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Assignment 2

Submission Instructions

Please use the following instructions for submitting your assignment to your Open Learning Faculty Member.

As soon as you have completed all parts of Assignment 2, name and save your document. Send it to your Open Learning Faculty Member for marking by using theAssignments link. Be sure to include your name, the course code, assignment number, and the date of submission on the title page of your assignments, so they can be easily identified, and you can get credit for all your work. Use headers in the body of your written assignments to make sure all components of your assignments are clearly identified (course code, your surname, assignment number, date [day, month, year]).

Name your assignment file as follows: course number_your surname_assignment number_date. For example, if your name is John Smith and you are submitting Assignment 2, name your file: HIST 3991_Smith_Assignment2_14June2014.

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Note

Keep a copy of your assignment before sending it to your Open Learning Faculty Member for evaluation so you can refer to your assignment during a telephone or email discussion with your Open Learning Faculty Member. Also, in the unlikely event that your assignment is lost, you will have an extra copy of your work. Many student writing manuals today suggest that students keep copies of all early drafts of their work as well, to protect themselves against mistaken charges of plagiarism.

As soon as you have submitted your assignment, and while waiting for your Open Learning Faculty Member to return it, begin the next module.

When your marked assignment is returned, review your Open Learning Faculty Member’s comments and queries. Take the time to carefully go over the marked assignment. If necessary, reread sections of the textbook or unit commentary that gave you trouble. What lessons can you apply to your next assignment? Phone your Open Learning Faculty Member if you have any questions or problems.

Your Open Learning Faculty Member is responsible for the grade you receive on an assignment. If you disagree with a mark, discuss it with your Open Learning Faculty Member right away. Also, the Open Learning Faculty Member alone decides whether you may or may not rewrite and assignment. You should know, however, that it is not customary to allow revisions of already graded work unless you make a formal appeal. This is why telephone contact with your Open Learning Faculty Member before assignment submission is important—particularly if you are having difficulty

Assignment Instructions

This assignment is worth 12% of your final grade. There are two parts, short and long answer questions related to your course readings.

Short Answer Questions

In four or five sentences, briefly answer five of the following questions. Ten marks each.

1. From the Steinberg textbook, Reflections from a Woodlot explain what were some of the main environmental factors that impeded or facilitated resettlement.

2. After reading Samuel de Champlain’s Voyages, how do you think his target audience e shape his writing?

3. Based on Cook’s argument, how important were ecological factors to survival in the New France colony? How do Virginia DeJohn Anderson’s findings compare to Ramsay Cook’s?

4. What is Carl Martin’s main argument regarding the impact of Europeans on the culture of the northeastern Algonquian?

5. In what ways does Charles Bishop refute or contradict Carl Martin’s thesis? How does Carl Martin respond to his critics? Do you think his ecological interpretation is sound?

6. From Steinberg’s chapters 5 and 7 and Joyce Chaplin’s article, explain how access to water shaped power relations in the U.S. South. What impact did water and agriculture have on the enslavement of African peoples in this part of North America?

7. Based upon Donald Worster’s essay and the primary sources “An Advocate Encounters the Irrigators, 1887” and “An Advocate Encounters the Irrigators, 1887”, explain how irrigation was organized in California in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? Were there alternatives to the model chosen?

Long Answer Questions

Answer two of the following questions. 250-350 words per question. Twenty-five marks each.

1. Considering the environmental challenges of resettlement, how might an environmental history approach change the way historians think about the colonization of North America by European peoples?

2. How did the encounter with capitalism through the fur trade alter the Aboriginal relationship with fur-bearing animals?

3. How did the control over water through the use of different irrigation technologies alter social power relations in the U.S. South and West?

4. The following criteria will be used to evaluate your answers.

Criteria

Weighting

Your response adequately addresses/answers the question.

/10

Your response demonstrates critical and thoughtful reflection on the readings, videos, and other course materials. It synthesizes ideas from the course material and includes your own interpretation/response.

/10

Your response is written in clear, fluent, and technically correct prose. (Note that the writing is less formal than an essay, so you may write in the first person.)

/5