Student Name: Nelson, Zachary

Directions: Take the information that you have collected thus far concerning the Essential
Questions (from summer reading, textbook reading, class notes, objective answers, etc.)
and put that information into formal outline format.



The following shows how a formal outline format is set up and used:


I. Main point follows a Roman numeral.
A. Minor points follow behind capital letters.
B. Each minor point must refer to or be a part of the major point above
1. If there are subpoints below the minor point, use Arabic numerals.
2. Notice that each point is indented from according to its importance.
3. Each subpoint must be related to or a part of the minor point it follows.
a. If there are points below subpoints, they use lower case letters.
b. They are indented below the subpoint and are related to the
subpoint or part of the subpoint above it.
(1) Sometimes, there are even smaller subdivisions,
(2) And these use Arabic numerals with a parenthesis.
C. The next minor point below the major point


II. Next major point follows Roman numeral II.
A. Minor point
B. Minor point
1. Subpoint
2. Subpoint




Essential Questions (EQ) and Key Understandings (KU):
1. EQ 1. Why do some people have so much, and others have so little?
2.
A. Great Issues in American History:
1. Limiting of Kings power was transplanted in English colonies (4)
2. English Colonies (4) Joint Stock Companies
B. A History of The American People:
1. Portuguese slave monopoly and distribution in other countries (9)
2. Money- Americas Largest settlement of humans (33)
3. Lands largest fertile soil (34)
C. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states:
1. Immigrants motivated by slaves money and land (2)
2. Indians were healthy until Europeans came, but the Europeans
brought technology (4)
3. Marital customs (5)
4. Slavery (6)
5. Color Line (22)
6. Farmers 1877 used system they called Farmers Alliance, were
they would join subgroups to buy things together and share the money
they made to create an equal income.(285)
D. Zinn Civil war
1. We hold . .. that laws which have a tendency to raise any
peculiar class above their fellow citizens, by granting special privileges,
are contrary to and in defiance of those primary principles....
2. The division of society into the producing and the non-producing
classes, and the fact of the unequal distribution of value between the
two, introduces us at once to another distinction-that of capital and
labor... . labor now becomes a commodity.... Antagonism and
opposition of interest is introduced in the community; capital and labor
stand opposed.

I. EQ 2. Why is there war and conflict?
E. KU 2. War and conflict have always been part of the story of humanity,
despite the horror and pain it leaves in its wake.
1. Great Issues in American History:
2. Zero Sum gain(4)
3. Native and european conflict of interest(10)
4. Bacon Rebbellion(64)
F. History Lessons:
1. Native--European conflict of interest(10)
G. A History of The American People:
1. All nations are born in war conquest and crime (3)
2. Civil war resolves conflict of African slavery (28)
3. Religious conflict on the Mayflower (28)
4. Natural resources (35)
H. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states
1. Colombuss expedition caused conflict between Indians because
Columbus wanted territory(4)
2. Differences in opinions(4)
3. Color Line(22)
4. Columbuss want for gold (33)
3. EQ 3. Why is there art, literature, and music, and what do they tell us about the
peoples that create them?
A. KU 3. A culture gives great insight into the people who created it.
B. Art, Literature, and music solidifies beliefs, ideas, and cultures.
C. Great Issues in American History:
1. Massechusettes Bay Charter- Development of self government
(62)
2. Mayflower compact(74)
3. Wealth of nations (190) difference between wealth and trade
between nations.
D. A History of The American People:
1. British make laws to prevent British cultural diffusion (13)
2. Scientists as well as artists were brought to study America, such as
John White (15)
E. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states
1. Puritans in the bible(14)
2. Famous writers of the 1900s spoke for socialism or criticized
capitalism, such as Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Theodore Deiser, Frank
Noris(322)
4. EQ 4. What can motivate people to be capable of acts of altruism and evil?
A. KU 4. Cultures that create great beauty are also capable of committing
acts of great evil.
B. Power is the overall reason. Greed, ambition, religion patriotism have
involved the need for power.
C. Great Issues in American History:
1. Slavery becoming a political issue (196)
D. History Lessons:
1. Arawks Fighting (10)
2. Racism of Black treatment (319)
3. Feminism and Racism (347)
E. A History of The American People:
1. ...Can ideas of altruism- the desire to build a perfect community-
be mixed successfully with acquisitiveness and ambition?(3)
2. American Legal code (26)
3. New Englanders were a most negligent and ignorant set.(37)

F. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states
1. Indians becoming servants (29)
2. If racism cannot be shown to be natural, then it is the result of
certain conditions, and were impelled to eliminate those conditions.(35)
3. Revenge (13
4. Money (4)
5. Justification based on slavery (27)
6. Bacons Rebellion (40)
5. EQ 5. What is the proper balance between the needs of humanity and the resources of
the earth?
A. KU 5. The earth has been both used and abused by human beings.
B. The development and success of groups depends on the support the land
they live on has.
C. Great Issues in American History:
1. Difficulties of famine and disease (34)
2. Distribution of land, building of irrigation, and welcoming visitors
struggle (193)
3. Americas internal market more than doubled as the crowded cities
of the eastern states grew. (283)
D. A History of The American People:
1. As Christopher Columbus said, people crossed the Atlantic
primarily in search of gold. (3)
2. Colonists had to be dependant on English imports or create their
own. (22)
3. Central North America has the best soil for growing crops(34)
4. Americas Abundance (34-38)
E. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states:
1. Colombus expected Indiato have gold,spices, silks(3)
2. Many N.A. were wiped out by disease and whites(8)
3. Colonization and expansion(16)
Farming (18)
6. EQ 6. How does power, or the lack thereof, affect people?
A. KU 6. Power can corrupt those who hold it, and a lack of power can
embitter those who do not.
B. Great Issues in American History:
1. Idea to limit kings power in English colonies (4)
2. Effects of the crown in Parliament (61)
3. As populations grew, constituents were misrepresented(195)
Thomas Jeffrereson said No colony can be great unless is had colonies in
the new world (61)
C. A History of The American People:
1. Resources brought by the Mayflower (29)
2. John Mason sold 2 million Acres of land for a planned settlement
if new towns. (90)
3. Lower elected houses get control from president (105)
4. slavery treated as a commodity (5)
5. Loss of English authority in America colonies.

6. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states:
7. Indians had no ownership, they simply lived on what they
crossed(7)
8. Columbus was able too explore because of the endorsement of the
queen (42)
9. Natives flee for safety (4)
10. Drive of conflicts (16)
1. If you dont have power, its hard to get it; slavery(35)
7. EQ 7. What factors contribute to the growth and decline of empires and
civilizations?
A. KU 7. Empires and civilizations ebb and flow.
B. Great Issues in American History:
1. Western expedition motivated by Gold Silver and Diamonds (31)
2. Thomas Jefferson said No colony can be great unless is had
colonies in the new world (61)
2. Adam smith considered most of English regulatory acts
harmful to the countrys economic growth(135)
C. A History of The American People:
1. Treaty of Tortillas gave Brazil territory (8)
2. Success of Christian imperialism make Christians think they are
chosen (20)
3. Absorbing and planting(21)
4. Growth of American population(90)
3. Industrial Growth (94-99)
5. Paul Johnson:
4. Franklin moves to the view that independence is the only
solution, preparing for war with (150)

D. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states
1. Half 25000 haitians wiped out by spanish with superieor muskets,
swords, horses, burning, suicide
2. Steal Plows, Mowing Machines, Reapers, Harvesters, improved
cotton gins, and giant combines that cut grain, threshed it and put it in
bags greatly sped production to support a rising population(283)
8. EQ 8. Is progress always good?
B. KU 8. Every idea and technology has unintended consequences.
1. Great Issues in American History:
1. A particualr share of the the world was concieved as fixed (132)
2. declaration of indedpenance(5) good for America, but not british.
3. Conquest-disease (11)
B. A History of The American People:
1. 15th century sugar mills enslave Africans (5)
2. Disconnect of British power(91)
3. transformed slavery into something more impersonal than slavery
of Africans in other places(5)
4. speed of disease through exploration (7)
C. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states
1. Columbuss conquest kills indians(6)
D. cortez killed indians to make room for the spaniards
1. Slaves contributed to the growth of america(20)
2. French revolution(10) evolutinon and hunter gathering(18)
3. Evils of Imperialism; American Annexing of the Philippine Isles.
Philippine War. (314)
9. EQ 9. What role does interpretation play in the study of history?
A. KU 9. There is no such thing as objective history.
B. Great Issues in American History:
1. Views of Bacon Rebellion differ between Berkley and Nathaniel
Bacon (64)
2. Vikings discovered America first (3)
C. A History of The American People:
1. Source can be biased(3)
2. History not knowing information(104)
D. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states:
10. EQ 10. Why are ideas and technologies born, and why do they die?
A. KU 10. Cultures create ideas and technologies out of necessity; good ideas
and technologies spread to other cultures, and weak ones fade away.
B. Great Issues in American History:
1. Creation of colonial policies (131)
2. Advances in navigation on cartography(6)
3. Spanish weapons superior to natives (10)
4. Joint Stock Companies (5)
5. Self Government(73)
6. Separation of church and state (210)
C. A History of The American People:
1. Raleigh would entertain the queen with ideas and
experiments...(13)
2. Indian-Christian assimilation (25)
3. Capitalism in America (24)
4. Castles and Architecture (6)
5. Improved farming because of rich soil.(7)
D. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states:
1. conquest, slave ship(29)
1. Steal Plows, Mowing Machines, Reapers,
Harvesters, improved cotton gins, and giant combines that
cut grain, threshed it and put it in bags greatly sped
production to support a rising population(283)

11. EQ 11. Are there pivot points in history?
A. KU 11. Throughout history, there have been key periods.
B. Great Issues in American History:
B. A History of The American People:
1. Fail of Virginian colony may have saved Americas existence (19)
1. Landing Plymouth Massachusetts (28)

C. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states:

C. Idea of opening imperialism in the Americas(4)
D. Slave trade(4)(2)(23)
D. Genocide(4)
12. EQ 12. Why are some individuals throughout history considered "great?"
A. KU 12. Throughout history, there have been key people.
E. Great Issues in American History:
1. John Cabot came to America After Columbus(4)
2. Other explorers (5)
1. Adam Smith challenged trading system (186)
B. A History of The American People:
1. Richard Hakluyt considered important scholar, who made maps of
the Ocean.(11)
2. Raleigh is the first great man in history of the
American people to come into close focus with the
documents(12)
F. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states
2. Columbus-Exploring taking all the credit and killing the Indians(6)
C. Cortes(10)
G. Famous writers of the 1900s spoke for socialism or
criticized capitalism, such as Upton Sinclair, Jack London,
Theodore Deiser, Frank Noris(322)
13. EQ 13. Is the world becoming "flat?"
A. KU 13. Through history, the world is moving toward greater
connectedness.
H. Great Issues in American History:
1. Exploration and trade (4)
1. Vasco De Gama(4) discovered trade route of Africa
I. A History of The American People:
2. Motives of Expansion:Gold, Religion(4)
3. North American fishing helped colonization and world trade (23)
4. Taking criminals to Australia (95)
B. Zinn, A peoples History of The United states:
1. Atlantic slave trade(8)
2. Native Americans adopting european culture and reciving
european goods for land(11)
3. Hopes of leveling (11)