History

History

1.a)

The Pilgrims arrived in North America in 1620, but what seemed to be the attitude they had toward Native Americans by 1650?

What term did William Bradford use to refer to them (Native Americans)?

How did Bradford compare them to the wildlife of North America?

Who did Bradford and John Winthrop give credit for the Pilgrims’ survival in North America?

b)

In Benjamin Franklin’s 1767 letter to Lord Kames, where did he express a sense of American exceptionalism?

What was he (Franklin) saying the Stamp & Declaratory acts were making American colonists do?

How did he (Franklin) suggest the British treat the colonists? What effect would that have had on the colonists?

2-

a)

What did the Natives in the Council of 1793 think that whites should do so that there could be peace?

What uses did the Natives have for the land?

b)

In his 2nd inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson acknowledged that hunting was not good for Native Americans (saying “limits too narrow for the hunter’s state”). How did he (Jefferson) propose that “humanity” could help them (Native Americans)?

Who did Jefferson blame for the mistreatment the Indians (Native Americans) were experiencing? What is a quote that shows how he was placing the blame?

c)

How would Tecumseh have disagreed with what William Bradford said in 1650?

3-

a)

What was the “Gallo-Hispano-Indian omnium gatherum” to which Fisher Ames refered in his letter to Thomas Dwight? (The word Indian should be obvious. The word Hispano is a variation on the word Hispanic. What is Gallo? hint: It’s a variation on Gallic)

What did Ames think of the “gallo-Hispano-Indian omnium gatherum”?

b)

Which of the following reasons for the War of 1812 was James Madison thinking about in his 1812 State of the Union address when he referred to “the element which forms three-fourths of the globe we inhabit”? interference with trade, interference with navy, attacks from Indians, and/or US desire to annex Canada

4-

In your own words: What did Andrew Jackson think were the benefits of moving Indians onto reservations? What were the benefits for whites? What were the benefits for Indians?