FOCUS
QUESTIONS
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ERA 1
Different
Worlds Meet
(Beginnings to 1623)
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ERA 2
Colonization and Settlement
(1623-1763)
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BOUNDARIES
What are the boundaries of New Hampshire and how did they get there? |
- natural boundaries: NH landscape formation
- human-made boundaries: Native American lands, European claims
and grants
- mapping
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- grant controversies
- Abenaki vs. European ideas of ownership
- Massachusetts Bay and the Merrimack River
- boundaries after 1763
- town boundaries Atlantic community
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NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE
How have the natural environment and the way people live affected each other in New Hampshire? |
- migrations
- NH landscape
- NH climate
- Native American culture, changes, and alteration of land
- European attraction to NH
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- animals and people
- access to Europe and West Indies
- population distribution
- transportation
- regionalism
- logging, sawdust, and rivers
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CULTURE, RACES, AND ETHNIC GROUPS
What has happened when different cultures, races, and ethnic groups have met in New Hampshire? |
- Abenaki culture at contact
- European fishermen
- Protestant reformation
- European explorers
- epidemics in America
- conflict and cooperation
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- West African civilizations
- slave trade
- English colonists and culture
- Abenaki culture after contact
- Londonderry Scots-Irish
- conflict and cooperation
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POLITICS
How have government and politics affected New Hampshire groups and individuals? |
- Abenaki governance
- European nation-states
- European grants and claims
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- English, French, and Indian wars
- Abenaki leaders
- NH and MA Bay Colony
- NH and the English Crown
- town governments
- jurisdiction over Native Americans
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TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
How have technology and science affected life in New Hampshire? |
- Native American technologies
- sailing and navigation
- European firearms
- health and medicine
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- Native American/ European exchanges of technologies
- tools
- household technologies
- weaponry
- transportation
- water power
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NONGOVERNMENTAL GROUPS
What have nongovernmental groups contributed to New Hampshire life? |
- Abenaki families and clans
- joint stock companies (Council for New England)
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- families
- joint stock companies
- churches
- schools
- missionaries
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MATERIAL WANTS AND NEEDS
How have people and organizations interacted to produce, distribute, and consume wealth and take care of material
needs in New Hampshire? |
- Native American hunting, gathering, and agriculture
- Native American trade
- European need for resources
- Colombian Exchange
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- fur, fish, lumber, farms
- Abenaki economy after contact
- mercantilism
- slavery
- local colonial economy
- barter
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SELF-EXPRESSION
How have New Hampshire people expressed their views, and what have they had to say? |
- Abenaki art, crafts, and oral culture
- European explorer narratives
- archaeological artifacts
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- Abenaki legends, traditions, and music
- captivity narratives
- sermons
- missionary narratives
- travel narratives
- newspapers
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