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Exams should be typed and stapled, with your name and date on the top. Please sign where indicated on the next page and attach this sheet to the exam. You are allowed to use whatever notes and assigned course readings you feel will help you; however, be aware that the sections are weighted unequally and budget your time accordingly. You should not need to spend more than 3 hours on the exam.

Part I: Readings and Lecture Awareness 10%
Select the correct answer for the following five questions. Each is worth 2 points.

1) The Mogollon

a) merged with the Anasazi to become the ancestors of the Pueblo.
b) was a mythical city of gold.
c) were a tribe wiped out by typhus in southern Virginia.
d) was an important mestizo warrior at Acoma.

a) established a national survey grid.
b) is also known as the Northwest Ordinance.
c) forbade English colonists from migrating west of the Appalachians.
d) established the Spanish claim to the New World.

a) is another name for Pohé-yemo.
b) was a game played in Central American ball courts.
c) was the first governor of New Amsterdam.
d) is one of several Pueblo language groups.

a) wanted to find the Fountain of Youth, but got lost in Florida.
b) came from a Zacatecas mining family.
c) was a Franciscan priest who wrote about the Pueblo Revolt.
d) was the first European to view the Grand Canyon.

a) a historic fort in northern New Mexico.
b) a deadly infectious disease brought to the Americas by Spain.
c) the campaign to reclaim Spain from the Muslims.
d) what Spanish colonists called the reestablishment of New Mexico after the Pueblo Revolt.

Hohokam
New Amsterdam
Cabeza de Vaca
Frederick Jackson Turner
Acoma
Ordinance of 1785
Treaty of Paris
Katsina
Encomendero
Tenskwatawa

Part III: Comprehensive Analytical Essay 60%
Some scholars have envisioned the frontier as something similar to a long shoreline, upon which people and cultures crash and flow inland like a wave or succession of waves. Others have argued instead that a frontier is a “middle ground,” more akin to a marketplace where ideas and goods are shared and exchanged.

Drawing on both the lectures and the readings, write a well-organized essay assessing the validity of each of these metaphors for the historical experience of early American frontiers. Be sure to identify your sources and state your position clearly. You are strongly encouraged to use specific examples to support and illustrate your claims; a demonstrated awareness of historiographical issues is also desirable.

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