Exercises
ANSWER IN BRIEF
1. Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples
of South and North America.
2. Other than the use of English, what other features of English
economic and social life do you notice in nineteenth-century USA?
3. What did the 'frontier' mean to the Americans?
Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of
history books?
ANSWER IN A SHORT ESSAY
5. How satisfactory is a museum gallery display in explaining the
culture of a people? Give examples from your own experience of
Answers
Answer:
1. Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America. Answer: Owing to topographical differences, South Americans were hunter-gatherers, agriculturists and herders. ... The natives of South America maintained empire, while the natives of North America did not maintain it.
2. Solution. Apart from the use of English, several other changes were introduced in the Economic and social life in the nineteenth-century-USA. Large-scale agriculture in the USA expanded as huge areas were cleared and developed as farms, where crops like rice and cotton were produced to sustain the population.
3. American frontier, in United States history, the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. ... It is characterized by the westward movement of European settlers from their original settlements on the Atlantic coast (17th century) to the Far West (19th century).
4. The history of the Australian native peoples was left out of history books because it was written by European settlers. Till the middle of the twentieth century, Australian history textbooks hardly mentioned the native peoples except to suggest that the latter were hostile to Europeans.