Tag: History questions

1. How did the cultures and lifeways of various Native American groups differ, and what was the role of the natural environment in shaping diverse Native American societies?
2. One goal of European exploration was expanding trade routes. Discuss other motivations for European migration, particularly those that led to the desire to establish colonies in the Americas.
3. During the late fifteenth century, England was an unlikely competitor for New World colonies. How did political and religious conflicts contribute to England’s emergence as a major European power by the close of the sixteenth century?

Give a brief description of Reaganomics and Neoliberalism. 2. How does the neoliberal world view in the 1980s reflect that of the economic

elite during the Gilded Age of the 1880s? Where does social darwinism fall in this discussion?

1. Explain the causes and outcomes of the Glorious Revolution

2. Explain the significance of the Great Awakening

3. Describe the genesis, central ideas, and effects of the Enlightenment in British North America

4. Describe the consumer revolution and its effect on the life of the colonial gentry and other settlers

5. Describe political and social developments in the British colonies

6. Describe major conflicts between New England colonists and Native Americans, including Pequot and King Philip’s War

7. Explain the role of Bacon’s Rebellion in the rise of chattel slavery in Virginia

8. Explain the effects of the 1739 Stono Rebellion and the 1741 New York Conspiracy Trials

1.Explain the relationship of the history of the Western Civilization II timeline to historiography
2.Find three wars that occurred during the early periods of Western Civilization II timeline, and briefly describe what these wars were about
3. Identify a primary, secondary, and tertiary source documents for each of the three wars, and briefly explain what their importance is related to each of these three wars?

(1) If the Spanish and Portuguese colonial system was a brutal one in which native Americans and peoples of African descent were oppressed, why did colonialism last for so long?
(2) Discuss the causes of the independence movements in order to pinpoint the reason for the collapse of Spanish and Portuguese rule in most of Latin America.
(3) Who would you identify as the main leaders behind the independence movements in Spanish America? How did they manage to get “the people” behind their cause?