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Unit 1 “Peopling America” Short-Answer Practice

Directions: Read each question carefully and write your responses in the corresponding boxes on the answer sheet.  

• Use  complete  sentences.    An  outline  or  bulleted  list  alone  is  not  acceptable.  • You  do  not  need  a  standard  thesis  for  the  answer.      • Label  your  responses  a,  b  and  c  where  appropriate.  • Only  information  within  the  box  will  be  graded.  

   1.    Using  your  knowledge  of  history  and  the  excerpts  above,  answer  parts  a,  b  and  c.    

A.) Briefly  explain  ONE  major  difference  between  the  two  excerpts.  B.) Briefly  explain  ONE  example  from  Winthrop’s  quote  that  depicts  17th  century  

Puritan  New  England.  C.) Briefly  explain  ONE  example  from  Hutchinson’s  quote  that  depicts  17th  

century  Puritan  New  England.   “For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection, we must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities for the supply of others' necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor, and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as His own people and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness, and truth then formerly we have been acquainted with.”

- John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 “They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.”

- Anne Hutchinson, Trial and Interrogation of Anne Hutchinson, 1637

 

     

   2.    Using  your  knowledge  of  history  and  the  maps  above,  answer  parts  a,  b  and  c.      

A.) Briefly  explain  ONE  element  of  society  in  1607  Jamestown  that  is  revealed  by  the  first  document.  

B.) Briefly  explain  ONE  element  of  society  in  1635  New  England  that  is  revealed  by  the  second  document.  

C.) Briefly  explain  how  differences  in  the  maps  account  for  ONE  major  difference  between  the  Chesapeake  and  New  England  colonial  regions.  

 

3.    United  States  historians  have  proposed  various  events  to  mark  the  beginning  of              American  identity.    

A.) Choose  ONE  of  the  events  listed  below,  and  explain  why  your  choice  best  represents  the  beginning  of  an  American  identity.    Provide  at  least  ONE  piece  of  evidence  to  support  your  explanation.    

v The  founding  of  Jamestown  in  1607.  v Signing  of  the  Mayflower  Compact  in  1620.  v Bacon’s  Rebellion  in  1676.  

 B.) Contrast  your  choice  against  ONE  of  the  other  options,  demonstrating  why  

that  option  is  not  as  good  as  your  choice.