Historical Context
The main groups who populated the continent before the 1700s
What are Native Americans, European settlers/explorers, and African slaves?
The intended audience for Bradford's manuscript, which was never meant to be published
Who are Bradford's descendants?
This was the first difficulty Smith and his fellow colonists faced in Virginia.
What is starvation / lack of decent food and water (accept all viable answers)?
This is the real name of Bradford's Squanto.
What is Tisquantum?
Rodriguez's claim in the opening paragraph of his essay
What is Americans feel threatened by immigrants because they force them to question their own identity?
The two types of English Tan identifies in the beginning of her essay
What are standard English and family talk?
The goal of the English Mayflower passengers was to build this.
What is a shining city on a hill?
This man was thrown overboard in a storm but was saved, as Bradford saw it, by God's grace and later "became a profitable member both in church and commonwealth."
Who is John Howland?
This was the reason the first president of their colony was overthrown.
What is hiding/hording the best food and drink for himself?
The main reason that Mann gives to explain the dominance of the Hopewell culture in North America
What is religion?
The reason Mexicans are a "cosmic race"
What is they have been a multi-racial nation for centuries?
What Tan means by this sentence:
"You should know that my mother's expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands."
What is Tan's mother understands much more than she can express/speak?
It was believed that people who demonstrated self-reliance, personal responsibility, industriousness, temperance, and simplicity had received this.
What is God's grace?
The "proud and very profane young man" who had cursed the fair people of the Mayflower for being so sick and in the way met THIS end.
What is being struck with a "grievous disease" and dying by God's hand? (accept all viable answers)
These men were described as "being little beloved, of weak judgment in dangers, and less industry in peace."
Who are Ratcliffe and Martin (the second president and his vice president)
Mann uses anthropologist Kathleen J. Bragdon's statement that settlements were "joining and splitting like quicksilver" to support this idea
What is permanent, but with loosely knit populations? (accept all viable answers)
What Rodriguez means by “ASSIMILATION HAPPENS”
What is immigrants absorb the culture around them?
How Tan demonstrates that people who speak "limited English" are viewed by native English speakers as lower class or less important
What are the anecdotes of Tan speaking for her mother with the stock broker and the doctor?
While Native peoples respected and revered it, the Europeans worked to subdue it.
What is the land/nature?
When facing the Indians in a violent attack, Bradford and his companions regarded this fact as proof of God's providence.
What is they were not "hurt or hit" by the Indians' arrows? (Accept all viable answers)
Smith expresses he is in the right to tell the story of Captain Kendall's mutiny and execution for this reason.
What is "men of good judgment will conclude it were better their baseness should be manifest to the world" (i.e. it's better people know about bad behavior rather than covering it up)
The reason a pniese needed to have additional training
What is to be prepared to protect and to advise the sachem?
What Rodriguez suggests through the anecdote of the girl who identifies herself as “Blaxican"
What is traditional concepts of race no longer make sense / young people think beyond traditional concepts of race (accept all viable answers)
Tan poses the idea that this is the reason Asian American students are "steered" towards math and science careers
What is they may be limited by the broken English spoken in their homes?
The Puritan Ethic that remains in contemporary American society
What is the value of:
individual rights and responsibilities
equality of individuals
literacy and education
spiritual and worldly rewards for hard work
These are Bradford's purposes for writing this text.
What are to inform his descendants about their history and to persuade them to keep their Puritan faith?
The reasons why Smith claims he is the reason for Jamestown's success
He delegated jobs while Ratcliffe and Martin were too weakminded to make decisions; he explored the area and negotiated with the natives for provisions, he put an end to several attempts to return to England; he is the reason Pocahontas brought food to the settlement--accept all viable answers
Charles Mann's explicit and implicit purpose in writing this text
What is to show how the indigenous peoples were actually sophisticated cultures in order to change the way Americans regarded not only their past but how they respond to other cultures in the future? (accept all viable answers)
Rodriguez's purpose for his essay
What is to persuade his audience to define a person's identity by culture instead of by race (accept all viable answers)
Tan's purpose for writing "Mother Tongue"
What is to educate readers about limited-English speakers?