Study questions: Below are questions that will you help you prepare for the first test. YOU MUST READ THE TEXT! A majority of the test questions come directly from a test bank written exclusively for the text.

IT WOULD HELP IF YOU DO THE LOOK AT THE STUDY RESOURCES FOR EACH CHAPTER, INCLUDING THE PRACTICE QUIZ.

1. Why and how did the first indigenous peoples of the Americas migrate?

2. Where did the majority of them settle and why?

3. .What are the characteristics of the following North American indigenous peoples: Northeast, Great Plains, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, Great Basin and California.

4. What were the motives for exploration for Spain, Portugal, Dutch, France and the English?

5. What aided exploration?

6. Why did it take so long for England to go out exploring?

7. Study your worksheet from the Guns, Germs and Steel video

8. Identify the following: anti-clericalism, protestantism, Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, Martin Luther, Bartolome De Las Casas, Tonalli

9. Be sure to brush up on Chapter I vocabulary words.

Chapter 2

1. What were some issues that Jamestown had in the first fifteen years of settlement?

2. What were the demographics of the Jamestown colony? The Puritan colony?

3. How did these demographics shape the growth of the colony?

4. Who were the Quakers? How did their belief system differ from the Puritans?

5. What made the Carolina colonies unique?

Brush up on Chapter II vocabularly words.

Chapter 3

1. What conditions explain the remarkable social stability of New England families?

2. Compare and contrast New England lifestyles with those in the Chesapeake region.

3. What factors contributed to political unrest in the Chesapeake?

4. What were some of the challenges of living in the Chesapeake Environment?

Brush up on chapter III vocabulary words.

Any questions? Come and see me.

History 201AA                           Reflection paper (50 pts.)
Fall, 2009                                    Date: 9//07/09

DUE DATE: A-L  - 10/05/09
                  M-Z - 11/02/09

For each weekday it is late I will deduct ten pots.

As I look around our classroom, I see all shapes, sizes, and colors.  We're like a United Nations!        

I have been assigning reflection papers for the past four years.  Not only is it a good way for me to get to know you better; it is a good way for you to get to know yourself better!  Sometimes the assignment may be on something we cover in class, other times it may be an outside assignment or an event that is happening on campus.  Learning doesn’t just take place in the classroom.

Format:
1. Double space and type your paper.
2. G# in the top right-hand corner.
3. Write as you would in essay form.
4. Please spell check and PROOF READ your paper.
5. This paper should be a minimum of four full pages.

Many of us are of mixed-race.  Choose two of the questions below and reflection on them.  Use your personal experiences to illustrate your answers.

1. Is it true that it’s “easier to be with your own kind.”   Is being with “your own kind” beneficial?  Why or why not?

 

1. In your opinion, what effects – both positive and negative - may an individual experience as a result of being having two cultural identities?

1. Discuss whether or not you have personally ever had to balance two different cultures (see below*) and what that experience was like. In this instance “culture” may defined as an ethnicity, blending different family structures/values, your work environment, etc.

 

* Now, perhaps you don’t fit into this category.  Frankly, there are very few of us who are all just one ethnicity.  However, you can apply religion, gender, sexual orientation, immigrant status, or disability to answer some of the above questions.  If you have any questions please see me.

                                             OR

The title is "This is Who I Am"

Here are some questions to help you reflect.  Please use at least three questions and incorporate three ideas at least into your essay.

1. Tell me about your background, where you are from, ethnic group, etc.
2. Tell me about your family.
3. What do you like about your culture?
4. What do you dislike?
5. If you are an immigrant, what were some of the issues/problems you had assimilating into American culture?
6. What would you like to change about yourself and why?
7. Is there anything about your culture you wish you could change and why?
8. What are some of your values and how do they tie into your culture?
9. What values, ideas do you feel has helped shaped your character?

                                    OR

Using this quote, discuss your immigrant experience.

         "For the America of freedom has been an America of sacrifice, and the cost of becoming American has been high.  For every freedom won, a tradition lost.  For every second generation assimilated, a first generation in one way or another spurned.  For the gains of goods and services, an identity lost, an uncertainty found.  The great immigration…created a scarred American soul." Thomas Wheeler, The Immigrant Experience, The Anguish of Becoming American