explain why many people in the United States perceive colonial history in a particular way.

present a rationale for teaching future generations of people in the United States about colonial history.

demonstrate that the colonial history of the United States is a mixture of legends and myths.

argue that colonial history had no influence on later periods in United States history.

The primary purpose of this passage is to …. In the decades following the Revolution, the colonial period was an integral and important part of history.ġ. Instead, we have transformed John Smith and Pocahontas, the Pilgrim Fathers, and Squanto (historical figures about whom we know a great deal) into fanciful and fabulous characters.īut such has not always been the case. Unlike England we have no King Canute, no King Arthur, no Robin Hood to spin tales and legends about. Since the United States, unlike older Western nations, lacks a misty past in which the historical record is remote and obscure, people have tended to transform authentic historical figures and events of the colonial past into mythical characters and legends. In part this is because the colonial period has become a natural source of folklore and mythmaking. For much of United States history, popular opinion has considered the century and a half of the colonial period to be simply a quaint prolog to the main story that followed the American Revolution. For many, the colonial era lacks seriousness it seems trivial and antique and shrouded in nostalgia. They have often thought that earlier period to be less relevant, less historically significant, than the later national period of their history.

United States citizens have always had a problem relating to the colonial period of their history.

Questions 1-2 refer to the following passage. Persiapkan dirimu dengan latihan soal dan pembahasan UTBK Bahasa Inggris 2022 berikut ini!

Soal olimpiade bahasa inggris sd 2018