anti-tax beliefs, (C) the high-handedness of King George III and his ministers, (D) the differences in ideology between Americans and the mother country, or (E) the effectiveness of American propagandists like Samuel Adams? Justify your choice.

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