History 3010 Exams

Exams will be made up of identification topics. You should write 2-3 paragraphs for each of 5 topics. Those 5 topics will be chosen randomly for you from the list of possible topics.

What is common to most identifications is the need to handle the basic "reportorial" questions: Who? What? When? Where? (Answers to these questions are usually presented in the first paragraph) Why (Historically) Significant? (Answer this question in 2-3 additional paragraphs.)

Who is the person? What is the event? the place?

What did the person do? What happened?

When did the person do it? When did the event occur? Context?

Where did the person do it?

Why is it significant? What were the consequences? What does it matter for our own times?

+ How did the person do it?

In trying to identify the significance of a person, place, or thing, step back and look at the "big picture": what distinguishes the item from others of its class? why is it important enough to appear on a test?

Your essays should demonstrate that you have worked with the assigned materials.

Exam One

Covers materials from weeks 1-7

Exam Two

covers materials from weeks 8-14

Metacom
Pigs
Columbian Exchange
Pueblo Revolt
Reciprocity
Ohio Country
Iroquois Confederacy
Cherokee court cases, 1830s
Removal policy
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa
Treaties
Neolin
Trade Networks
Osages
Quapahs

Trust doctrine
Dawes Act (Allotment)
Boarding schools
AIM (American Indian Movement)
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
Geronimo
IRA (Indian Reorganization Act
ICC (Indian Claims Commission)
Red progressives
Termination
Winters v. U.S.
Self-determination