Class 1

Question 1

T F: There’s such thing as objective history.

Answer 1

False, it’s a discipline of making choices

Question 2

American history focuses on what narrative?

Answer 2

teleological approach

Question 3

what’s the teleological approach?

Answer 3

View history through its ends. The past inevitably leads to the future

Question 4

importance of the Atlantic world?

Answer 4

Incorporating Atlantic frame work gives us a wider analysis of American influence in history.

Question 5

what are the courses themes?

Answer 5

natives and newcomers
slavery and labour
the atlantic world
inter-imperial rivalry
law and society
development of liberal political institutions
An american nation?

Question 6

what type of culture was the Mississippian’s?

Answer 6

“Mound builder”

Question 7

What are the 3 sisters?

Answer 7

Corn, Beans and Squash

Question 8

ex of semi-permanent settlement

Answer 8

cahokia

Question 9

we’re the mesoamerican civilizations unified nations?

Answer 9

no, but some cities had population of 50 000 - 100 000 people

Question 10

ex of mesoamerican civilizations

Answer 10

olmecs
mayans
aztecs (mexica)

Question 11

Early conflicts between New France and …

Answer 11

Iroquois (haudenosaunee)

Question 12

T F: The Great Peace of Montreal in 1701 has influenced policies of English settlers too.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Norse, Basques, Bretons, Normans and Portuguese peoples’ earliest contacts with the New World happened in …

Answer 13

Newfoundland (~1000 AD)

Question 14

two main diseases responsible of indigenous population decline

Answer 14

smallpox
cocolitzi

Question 15

what is considered as the first colonial conflict

Answer 15

Beaver wars

Question 16

What is Whiggish history?

Answer 16

An approach that sees history as one of progress, creation of freedom.

Question 17

Was is the history of Longue durée?

Answer 17

Focus on analysis of small things over large period of time

Question 18

Why is longue durée important?

Answer 18

It sheds light on continuity rather than big events individually.

Question 19

T or F: slave society followed the idea of race.

Answer 19

False, it is the other way around.

Question 20

Archaic period?

Answer 20

~10 000 BC - 1000 BC

Question 21

“woodland” periods?

Answer 21

~1000 BC - 1000 AD

Question 22

What was the main purpose of mounds

Answer 22

religious purposes

Question 23

Other than securing beaver, what was the main motive of the Beaver wars?

Answer 23

to avenge those who had fallen

Question 24

What is the alternate name of the Beaver wars?

Answer 24

The Mourning wars