Discussion Questions

1. The Seven Years War marked a change in imperial power on the North American continent.  While it is important to include a cursory overview of the events that laid the foundation and the immediate and long-term effects of the French and Indian War, most importantly discuss the social and economic relationships (Native peoples and Europeans) that gave context to the conflict.
2. In the wake of the 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory, the United States constructed an image of exceptionalism and individualism best represented in Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis.  Although Turner argues that, the end of the frontier also marked one of the most important democratizing forces in American life, what assumptions did Turner make?  Discuss those who are absent from Turner’s interpretation of the past and their significance to history.

CATs

1. Give me a once sentence summary of Richard White’s “middle ground?”
2. Was David Weber a revisionist? What is a revisionist?