1) Write a couple of paragraphs explaining
• how the stories of English settlers and Irish and Italian immigrants appear to us from a zoomed in perspective
• how the stories of English settlers and Irish and Italian immigrants appear to us from a zoomed out
perspective
• how either the Pequot War or King Philip’s War appears from both a zoomed-in and zoomed out
perspective – i.e., choose one of these two wars and explain how it appears from both zoomed in
and zoomed out perspectives.
o Base your discussion entirely on the lecture “Where to Start?” That means do not use the Internet or
other sources. Focus on the assigned lecture. Show that you have studied this lecture.

2) Write a couple of paragraphs explaining
• what it means to say that a large group of individuals is a “national people”
• the religious groups in each of the regional cultures of the 13 colonies
• whether it is true to say that the United States was a Protestant country in 1776
• examples of distrust and intolerance among the various Protestant groups in the 13 colonies
o, Base your discussion entirely on the lecture “One People.” That means do not use the Internet or
other sources. Focus on the assigned lecture. Show that you have studied this lecture.

With this understanding in mind, let’s return to when the United States began, when the 13 British colonies declared independence from Great Britain in 1776. Remember, the Declaration of Independence begins by calling the people of the 13 colonies “one people.”
Now that we know the suspicion many colonists felt toward each other, let’s repeat the
question we asked above: Were they really “one people”? Did they really share a culture
together? Did they really share
• a set of attitudes and habits that form a common way of life?
• a set of beliefs about legal principles and political systems?
• a sense of social cohesion and social trust among themselves?
Was the Declaration of Independence accurate in describing them as “one people”?