pp. 1-7 discussion questions by Steve Buteux https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088 Please develop two discussion questions that reflect your understanding of the reading. en-us 2025-09-04 17:36:10 UTC 2025-10-17 03:43:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3572570524 Why did not all colonists support independence from Britain?

]]> 2025-09-07 22:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3572570524 How did the colonists justify enslaving africans and the violence against native people? https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3572570752 2025-09-07 22:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3572570752 Which side, if any, do you think was the "Aggressor"? https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574190852 2025-09-08 15:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574190852 Was there a way war could be avoided? How? https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574191809 2025-09-08 15:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574191809 Luna Z lzilkha26 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574718038 Why was religion used to justify the mass persecution of native Americans and enslavement of africans?

]]> 2025-09-09 00:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574718038 Luna Z lzilkha26 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574720511 In The 1760's, how were resources and goods used to perpetuate power imbalence?

]]> 2025-09-09 00:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574720511 Char cwoodward27_1 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574878210 Why was the decline of 60 to 90 percent of native inhabitants excused and read as misunderstanding and conflict?

]]> 2025-09-09 01:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574878210 Char cwoodward27_1 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574895653 Land was a major indicator of power during this time period. Why did it have to resort to war and the need to exploit the land and resources to make a profit?

]]> 2025-09-09 01:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3574895653 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575015859 Why did the colonists believe it was their divine right to expand into native territory?

]]> 2025-09-09 02:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575015859 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575017461 Why did each European colony need to be governed differently?

]]> 2025-09-09 02:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575017461 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575162019 What percentage of people were colonialists vs. revolutionists? What was the colonialists argument? Did they have a valid point, aside from indefinite allegiance?

]]> 2025-09-09 03:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575162019 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575164656 Why didn't colonists also contract diseases from north America? Natives had lived there for thousands of years, so they had to have developed immunity to diseases that europeans hadn't, right?

]]> 2025-09-09 03:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575164656 Parker https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575208747 Why do you think that Natives more often had disagreements and war, rather than peaceful interactions with the colonists (besides miscommunication)?

]]> 2025-09-09 04:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575208747 Parker https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575210880 Why do you think the law stating that, "an enslaved person was both a person and property owned by another person" when most laws at the time stated one or the other?

]]> 2025-09-09 04:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3575210880 Lilly S https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3576153188 If they needed more slaves and workers, then why did they kill so many of them?

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Why would they choose the "weaker race" to carry out their tasks and farming? What made them the weaker race was their working their slaves so hard.

]]> 2025-09-09 13:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3576153188 what percentage of natives do historians believe died from diseases brought by Europeans? https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3579134957 2025-09-11 01:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3579134957 what were the names of the first 13 original colonies? https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3579137833 2025-09-11 01:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3579137833 Gabi https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3610023302 Why were the colonies governed differently than one another than being governed the same?

]]> 2025-09-29 20:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3610023302 Val #1 & 2 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3627033675 If the revolution was originally spurred on by high-ranking colonists for mainly selfish finical reasons, what reasons did they say to convince lower-ranking colonists, and did the high-ranking colonists actually see any truth in what they were saying?

]]> 2025-10-10 17:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3627033675 Parker Q's 1 & 2 https://padlet.com/asbuteux/uo9h45sh1ug7f088/wish/3636960681 1) Why did the leaders of the US idealize Rome and dislike Ancient Greece?


2) What did the Federalists generally argue for and why?

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