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Chapeter 23
The Settler Societies
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History
Undergraduate 1
03/25/2008

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What is a settler society?
Definition
A society that comes from a larger country and lives on a new territory that is discovered.
Term
What colonies/countries are settler societies?
Definition
  • United States
  • Canada
  • New Zealand
  • Australia
Term
How did the European settler societies differ from their mother countries?
Definition

Still relied somewhat on trends and European societies they came from.

Followed basic patterns of western civilization:

  • politial forms
Term
What impact did the settlement of New Zealand have on the aboriginal population?
Definition
  • They were converted to Christianity
  • weapons (muskets and ammunition)
  • disease (killed almost 70% of population)
  • farming (with European animals)
  • developed new religion
Term
How did the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand succeed in surviving?
Definition

The settlers kept the belief that the aboriginals were important.  Then the settlers helped the aboriginals to develop: 

  • with religion
  • better agriculture
  • weapons
Term
What is meant by American "exceptionalism"?
Definition

Saying that America is different than the countries that  it originated from and shouldn't be compared to it.

 

Term

What are the arguments for "exceptionalism"? 

Definition

The United States was:

 

  • unusually democratic
  • unusually open to social mobility
  • unusually free from political division
  • unusually racially divided
  • unusualy harsh to factory workers

 

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What are the arguments against "exceptionalism"?
Definition

Has the US gained a growing world role?

Did it behave differently from previous European great powers (i.e. Britian)?

Did the US grow more or less like Europe throughout the industrial revolution? 

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