Agenda 9/10

1. Review HW

• 1. Read "Ch. 1 - Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress" from "A People's History of the United States," and answer the following questions (in brief note form):

1. According to Zinn, what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of
    the United States?
2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11?
3. According to Zinn, how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books?
4. Why does Zinn dispute Henry Kissinger’s statement: "History is the memory
    of  states?"
5. What is Zinn’s basic criticism of historian Samuel Eliot Morison’s book,
    Christopher Columbus, Mariner?
6. What major issues does Bartolome de las Casas bring up regarding Spanish
    expeditions in the Caribbean?
7. Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to
    oppress indigenous peoples.
8. What was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians?
9. What was the significance of Quetzalcoatl?
10. Compare the strategies and motives underlying the conquest of the Aztecs by
    Cortez and the conquest of the Incas by Pizzaro.
11.What were the major causes of war between the Powhatans and the English
    settlers?
12. Discuss the significance of Powhatan’s statement, "Why will you take by force
    what you may have quietly by love?"
13. Explain Governor John Winthrop’s legal and biblical justification for seizing
    Indian land.
14. Explain the main tactic of warfare used by the English against the Indians.
15. According to Roger Williams, how did the English usually justify their attacks
    on the Indians?
16. What ultimately happened to the estimated 10 million Indians living in North
    America at the time of Columbus’ arrival? 

2.  Group Ch. 1 Quiz

3. Crash Course US History Episode 1 - The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards

• Crash Course note-sheet    

4. Perspectives on Columbus - analyzing primary and secondary sources using APHITS

HW: The first essay of the the year!

• Using your work from Summer Assignment #3 and your text book reading from Ch. 2, write a 3-4 page essay (typed) that compares the major similarities and differences between the New England and Southern (Chesapeake) colonies AND explains which of the two regions you would have preferred to have lived in. Be sure to support your claims with historical evidence!