History Assignemnt: Survey of the united states

Assignment sheet for writing project on Colin Woodard's American Nations. Length five to Seven pages, double-spaced.

Directions: this review asks you to do a selective summary of Woodard, based on some specific points.

The first step is to choose one of regional nations that interests you: Tidewater, New Netherland, Yankeedom, Midlands, Deep South and , Greater Appalachia. Once you have done so, please summarize what Woodard says about the following points:

1. Why was it founded?

2. How did it imagine freedom, and who did it believe freedom was for and not for?

3. What was its view of religion and religious freedom?

4. When it decided whether or not to participate in the American Revolution, what was the motive for the decision?

5. When your nation decided whether or not to participate in the American Civil War, what was the motive for the decision and for the choice of side?

Next choose one of the following regional areas of Canada: New France ( Quebec), the Atlantic or Maritime provinces ( Nova Scotia), or Midlands ( Ontario), and trace why that nation choose not to join in the American Revolution. These regions are the founding core of today's Canada.

Finally, you will list the key parts of the original Constitution of the United States, defined For this purpose as the text that emerged from the 1787 convention plus the first ten amendments added in 1791. Identify which regional nation contributed each key part and why. On this section, you need not explain how the parts worked, just establish where that part came from. But you should how that section identifies that regional nation's political priority at the time.