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HIS 225 Colorado History First Take-Home Exam Fall 2016

Kathy Sturdevant

Answer three of the following in typed essay form as thoroughly as you can. EVERYONE MUST ANSWER #1. Use your own thoughts and words. You might want to do some additional research to fill in any unclear areas beyond the required readings. Clue: choose questions that will highlight your best abilities rather than just the ones that look easy. Second clue: in any and all answers, be detailed about the history but also analyze “outside the box,” using larger contexts. Avoid duplication in your choices of which questions to answer and in the content of your answers. Do not combine your answers from more than one question into one answer. A good answer would probably take 2-3 double-spaced pages, but there is no maximum length. Do your best. Remember, do not plagiarize or copy/paste from other sources. I am interested in your own thoughts and words. If you quote a source, cite it, although a good response does not necessarily have to turn to outside sources. Note: You are receiving this exam so that you can start on it with #1. Then choose and answer your other two questions after we cover them in class. Listen carefully in class to how we cover each topics and whether we get to all of them on the list.

1. Who were the Anasazi, how did they live, what happened to them, and why does it matter to Colorado history? Why are they and their home site so significant?

2. Describe and analyze the history and significance of the Santa Fe Trail and Santa Fe trade to Colorado history. Include in your answer the other communities, trends, and events it spawned.

3. Historian David Lavendar called Bent’s Fort “the outpost of manifest destiny” and said that the leading men there—Bents, Carson, St. Vrain—helped form a “fifth column” that assisted in the Mexican War. Describe and analyze the history and significance of Bent’s Fort to Colorado history, and all the ways that it and its founders “infiltrated” Spanish society and made a “fifth column.”

4. Who was Zebulon Pike, what did he do, what was controversial about him, why does he matter to Colorado history, and how is any of that reflected, symbolically or realistically, today?

5. Thoroughly identify three of the following, explaining their significance to Colorado history:

a. Stephen Long

b. Susan Shelby Magoffin

c. Padre Martinez

d. Fort Massachusetts and Fort Garland

6. How did past gold rushes in other places affect the Colorado or Pikes Peak Gold Rush? Analyze why.

7. What were the special roles and experiences of saloons and saloon girls in the Colorado Gold Rush (and generally)?