Historiography
The goal of purpose of history
What is "to tell a story"?
Even though most of what is thought about this woman is based on myth, she in fact married John Rolfe and was instrumental in the survival of the English settlement of Virginia
Who is Pocahontas?
Spain became the wealthiest nation in the world by 1650 due to their extraction of these TWO resources from the New World
What are gold and silver?
This middle-aged military man was not well received by his fellow travelers on the Virginia Company's first ship to the New World, but would later be essential to its survival with his leadership, grit, and courage in the face of difficult conditions and establishment of relations with the local Native Americans
Who is John Smith?
The French settled primarily in what is today Canada and quickly found trade in this commodity to be quite lucrative
What is fur?
The French & Indian War began with a skirmish at the Three Forks of the Ohio, the site of this present day major metropolitan area whose three professional sports franchises all wear black and gold
What is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
This "school" of historical interpretation offers a very romanticized story line and is most often found in elementary school level textbooks
What is Nationalist?
This individual was the last known survivor of the Massachusett tribe and instrumental in the survival of the Plimouth Colony
Who is Squanto (Tisquantum)?
This Spanish queen was especially zealous to see Christianity spread to the colonial empire
Who is Queen Isabella?
The first permanent English settlement was established here in 1607
Where is Jamestown, Virginia?
The French settlers of what is today Nova Scotia were forced to resettle by the English and moved to New Orleans, giving birth to this distinct culture
What is Cajun culture?
After coming under fire from the French, George Washington was forced to a hasty retreat and built this makeshift fort
What is Fort Necessity?
This "school" of historical interpretation stresses an economic or materialistic motive for actions and feels that the U.S. has been harmful in world affairs because of greed
What is Revisionist?
This Central American tribal empire was destroyed by Hernan Cortez in 1521
Who are the Aztecs?
The oldest permanent European settlement surviving today was established at this Florida site in 1565
Where is St. Augustine, Florida?
Workers arriving in the English colonies who received paid passage in return for seven years of labor were considered to be this
Who were indentured servants?
This explorer would sail the Great Lakes and Mississippi River claiming all land he traversed to be Louisiana in honor of his king
Who is Robert de LaSalle?
In 1763 this treaty was signed, ending the French and Indian War, and differently than most treaties of the era, stripped France of essentially all of its New World colonies
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This "school" of historical interpretation believes that the value of history is learning from the mistakes and building upon what works
What is Realist?
This Native American confederacy lived along the Great Lakes in upstate New York with the Mohawks as their warrior force
Who are the Iroquois?
This system was intended to create a more positive and healthy relationship between Spanish leaders and Native Americans, but instead resulted in abuse and slavery
What is the Encomienda System?
This group of religious pilgrims arriving on the Mayflower were seeking to establish communities for the godly in Plimoth in 1610
Who are Puritans (Separatists)?
The first permanent French colony established in North America in 1608
What is Quebec?
The Three Forks of the Ohio was this Native American tribe's land who would also go on to provide the majority of the French allied Native warrior force
Who are the Shawnee?
The New York Times sponsored curriculum on slavery that operates on the thesis that the United States' foundation was based on racism (not on the test)
What is the 1619 Project?
This tribal chief was so powerful that a confederacy of Native American tribes in what is today Virginia are known by his name
Who is Powhattan?
Pope Alexander VI drew a line across the Western Hemisphere to keep his two most profitable kingdoms, Spain and Portugal, from fighting in this edict
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Identify one factor leading to a spirit of independence and autonomy that was significant in the English colonial development in America
What is salutary neglect? Also acceptable would be either the Enlightenment, or the Great Awakening
These priests were sent by the French along with the soldiers and explorers and were considered to be the "Special Forces" of the Catholic Church
Who are Jesuits?
The French military commander of the war until his death at the Battle of Quebec in 1759
Who is the Marquis de Montcalm?