Part A Links

 

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What is self-testing and how can it help you?

Seeing How History Changes

Most links place historical facts in a table so you can easily compare them. You are not memorizing all of the facts placed in these tables.

 

You are using those facts to notice changes and patterns. To help you, most links provide tips on what to notice in the Purpose of This Link to Understand Facts and in the Using the Link to Think about History.

 

Make sure you also look at the map of these nation states’ colonies and at the definitions for words like feudalism and nation state.

·         Without answers for self-testing: What Were the Broad Patterns in Religion with Consequences on the English Colonies?
With answers for observing patterns:
Comparison with Answers. (Optional: content in the 4th column of the table as a hierarchical chart—something a student requested.)

Purpose of This Link to Understand Facts:

§  Notice the differences between the religions on their Major Beliefs and on their Organization.

§  Which religious groups go to the English colonies and to what part of those English colonies?


Using the Link to Think about History:

§  What does the comparison show you about why the United States did not have 1 religion as the Puritans planned with their theocracy and as the Anglicans set up with their established church?

§  What does the comparison start to show (more in Part B) you about why the United States not only does not have 1 religion, but also protects varied religions?

 

·         Background for colonization: Click here for sections of our textbook that cover attempts to establish feudalism and serfdom in the colonies, including English colonies

Without answers for self-testing: Major Issues in Colonization: Comparing Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands 
With answers for observing patterns:
Completed Table Comparing Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands

Purpose of This Link: We are not covering all of these things. You are looking for these patterns:

In economy and the shift from feudalism to the nation state:

·         Notice how feudalism is attempted by each of these nations in their colonies.

·         Notice how the Spanish begin the 1500s with gold and with great success, but notice how the shift in power is to nations with markets (furs and the slave trade).

·         Notice how the nation states shift to colonization.

In religion and the nation state:

·         Notice the role of religion in some of their relationships with the Native Americans (such as the Spanish and the French, but not so much with the English).

·         Notice the wars of religion—especially the Treaty of Westphalia and what that means for the nation-state

 

Using the Link to Think about History:

§  Why does the United States take the novel position for a nation state that it does not have 1 religion as its national religion?

§  What does the comparison show you about what nation state will win in North America? In the world (at least through 1914)?

·         Optional Reference
 
Native Americans (North and South) and African States: How European Colonization Differed

 

 

 

 

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