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FOCUS
QUESTIONS
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ERA 3
Revolution and
the New Nation
(1763-1820s)
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ERA 4
Expansion
and Reform
(1801-1861)
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BOUNDARIES
What are the boundaries of New Hampshire and how did they get there? |
- settlement of the interior
- NH-VT boundary
- county boundaries
- international boundaries
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- Indian Stream Republic
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- county boundaries
- state sale of public lands
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NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE
How have the natural environment and the way people live affected each other in New Hampshire?
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- sectionalism in NH
- sectionalism in the colonies
- over-hunting and over-trapping
- over-cutting timber
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- water: rivers and canals
- mills and pollution
- population distribution
- roads and bridges
- North Country notches
- agriculture
- going west
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CULTURE, RACES, AND ETHNIC GROUPS
What has happened when different cultures, races, and ethnic groups have met in New Hampshire? |
- slaves of NH owners
- free blacks
- Native American emigration and assimilation
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- demographics
- immigrant mill workers
- religious sects
- cult of true womanhood
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POLITICS
How have government and politics affected New Hampshire groups and individuals? |
- acts that build resentment
- Declaration of Independence
- Rebels, Tories, and war
- NH and US constitutions
- NH slave petition, 1779
- Republican Virtue
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- embargo and War of 1812
- Portsmouth Navy Yard
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Daniel Webster
- NH and national politics
- education
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TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
How have technology and science affected life in New Hampshire?
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- embargo and home production
- print technology and revolution
- road building and nationhood
- bridge-building
- health and medicine
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- mills: textiles and shoes
- canals
- railroads
- millgirls and immigrant labor
- Concord coach
- capitalism
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NONGOVERNMENTAL GROUPS
What have nongovernmental groups contributed to New Hampshire life? |
- Daughters of Liberty
- women and boycotts
- revolution and the homefront
- benevolent societies
- Freemasonry
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- religious sects
- reform organizations
- NH Historical Society
- educational societies
- professional societies
- lodges and philanthropic organizations
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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? |
- sectionalism, economics, and politics
- commerce
- privateers and war
- embargo and home manufactures
- provincial currency
- gold and silver
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- cash economy vs. barter
- precapitalism to capitalism
- farmers and cash
- banking
- emigration
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SELF-EXPRESSION
How have New Hampshire people expressed their views, and what have they had to say? |
- US Constitution and the press
- broadsides
- Revolutionary music
- needlework
- crafts and art
- Jeremy Belknap, History of NH
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- Singing Hutchinsons
- Shakers
- Sarah Josepha Hale
- Thomas Cole
- court cases
- songs of reform
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