United States History Survey
Winter Quarter, 2022
Like the primary examination, it is a 200 level check; I’ll divide your rating by two to transform your grade to the 100 level scale.
Nonetheless, the remainder of the format is totally different from the primary examination. There are 5 obligatory essays, every price 40 factors. Merely full every essay. Whereas there isn’t a minimal or most size for an essay, each will most likely take you between one and two pages.
The books and courses to seek the advice of for these questions are
Shorto, Russell. The Island on the Heart of the World. This work takes benefit of lately re-discovered archives of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam to explain the multi-cultural foundations of the long run metropolis of New York.
Philbrick Nathaniel. Mayflower: Voyage, Group and Conflict. New York, New York: Penguin Press, 2020 Revised Version. Philbrick’s theme is the gradual souring of the connection between Indigenous People and the Plymouth Colony. He’s significantly difficult to the parable that a lasting concord between the 2 teams could also be symbolized by the primary Thanksgiving.
McLoughlin, William G. Rhode Island: A History. New York, New York: WW Norton, 1986. The foremost themes of American historical past as measured by means of the expertise of 1 small state.
Heffner, Richard D. and Alexander, editors. A Documentary History of the United States. Penguin USA, 2013 version. This can be a assortment of vital speeches, legal guidelines and pamphlets from American life because the institution of the Republic in 1776.
Examination Questions
1. There are three main colonies to contemplate on this a part of the course: Dutch New Netherland, Plymouth and Rhode Island. Evaluate the insurance policies of the three concerning non secular toleration and freedom of speech.
2. Clarify how the alliance between the Plymouth settlers and the Pokanokets was fashioned. How was it within the self-interest of every associate within the alliance? How did the alliance finally collapse? Focus on the rival visions of Josiah Winslow and Benjamin Church for changing the failed alliance. Why is Philbrick so disenchanted in Winslow’s imaginative and prescient?
Three. McLoughlin believes that Anne Hutchinson and the settlement she helped to present in Rhode Island had a theological outlook that produced good enterprise entrepreneurship and initiative. How so? Does this imply that Rhode Island rivalled New York State as a founding place for American enterprise?
four. Describe the visions of Adrian van Der Donck and Peter Stuyvesant for New Netherland. Why does Shorto imagine that every determine was important for the colony’s success, regardless of their sharp variations? How did the mixture of the 2 present the complexity of early fashionable Dutch tradition in its non secular, political and mental elements?
5. Contemplating the overseas coverage paperwork of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Heffner we see that every believed his insurance policies within the colonial previous of America. How properly did every of those two actually know that historical past? After which contemplate the controversy between Andrew Carnegie and Walt Whitman in regards to the arts: would which have been attainable with out the New Netherland legacy?
UCORE-1440-05
Inquiry Seminar within the Humanities
Fr. Thomas Murphy, S.J., Division of History.
Winter Quarter, 2015
Dialogue Matters for Class of Monday, February 9, 2015.
Ward, “Prologue: The River Highway,” pp. 1-12.
pp. 1-Three, in 1934, FDR resents lobbying for his eventual burial on the Washington Nationwide Cathedral and lays down directions for his burial to truly happen at his property “Springwood” in Hyde Park, New York alongside the Hudson River Valley; pp. Three-11, description of his precise funeral there after his loss of life in workplace in April, 1945; pp. 11-12, creator Ward’s conviction that whereas FDR’s persona may be very a lot a riddle, the place to start a seek for understanding him is that this very Hyde Park that meant a lot to him.
Ward, Chapter One, “Mr. James,” pp. 13-60.
pp. 13-16, description of how FDR’s father, James Roosevelt, often known as “Mr. James” to his servants, bought and reworked the property at Hyde Park alongside together with his first spouse Rebecca in 1867 following the burning down of their earlier Hudson Valley property, Mount Hope; pp. 16-21, creator Ward summarizes the household historical past of Mr. James’ department of the Roosevelts, describing their comparatively late arrival within the Hudson Valley in 1818, their household wealth rooted in Manhattan actual property, dry items and West Indian sugar, their lengthy document of intermarriage with highborn colonial households of each Dutch and English origin, the lifetime of the Federalist and Revolutionary Conflict period ancestor Isaac Roosevelt the Patriot, their consolation in genteel Knickerbocker society, their lack of consolation with the boisterous character of post-revolutionary NYC, the youthful, reclusive Isaac the physician and his marriage into the Yankee whaling and clipper ship dynasty the Aspinwalls’, whose ties to the Howland household introduces Mayflower ancestry into FDR’s family tree; pp. 21-23, early lifetime of Mr. James (whose father was Isaac the physician), together with his schooling because the tolerant Collegiate Faculty in Poughkeepsie, New York, the strict Yankee Hyde Faculty within the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, and the sensible, reform oriented Union Faculty in Schnectady, New York., his grand tour of the Center East and Europe with its alleged temporary flirtation with Garibaldi’s Italian freedom fighters, his time at Harvard Legislation Faculty and his early enterprise and authorized ventures; pp. 33-37, Mr. James’ first marriage to Rebecca Howland, his affiliation with the American minister to Nice Britain and future President James Buchanan, the beginning of FDR’s a lot older half brother “Rosie” Roosevelt, Mr. James hard-to-document and elusive function within the Civil Conflict and its comparability with the document of TR, Senior; pp.37-42, Mr. James’s second grand tour of Europe, proper after the Civil Conflict, exhibits how the household was able to being cosmopolitan and parochial at one and the identical time, in addition to revealing Mr. James sturdy want to mimic the approach to life and values of the English nation aristocracy; p 42-49, the household’s interval in residence in Dresden, Germany, with its friendship between Mr. James and Civil Conflict basic and defeated Democratic presidential nominee George B. McClellan, offers creator Ward a gap to debate Mr. James’ change from Whig to Democrat, which could have taken place when his pal Buchanan ran for President in 1856 and which reveals Mr. James’ choice for political moderation; pp. 49-54, Mr. James returns to NY State and exhibits an English choice for the countryside, concerning NYC as a mandatory evil for his enterprise ties however Springwood at Hyde Park as house; pp. 54-57, enterprise investments , touring Europe with the energetic TR clan, sickness and loss of life of first spouse Rebecca; pp. 57-60, Mr. James’ failed courtship of Bamie Roosevelt, the sister of future President TR, Jr. nonetheless results in Mittie Roosevelt, Bamie’s mom, introducing Mr. James to his future second spouse and FDR’s personal mom, Sara Delano, at Mittie’s NYC townhouse.
Ward, Chapter Two, “Algonac,” pp. 61-108.
pp. 61-62, introduction of Sara as regal, reserved and substantive, traits she demonstrated in a newsreel manufactured from her in Paris throughout her son’s Presidency; pp. 62-63, Sara visits Hyde Park quickly after assembly Mr. James, chaperoned by the ladies of the TR Roosevelt household; pp. 63-65, Mr. James overcomes objections in regards to the age distinction between him and Sara., who is similar age as his son, and persuades her demanding father Warren Delano II to allow them to marry in 1880; pp. 65-67, abstract of Delano household historical past going again to Plymouth Rock, the place French Huguenot Philippe de la Noye married an English Pilgrim within the 1630’s, with the clan finally settling in Fairhaven, Massachusetts (close to whaling port of New Bedford); pp. 67-70, when Warren II expressed an curiosity in a maritime profession his father, Warren I, discouraged really going to sea and pushed the enterprise aspect of issues, main the son into the China commerce; pp. 70-78, Warren II’s complicity within the opium commerce, which his descendants grew to become very secretive about; pp. 78-81, Warren II marries Catherine Robbins Lyman of the intellectually however not economically wealthy Lyman household of Northampton, Massachusetts, pal of John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson and first takes her to China, then to the Hudson Valley upon their return; pp. 82-83, Warren II hires architect Andrew Jackson Downing to design the brand new Delano household property at Algonac, pursuing that architect’s superb of “accessible excellent seclusion” and revealing a Delano want to seal issues off from the world when attainable; pp. 83-85, Delano kids are introduced up by no means to complain, by no means focus on unhealthy information, by no means show worry or alarm even when feeling these feelings, and to maintain meticulous information of the household historical past (for in any case, as Delanos they had been by nature vital); pp. 85-87, the xenophobia and intense clannishness on show at Fairhaven, the place Warren I is in residence on the ancestral house; pp. 87-90, the financial despair of the late 1850’s almost prices Warren II his fortune (endangering even his possession of Algonac) and forces him to return to China with out his household in 1860; pp. 92-94, after he recovers some fortune Warren II ship for the household and Sara spends three years of her childhood in China, however inside a household enclave for essentially the most half; pp. 94-97, after a interval in Fairhaven Sara is distributed to Europe and has lengthy stays in Dresden and Paris; pp. 97-102, life again at Algonac from 1870, the place Sara demonstrates an intense want to please her father; pp. 102-104, Sara’s failed relationship with Stanford White leaves her an unusually outdated single lady by the requirements of her time, and divulges that she has inherited each her mom’s want to please and her father’s fiercely impartial will, leaving her conflicted about her future; pp. 104-105, her final marriage to Mr. James could have mirrored her seeing some traits of her father in him, and likewise meant that she would proceed to reside within the Hudson Valley; pp. 105-108, in any case their early marriage confirmed that emotionally Sara remained very a lot a Delano (she would later insist that FDR was far more a Delano than a Roosevelt) and Mr. James discovered himself very a lot subsumed into the Delano clan, though we don’t actually know his response to that truth.
