1) Select three “dates/events/concepts/whatever” that you feel are the most significant in the “evolution of the geography of North America.” List them and include a brief explanatory sentence for each. listed below
2) Write three well-crafted essays, one on each of your selections, and each a minimum of 350 words in length. Your essays should summarize the major historical facts of your selection, and should make clear that this is all related to “historical geography.”
3) I also require, and this is important, that you cast each of your essays in the context of the Enduring Themes that were a part of your first lesson. your selections may all be examples on one enduring theme or they may be examples of three different themes – up to you. But, to repeat, the enduring theme is the core of your essay. In other words, you are being given the opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of the concept and the meaning of historical geography and to use examples from our study of North America to do so.
4) It is to be expected that you will use material from the course, Lessons 1 through 9, to write these essays — you should not be treating this as a research paper starting from scratch. And, you do not need to use references/citations.
Three dates/events to be used:
1-Europeanization and Americanization-the 17th century (1600’s) nearly 200,000 immigrants left their homelands of Great Britain and continental Europe for the “New World.” For three generations, North America represented to these peoples a chance to gain political and religious freedoms and to achieve greater social and economic status. understand the profound cutural transformations during this period.
2-The New Nation and Native Americans-This is the mid-point of the course; and it’s about time we expelled those pesky British overlords and got on with the business of creating a new nation – the United States of America . The second Treaty of Paris (1783) officially ended the War of Independence, and left the new nation with a vast territory, extending all the way to the Mississippi River . Yet in the western half of this country – the Kentucky region west of the Appalachians – there were only about 25,000 settlers; the rest of it was essentially unsettled and very much in control of the original inhabitants, the Native Americans.
3-louisiana purchase-
- Understand the background and the significance of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
- Study and understand the state of geographic knowledge of the West (or lack thereof) that existed in 1803.
- Appreciate (or at least to understand) the vision and the motivation behind Thomas Jefferson’s role in the purchase and subsequent exploration.
- Enjoy browsing the highlights of the epic journey of Clark and Lewis.
- Appreciate the positive role played by the Native Americas in that journey of exploration and discovery
TIE THESE THREE SUBJECTS in the contextof HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY of north america
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