Exam #1 STudy Guide Fall 2023 (3)

Exam #1 (Units 1-3) Study Guide • Use assigned readings, unit videos and quizzes, and lectures to study for the exam. These are the sources I will use to create the exam. Outside sources won’t help you adequately prepare for the ques@ons. • The ques@ons are designed to help you review material covered in the Introduc@on and Unit 1-3 Modules. • You should be able to answer ques@ons related to these on exam day. • Don’t try to memorize answers but instead learn the material so that you can apply your knowledge. • I encourage you to use a variety of tools (charts, @melines, etc.) to help you assess the ques@ons. Wri@ng out the answers to each is useful only to a point. • The exam will consist of 2 parts: Mul@ple choice + short iden@fica@ons. • Read the instruc@ons for each part. Purchase scantron 886-E at the campus bookstore & bring it with you to class on the day of the exam. ______________________________________________________________________________ I. Part I: Mul,ple choice Introduc,on Modules & Module I • What should a student consider before reading a document? • What things should a student consider as they read a document? • How did E.H. Carr approach the study of history and how does his approach differ from more tradi>onal/standard ones? • How have Americans tradi>onally viewed Columbus and the impact of his voyages on Europeans? Na>ve-Americans? The world? • How and why did these interpreta>ons emerge? • What is revisionist history? How do revisionist interpreta>ons of historical figures (like Columbus, the Founding Fathers, etc.) differ from tradi>onal ones? Unit 1 (Environmental History, Na,ve-American and European contact, conflicts, interac,ons with the Natural World) • When and out of what historical sources did Environmentalism and Environmental History emerge? • How did environmental historians: fare within History Departments • Theories (old & new) about the peopling of the Western Hemisphere • Of what did Native American life, culture, diversity and relations to and impact on the Natural world in North American consist before European contact (“Pre-Columbian”)? • The significance of Charles Mann’s book and using 1491 vs 1492 as a historical starting point for American history, • Identify the environmental origins of European exploration and colonization & explain how environmental explanations differ from traditional ones. • Describe European explorer and colonists’ perceptions of the natural world and their relationship to it in the 15 th & 16 th centuries. • How did Europeans perceive the New World, New World environments and Native-Americans? What impact did these perceptions and resulting actions have on each? • Explain the Columbian-Exchange : origins of the term, its nature, its cultural, economic and environmental consequences • What is Ecological imperialism & what impact did it have on Europeans, American colonists, Native Americans?

• the Pristine Myth : what it is, who created it and why, its environmental impact, how it shaped historical views about Native Americans and land ownership • European environmental practices, their impact on the North American environment as well as Native Americans Unit 2: Freedom in Colonial and Early America: Myths, Reali,es, Restric,ons • Historian Eric Foner’s views of American Freedom • The Enlightened origins of colonial and Early American ideas of freedom • Major enlightened philosophers o Their theories of human nature o Their theories regarding European social, poli@cal, economic, legal, and religious beliefs and ins@tu@ons o How their views challenged tradi@on views of these ins@tu@ons o The impact their theories had on ins@tu@onal and personal freedoms • Religious groups and diversity in colonial America and how these groups fared and why they fared as they did • The Puritans: their origins, religious views and religious communi@es in Colonial America • Who Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were, their fates, and what they reveal about colonial thought and freedoms • Indentured Servitude o Its character, who indentured servants were demographically, why they indentured themselves (origins), what their journey to colonial America was like, changes the ins@tu@on underwent between the 17 th and 18 th centuries o How indentured servitude compares to slavery and the middle passage (similari@es/dis@nc@ons) o Why it eventually declined in colonial America • Slavery: o The Slave Codes : of what did they consist, what impact did they have on slaves and slavery o The role of Bacon’s Rebellion in the ins@tu@onaliza@on of slavery o How Americans/the founding fathers jus@fied slavery o Racial founda@ons of slavery: when and why slavery became racially based in colonial America Na@ve-Americans: How Colonists/Early Americans jus@fied their treatment of them, land acquisi@ons Unit 3: The Founding Fathers and the Cons,tu,on: Myths and Reali,es • The origins of the Declara@on, Ar@cles, Cons@tu@on and Bill of Rights & how they are related to one another • Why the Founding Fathers replaced the Ar@cles? • The Founding Fathers & ConsDtuDon o Who they were o Tradi@onal and revisionist views of both o Fac@ons that emerged, issues that divided them o Compromises they made to ra@fy the Cons@tu@on (who benefifed, lost as a result?) o The basic nature of the government the Cons@tu@on created (branches of government, their rela@onship to one another) • The Bill of Rights o What are they? When and why were they created? o What they are designed to do