History 3010

Exams
 

 

Exams will be made up of identification topics. You should write 2-3 paragraphs for each of 5 topics. Those 5 topics will be chosen randomly for you from the list of possible topics.

What is common to most identifications is the need to handle the basic "reportorial" questions: Who? What? When? Where? (Answers to these questions are usually presented in the first paragraph)  Why (Historically) Significant? (Answer this question in 2-3 additional paragraphs.)

  • Who is the person? What is the event? the place?
  • What did the person do?  What happened?
  • When did the person do it? When did the event occur? Context?
  • Where did the person do it?
  • Why is it significant? What were the consequences? What does it matter for our own times?
  • + How did the person do it?

 In trying to identify the significance of a person, place, or thing, step back and look at the "big picture": what distinguishes the item from others of its class? why is it important enough to appear on a test?

Your essays should demonstrate that you have read the assigned texts and films, listen to the presentations, and taken notes in class.

Exam One

covers materials from weeks 1-8

Exam Two

covers materials from weeks 9-14
  1. Metacom
  2. Pigs
  3. Columbia Exchange
  4. Pueblo Revolt
  5. Reciprocity
  6. Ohio Country
  7. Iroquois Confederacy
  8. Cherokee court cases
  9. Removal policy
  10. Tecumseh and  Tenskwatawa
  11. Treaties
  12. Neolin
  13. Captivity Narratives
  14. Trade Networks
  15. Pontiac
  1. Dawes Act (Allotment)
  2. Boarding schools
  3. "the Vanishing race"
  4. AIM (American Indian Movement)
  5. Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
  6. Geronimo
  7. IRA (Indian Reorganization Act
  8. ICC (Indian Claims Commission)
  9. Red progressives
  10. United States v. Sioux Nation
  11. Jursidiction
  12. Nevada v. Hicks
  13. Termination
  14. Winters v. U.S.