US History (Wednesday, February 1, 7th period)

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Josh was still bitching to himself about the State of the Union address when the history class began arriving.

"As promised," he said, passing around papers, "I have a test for you today. I know you're thrilled."

1. What did Christopher Columbus do that was so important?
2. Who was John Smith and why should you care? The John Smith we talked about in class, thanks. Not just any guy named John Smith.
3. Compare and contrast living situations in Virginia and Massachusetts at the time of Jamestown and the Pilgrims.
4. Which of the following states was not one of the original thirteen: Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or South Carolina?
5. What's that 36-word sentence in the Declaration of Independence that's so amazingly quotable?


"Question or concerns that aren't 'what's the answer to number 4?' Ask away."

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Re: Take the test (February 1, US History)

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

1. Columbus discovered America while trying to find a passage from Spain to the Indies and in turn began Europe's exploration and colonization of America. While mostly lots of bad things happened like stealing land, causing diseases, slavery and general jerkiness...he did give us an example of how not to handle first contact.

2. John Smith was one of the original settlers at Jamestown and he was the person who helped that colony survive. He showed he was really cool by trading with a local Native American tribe in order to keep his people fed. He also had some really mean, albeit effective ways to motivate the people of Jamestown that I think was the start of the republican's lack of social welfare programs in the US.

3. Both Virginia and Massachusetts had in common the fact that life there sucked and they both relied on the local tribes to help them out. In Virginia they dealt with malaria and slavery while Massachusetts dealt with cold winters and intolerance of religions other than their own.

4. Vermont

5. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government" but you're probably looking for this...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."