Global Passage

HIST 231- The United States History in the World

Professor, G. Benton

MID TERM EXAM Spring Semester 2021 NAME: ______________________________________________ #

DIRECTIONS: Choose 7 Chapters / Complete 7 Global Passages

Type at least 1/2 page for each Global Passage. – Type at least a paragraph response (10 to 12 sentences) for both questions in 7 of the 15 Global Passages of your

choice. You may or may not add an additional source in your response.

Each Global Passage Response should fill at least one-half -page. Remember to organize your thoughts, structure your words clearly, and write to express your main points. Begin by restating the questions into a direct answer and then proceed to expound; do not re-write the question, however include an introduction, continue with the body, and conclude with clear and thoughtful entries in each response.

Chapter 1 Global Passages: Chocolate

 Why did Europeans initially fear chocolate and other American foods? Why

do you think they overcame this anxiety?

 How has the meaning behind chocolate consumption changed over time?

Chapter 2 Global Passages: Angela’s Ordeal, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the

Creation of African North American Cultures

 In what ways did the struggle between England and Spain for supremacy in

the Americas shape Angela’s ordeal and English participation in the Atlantic

slave trade?

 In what ways did shared origins in West Central Africa likely shape the lives

of Angela and other Africans in early Virginia?

Chapter 3 Global Passages: Global Catholicism, Indian Christianity, and

Catherine Kateri Tekakwitha

 In what ways have Catholic clergy and Indians viewed the life of Tekakwitha

since her death? In what ways have those portraits differed? What might

account for such differences?

 Tekakwitha and Pocahontas chose to participate in colonial societies that

profoundly altered their worlds. Are their lives, and the choices that they

made, comparable? Explain.

Chapter 4 Global Passages: New York, Madagascar, and Indian Ocean Piracy

 Why did New Yorkers help to establish European piracy in the Indian

Ocean? Why did English officials seek to sever their ties to Indian Ocean

pirates in the 1690s?

 What relationship did the campaign to cut New York’s ties to Indian Ocean

pirates have to the British Empire’s broader war on piracy during the 1700s?

Chapter 5 Global Passages: The Deerskin Trade and Indian Consumers

 How and why did the deerskin trade reshape Native American life?

 How did environmental factors in both Europe and North America impact

trade?

Chapter 6 Global Passages: Independence: Transatlantic Roots, Global Influence

 Why was it so important for the Declaration of Independence to appeal to

the broader world at large?

 In what ways do you think the Declaration of Independence has shaped

global opinion of the United States?

Chapter 7 Global Passages: Phillis Wheatley, Revolutionary Transatlantic Poet

 In what ways might Phillis Wheatley have caused white Americans to

question their assumptions about Africans and enslaved people?

 How did global movement influence Phillis Wheatley’s life and work?

Chapter 8 Global Passages: Revolutionary Migrations

 How do you think the migration of tens of thousands of people across the

Atlantic and the Caribbean shaped the relationship between the United

States and the revolutions in France and Saint-Domingue?

 How significant was the decision by Congress to allow Saint-Dominguan

slaveholders to bring slaves into the United States after the international

slave trade had been outlawed?

Chapter 9 Global Passages: Francisco de Miranda, the United States, and Latin

American Independence

 Compare Miranda’s 1806 Venezuela invasion to Andrew Jackson’s takeover

of Florida in the First Seminole War.

 Why do you think neither President Adams nor President Jefferson wanted

to support Miranda even though other Americans supported his plans?

Chapter 10 Global Passages: Whaling

 Why do you think American culture was so fascinated with whaling if it was

just another capitalist industry?

 Compare and contrast how whaling and butter making contributed to the

growth of the market economy.

Chapter 11 Global Passages: Middlemen Abroad

 How does the importance of the early global drug trade challenge the

traditional notion of market exchanged as benevolent or mutually

beneficial?

 How would the cultural exchanges (such as the one described previously by

John Heard) have shaped a trader’s or his family’s perceptions of Indians?

Chapter 12 Global Passages: Celebrating the Black Atlantic

 How did black Americans learn about the experiences of other enslaved

people in the hemisphere?

 What lessons did they draw from these experiences and how did they shape

the struggle against slavery in the United States?

Chapter 13 Global Passages: Making Boundaries, Conestogas, Comanches, and

Californios

 Why did the United States want a clearly demarcated boundary when none

had existed prior to the war?

 What made a clear settlement of a boundary line difficult?

Chapter 14 Global Passages: A Global War for Democracy

 Why were European reformers interested in the U.S. Civil War?

 How did their support matter for the North?

Chapter 15 Global Passages: Irish American and the Fenian Struggle

 Why did the U.S. government protect American Fenians even when they

took up arms against the British Empire?

 How did the naturalization of Irish immigrants as Americans relate to

making freed people citizens at the same time?