[HST 241] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (36 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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Christopher columbus, thanksgiving: sometimes, we choose to interpret the past in a way that blindly affirms values supporting the status quo. This leads to a kind of chamber of commerce history that, instead of attempting to offer intellectually honest, sophisticated interpretation so the past, simply promotes the interests of those in power: results help the upper class stay upper. Congregation made up church (rather than building), no embellishments. Tithing man would keep people awake: where overflow from fanuiel hall would come. Had to pay for a pew (downstairs: wealthy people) 3rd balcony: don"t own land, slave or servant or poor. Phillis wheatley: 1st black to publish, came here. 3 pence tax on tea, only 7 loyalists could sell in boston. 3 ships arrived w tea, citizens have 20 days to decide what to do. Gov said had to keep ship here, sam adams ended meetings (actually a signal to throw tea in harbor)
