Assignment Instructions for Regions Unit

Read text Ch12 and Ch13. 

Be able to answer the reading questions Ch12 and Ch13.

Look at Secondary and Primary sources for the Regions Unit. Read those that interest you. Use these as sources for discussion posts, analytic paper or timeline topics.

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For each week, 

one identification or narrative  to the assignments forum on blackboard, and

at least 3 good messages a week to the discussion forum on blackboard.

Use the list below for ideas of things to research or choose your own topic

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By semester's end, you must turn in one analysis paper and one timeline. These can be about any topic related to US history up through the Civil War and Reconstruction (ca. 1870). You will have a midterm and a final examination.

Some Suggested Terms related to Regions for your weekly assignments

 

Definitions
Alta California	Mission Indians	promyshlenniki [fur traders]
Oregon Territory	Manifest destiny	Northwest Passage
Preemption Act	Homestead Act	Southern nationalists
Mason-Dixon line	Erie Canal	Oregon Trail
Sante Fe Trail	Potato famines	Free Soil movement
California Gold rush	Spanish and Mexican land grants	mayordomo
barrios and colonias	Forty-niners	prior appropriation law
homestead	land rush	Cheyenne
Arapahoe	Kiowa	Ute
Pueblo	Apache	Navajo
54 40 or fight	Acadian	Choose your own term & define it

 

Identifications
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina	Joaquín Murieta	Zorro
Junipero Serra	Bernardo de Gálvez	Presidio Line
Father Dominguez	Father Escalante	Goliad Massacre
Sam Houston	William Travis	Jim Bowie
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo	Sebastián Vizcaíno	Gaspar de Portolá,
Juan Bautista Alvarado	Helen Hunt Jackson	Fort Ross
Jedediah Strong Smith	John Augustus Sutter	John C. Frémont
John Jacob Astor	Sir Alexander Mackenzie	Kit Carson
The Hudson’s Bay Company	The North West Company	American Fur Company
Rocky Mountain Fur Company	James Bridger	Lord Gore
Jedediah Smith	Thomas Fitzpatrick	John Slidell
Panic of 1837	Great American Desert	Stony Mountains
Gen. Winfield Scott	Gen. Zachary Taylor	Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna
Moses Austin	Nicholas P. Trist	Benito Juárez
mission system	plantation legend	George Fitzhugh
Cornelius Vanderbilt	W. S. (Old Bill) Williams	Ceran St. Vrain.
John Colter	William Sublette	Hugh Glass
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Commodore Matthew Perry	Long’s expedition
Battle of San Jacinto	Pikes Peak or Bust	Choose your own and identify it

 

Narratives
Alamo	“kingdom” of New Helvetia	Donner Party
Bear Flag Republic	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	Fur Trade
The Utah War	Mountain Meadows Massacre	Lewis and Clark expedition
Northeast Boundary Dispute	Aroostook War	Bent's Fort
Mexican War	battle of Buena Vista	Battle of Veracruz
William Walker	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Pike's Expedition	Burr Conspiracy	Wilmot Proviso
Ostend Manifesto	Texas-British conspiracy theory	Choose your own and tell it

For assignment posts please format the subject with your last name, assignment type and week number, e.g. roebuck-narrative-week 4.