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

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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Jake is here ~~in the right class this time~~

Shep wanders in and flops down in a seat.

"So," he asks the prof, who seems to be preoccupied the SotU, "What do you think the fall out will be for those who applauded the voting down one of last year's big State of the Union ideas? I mean, I thought it was great, but I can't imagine he did."

Do you actually expect us to answer the questions, or can we do what we do with a lot of other profs and handwavey it and tell you our grade?

"Bush has very little political capital at the moment and absolutely none at all after the midterm elections," Josh said. "Right now I'd say the worse the Democrats could expect to get would be a sternly worded note. If the President expects even one of his bills to pass he needs to worry more about keeping his own party in line--and they didn't vote for his big plan last year either."

*is evil*

Please answer the questions. I'm not expecting hugely long essays by any means, but this is the big stuff that Josh mentioned.

And Wiki is your friend. And all of his classes are tagged--the answers to everything are in the last few class lectures :)

Piper signs in.

Blair signs in

1. What did Christopher Columbus do that was so important? He gets all the credit for discovering North America, even though it's been proven that others have discovered it before him. So really, he didn't do anything important. Unless being a "Navigational Moron" counts.

2. Who was John Smith and why should you care? While everyone else was lazy and stupid, John Smith is the reason the Jamestown settlement survived.

3. Compare and contrast living situations in Virginia and Massachusetts at the time of Jamestown and the Pilgrims. While virginia dealt with slavery and malaria, Massachussets had to deal with religious intolerance and cold, harsh winters.

4. Which of the following states was not one of the original thirteen: Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or South Carolina? Vermont.

5. What's that 36-word sentence in the Declaration of Independence that's so amazingly quotable? "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."

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."

Lana signs in.

1. What did Christopher Columbus do that was so important? *Technically*, he is credited with discovering North America - on his way to somewhere entirely different.

2. Who was John Smith and why should you care? John Smith is responsible for the survival of the Jamestown settlement.

3. Compare and contrast living situations in Virginia and Massachusetts at the time of Jamestown and the Pilgrims. Massachusetts - bitter winters and religious intolerance
Virgina - slavery and malaria

4. Which of the following states was not one of the original thirteen: Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or South Carolina? Vermont.

5. What's that 36-word sentence in the Declaration of Independence that's so amazingly quotable? "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."

Cally signs in, ta-da.

1. Christopher Columbus was the person who, while he didn't actually discover the American continent, was the person who gave it the big publicity so that the rest of the world actually cared about it and payed attention to its existence.
2. John Smith was, in the words of the teacher, fearless, reckless, and a jackass. However, he was especially important to the survival of Jamestown.
3. Varying degrees of ugh was really the contrast between Virginia and Massachussets. One had diseases, one had mean people and deathly cold. Not fun for anyone.
4. Vermont.
5. "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."

Veronica signs in

1. What did Christopher Columbus do that was so important? According to the history books, he discovered North America. But he was actually lost.

2. Who was John Smith and why should you care? He was the guy that worked his butt off so the Jamestown settlers wouldn't die.

3. Compare and contrast living situations in Virginia and Massachusetts at the time of Jamestown and the Pilgrims. Virgina had slavery and malaria. Massachusetts had religous intolerance and nasty weather.

4. Which of the following states was not one of the original thirteen: Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or South Carolina? Vermont.

5. What's that 36-word sentence in the Declaration of Independence that's so amazingly quotable? "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."

Quinn signs in.

1. What did Christopher Columbus do that was so important?

Discovered America by being an idiot, duh.

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.

Brad Pitt in that movie. I care because he's hot.

3. Compare and contrast living situations in Virginia and Massachusetts at the time of Jamestown and the Pilgrims.

Virginia was warm, Massachusetts was cold.

4. Which of the following states was not one of the original thirteen: Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or South Carolina?

South Carolina

5. What's that 36-word sentence in the Declaration of Independence that's so amazingly quotable?

Is this a trick question?

Chiana signs in.

1. What did Christopher Columbus do that was so important?

He got lost and discovered a land that that already had beings living there and that other beings had already "discovered." But it started colonization, so it was kinda a big deal.

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.

The only male in Jamestown who seemed to give a dren about actually surviving and didn't expect to trip over piles of gold.

3. Compare and contrast living situations in Virginia and Massachusetts at the time of Jamestown and the Pilgrims.

Death, disease, and slavery in one. Death, cold, and intolerance in the other. Pretty much death for everybody.

4. Which of the following states was not one of the original thirteen: Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or South Carolina?

Vermont

5. What's that 36-word sentence in the Declaration of Independence that's so amazingly quotable?

"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."

Harry signs in

1. He made a serious wrong turn somewhere, yet managed to profit from it. Um. He found America and started the whole colonization craze.

2. I bet that name was an alias. Also, he was clever and kept Jamestown alive. Not sure how clever he actually was, could be that the rest were morons.

3. Neither of them had coffee, so why anyone wanted to live in either is beyond me, especially since Virginia was all about the deceases and slavery and what have you, while Massachussetts wasn't all that open minded and the people were freezing a lot.

4. Vermont.

5. "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."

Chloe signs in.

1. Technically, he found the new world and lead to colonization of America, despite being an idiot who thought he'd hit India.
2. John Smith was the man pretty much responsible for keeping the citizens of Jamestown alive.
3. Virginia = slavery and disease and weather that was too hot
Massachusetts = less disease, which was made up for by the crazy strict religious people, and weather that was too cold.
4. Vermont.
5. 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.

1. Christopher Columbus gets credit for having fallen over a continent that people already lived on. He may - and I emphasize *may* - have been the first to bring word of it back to Europe, and therefore allow the start of trade and colonization (and the massacre of an entire indiginous people). Little kids are taught that he 'discovered' it - but that's kind of dumb considering people had already been living on it for several thousand years before he fell on it.

2. John Smith was the Viriginia ass-kicker. He made sure everyone in Jamestown did what needed to be done in order for the settlement to survive. You worked or you starved. Most people chose to work. Go figure.

3. Similarities: Everyone's life sucked.
Differences: Everyone's life sucked for different reasons. Virginia had malaria but warmer weather and slavery. Which was really more of a problem if you were a slave than if... you know, you weren't. Mass. had cold winters and some real pains in the ass if you didn't toe their relgious-party line.

4. Vermont. Woe be those who wanted real maple syrup for their waffles.

5. 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.

Seriously, did these guys not have English teachers back then. Someone really needed to have a word with them about run-ons.

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