History 200 Fall 1998
The first examination will cover assigned readings through chapter 5 in the Faragher text and the first three chapters in the reader by Wheeler and Becker. You will be asked to write an extended essay which will be taken from the following list. I expect that your essay will reflect careful preparation including review of class notes and texts as well as efforts to draft satisfactory essays prior to examination day.
1. The environment is an important element in shaping human societies. The climate and topography of the different regions of North America affected the community development of American Indians. Give several specific examples of this by discussing different native societies encountered by the first Europeans in America.
2. Describe and compare the cultures and economies of early eighteenth century in the following regions: New France, the Spanish borderlands, New England, the Chesapeake, the Middle Atlantic, and the Lower South.
3. What is the Great Awakening and why is it important in American history? Give several reasons.
4. What was Puritanism, and why was John Winthrop so strongly opposed to separatism and antinomianism? What did the Puritans mean by a "due form of government" (sometimes called "the New England Way")?
5. Discuss the relationship of the institution of slavery to European expansion and to the idea of empire. How did slavery in the Thirteen Colonies and later in the United States differ from slavery in the West Indies or in South America? What did slavery contribute to the shape of American culture?
You will also have a group of multiple-choice questions designed to assure me that you have completed the assigned readings. Knowing something about the following topics will enable you to answer these questions correctly.
1. In what sense is history a science?
2. Frederick Jackson Turner
3. Fernand Braudel
4. North American climate
5. Mississippian
6. Pueblo
7. Aztecs
8. Four Corners
9. Iroquois nations
10. Algonquian
11. Treaty of Tordesillas
12. Bartolome de las Casas
13. Huguenot
14. Walter Raleigh
15. Acoma
16. Encomienda
17. Powhatan
18. John Smith
19. significance of tobacco
20. Mayflower Compact
21. Massachusetts Bay Charter
22. John Winthrop
23. Roger Williams
24. Anne Hutchinson
25. Pequot War
26. Restoration Colonies
27. New York
28. Quakers
29. Puritans
30. Anglicans
31. King Philip's War
32. Bacon's Rebellion
33. King William's War
34. West African society
35. 1619 in Virginia
36. Middle Passage
37. the case of John Castor
38. Mercantilism
39. Intercontinental wars of 1689-1763
40. San Xavier del Bac
41. ethnicity of colonial population
42. economic inequality in 18th century
43. Half-Way Covenant
44. Great Awakening
45. New Lights and Old Lights
46. Charles Chauncy
47. George Whitefield
48. Poor Richard's Almanac
49. Navigation Acts
50. War of Jenkins's Ear