Extra Credit Opportunities

Revised October 16 - 5:30

  • Topic Sentence should answer following problem and then be backed with historical evidence - Paragraphs will be between 5-7 sentences
  • Answers can be found connected to www.americanhistory.nu web page
  • Please create a title for your research
  • Be sure to copy and paste web page source under your paragraph
  • Points will be decided based on stated opinion and quality of historical evidence
  • You can also receive extra credit for offerring new web pages which provided the answers


    • When/if you complete a historical paragraph, you may choose to research one of the remaining topics.  You can do a maximum of THREE extra credit topics.  Make sure you still enjoy your weekend.  None of this is required.
     

    Please send these paragraphs as attachments in an email to ejburnett@yahoo.com.  If you don't know how to do an attachment please ask me during class.
     

     

    2) Why did European exploration occur in the 15th and 16th century and not before?

    3) What were the European attitudes towards the environment and other peoples during the age of exploration?

    4) How did Columbus's description of the natives differ from his treatment?

    8) Why did the English wait so long after John Cabot's 1497-1498 exploration to establish colonies?

    9) Describe the relationships between parents and children, husband and wife, men and women during colonial times?

    10) What explains the relatively friendly relations between the colonists of Rhode Island and Pennslyvania and the Native Americans?

    11) Why were the small number of French settlers able to develop peaceful relations with the Native Americans?

    14) Why did Puritans object to the behavior of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams?

    15) Did Bacon's Rebellion lead to greater or less democracy in Virginia?

    17) Was the life of an indentured servant worth the possible freedom?

    18) Describe and analyze the laws enacted by Virginia and Maryland that helped make slavery a legal system in the South:

    19) Was it reasonable for the English to tax the colonists to help pay for a war fought in their defense?

    20) What rights, claimed by the Declaration of Independence to be the inalienable rights of all men, were denied to those held in slavery?  Could such contradictions be justified?

    21) Give a biographical sketch and judgement of the contributions of Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, Mercy Otis Warren, and Ebenezer MacIntosh.

    22) What was the impact of Lord Dunmore's proclamation?

    23) Describe the influence of revolutionary ideals on women and how they were constrained by social conventions of the 18th century?

    25) Were the ordinary farmers who followed Daniel Shays justified in their rebellion and to what extent did the grievances of the debtor class and the fears of the wealthy creditors contribute to the national call for a constitutional convention?

    27) Compare and analyze the major arguments for and against the Consitution of 1787 in leading Federalist and Anti-Federalist writings and major ratification debates.

    28) To what extent were the first two articles of the Northwest Ordinance a precursor to the Bill of Rights?