Discuss Pocahontas’ childhood.How did she fit into Powhatan’s larger family structure?How was she perceived by the English as opposed to her own people?How is her personality described?

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

Using Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, you will need to write an essay of at least 750 words answering ALL of the following questions using specific evidence from the book to support your answers fully.

1) Discuss Pocahontas’ childhood.How did she fit into Powhatan’s larger family structure?How was she perceived by the English as opposed to her own people?How is her personality described?

2) Discuss the first settlers who came to Jamestown. What was their purpose in moving there? What were their first interactions with Powhatan/ the Powhatan Confederacy like? How did the colonists/ Natives make use of each other- what were each group trying to get from the other? Would you characterize their relations as more positive or negative during this early period? Why?

3) Discuss John Smith. Why was he so important to Jamestown? What was his relationship like with Powhatan? What was his relationship with Pocahontas like? Did he and Pocahontas seem to view their relationship in the same way?

4) Discuss the relationship that Pocahontas had with John Rolfe. How does he (Rolfe) describe his feelings for her? Why does the author believe that Pocahontas wanted to be in the marriage even though we do not have her testimony? What motivations does Townsend think Pocahontas might have had when agreeing to marry Rolfe?

5) Why does the author believe that Pocahontas decided to go to London? What was her experience like there? How does she show her own agency while there? Do you think that the trip was what she and the other Natives was expecting of England? What do you think it showed them about the English/ colonists?

6) Discuss the relationship between Opechankeno and the colonists. What drove his anger towards them? How did this drive the decision towards the attack towards the colonists in 1622? Would you agree that this attack was ultimately beneficial towards the colonists? Why or why not?

Explain the usefulness of specific primary sources to the research project.

Historical Context and Introduction

Learning Objectives

Analyze secondary sources

Develop an introduction to the research project

Explain the usefulness of specific primary sources to the research project

Module at a Glance

This is the recommended plan for completing the reading assignments and activities within the module. Additional information can be found in the module Reading and Resources section and in the task list.

Review the module resources.
Submit Project 2: Historical Context and Introduction.

What are the book’s strengths and weaknesses.

Nature’s Metropolis

Write a scholarly review of Nature’s Metropolis. Be sure to evaluate Cronon’s argument(s), methodology, and use of primary sources. What are the book’s strengths and weaknesses (FYI: “The book is boring,” “the book is too long,” and/or “the book is difficult to read” are unacceptable weaknesses.)? Support your statements with specific evidence from the text.

Discuss whether you think that drug use and violence were a result of the boomtown,wide-open frontier aspect of the Comstock,or just the normal problems of a 19th-century city.

Reading Response

For this response, you will look at the seedier and more violent side of the Comstock.

Read the following 4 items (3 of the items are from chapter 4 of Uncovering Nevada’s Past ): “The Virginia Evening Chronicle reports on Opium on the Comstock”, the article about Julia Bulette at this link (Links to an external site.) “Julia Bulette’s Probate Records”, and “Mark Twain’s Description of the Execution of John Millian, 1868.”

In 250-500 words, discuss whether you think that drug use and violence were a result of the boomtown,wide-open frontier aspect of the Comstock,or just the normal problems of a 19th-century city. Is this view of women and girls as prostitutes, drug addicts, and owners of opium dens how women are usually portrayed during this period?

What kind of music is used in the movie’s soundtrack?Was it composed specifically for the film,or are classical or popular pieces used?

Cinematic Techniques: How the director makes you feel during the film, and how it influences our understanding of the film’s historical accuracy.

Is the film shot in black and white or color?

How does the filmmaker use lighting to convey a mood or to make a symbolic point?

How is one set of images juxtaposed with another to create an impression?

What kind of camera angles are used and why?

What kind of music is used in the movie’s soundtrack?Was it composed specifically for the film,or are classical or popular pieces used?

 

How was the Progressive Era a response to the problems of the Gilded Age?To what extent were the reforms successful?

The Progressive Era

Write a three-paragraph essay answering the following question:

How was the Progressive Era a response to the problems of the Gilded Age?To what extent were the reforms successful?

Give at least 3 examples of Gilded Age problems and the Progressive Era reforms for those problems.

Write 1 paragraph about each Gilded Age problem and its Progressive Era Reform. Decide if the reform was successful in solving the problem.

How does their interpretation of these events differ from modern interpretations of these events?

Legacies of the Renaissance and Reformation

In an essay of 1,000 words, explain the legacies of the European Renaissance and Reformation movements and assess the impact of these legacies on the 21st century. Include in your analysis a discussion of the historiography of the period (Refer to Burckhardt and Von Ranke).

How does their interpretation of these events differ from modern interpretations of these events?

Cite three to five relevant, scholarly sources in support of the content.

What was the first public meeting to discuss women’s rights in the United States?

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Chapter 19

What was the main purpose of the Civil Service?

Ida Tarbell exposed what?

Which demographic group did Progressives generally come from?

Which Progressive Era feminist sought women to compete on equal terms with men by freeing them for domestic chores?

How did W.E.B. Du Bois differ from Booker T. Washington?

Why did some women oppose women’s suffrage?Why is the Mann Act significant?

President Roosevelt’s intervention in the Pennsylvania coal strike suggested his willingness to do what?

Why is Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle important politically?

Which president introduced racial segregation to the federal government?

The results of the 1912 presidential election suggested Americans wanted what?

What were the strategies of NAWSA and the NWP? Which did Wilson ultimately support?

What are the cardinal virtues of the Cult of True Womanhood?

What was the first public meeting to discuss women’s rights in the United States?

 

Which groups were at the bottom of the racial hierarchies invented by biologists in the early 20th century?

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Chapter 17

How did the growth of manufacturing affect skilled tradesmen?

Which entertainment sites appealed to the working class?

Why did married women do “piecework” in their homes?

Why was there a high rate of child labor at the turn of the 20th century?

Jazz music developed from diverse musical traditions where?

Why did many Jews come to the U.S. from Russia?

Chapter 18

Where did the majority of immigrants come from around 1907?

Which groups were at the bottom of the racial hierarchies invented by biologists in the early 20th century?

What did eugenicists believe?

What did the devastating fires in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in cities such as Chicago lead to?

What was the Hull House and who founded it?

Why were immigrants loyal to party bosses and machine politicians?

How did African Americans respond to emancipation as news spread across the South?

Multiple choice questions

Be familiar with questions below will be on quiz

Gilded Age Anglo-Saxon Myth

Causes of Rapid Industrialization Eugenics

Andrew Carnegie Nativism

Social Darwinism Theodore Roosevelt

Homestead Strike Progressivism/Progressives

Gospel of Wealth Referendum, Recall, Initiative

Vertical Integration Muckrakers

DVD: Cities Cult of True Womanhood

New Immigration and Fears NAWSA and NWP

Jane Addams/Settlement Houses

Dillingham Commission/Restrictions

Chapter 14

How did African Americans respond to emancipation as news spread across the South?

How did southern whites respond to the end of the Civil War?

What event brought Reconstruction to an end?

Why did Johnson not punish former Confederate leaders for their role in causing the Civil War?

What was Lincoln’s plan to treat Confederate officials?

Chapter 15

What was Credit Mobilier?

The landscape of the Great Plains encouraged the establishment of what?

Economic expansion in the far West after the Civil War relied heavily on what?

What incited the Indian wars of the 1860s?

Senator Henry Dawes’ beliefs about Indian integration into white society failed to recognize what about Indian values?

Why did African American men choose to enlist in the U.S. Army to serve in the West?

Where did the Chisholm Trail start and end?

What were the conditions of the Homestead Act?

Why did frontier women participate in the temperance movement?

Why did the Mormon Church abandon polygamy?