FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS:
This test will be distributed electronically Fri. Sept. 24 at 8 AM.
It is due as ONE uploaded Word document, submitted to Canvas, by Mon. Sept. 27 at 5 PM.
Please put both essays together in one document.
Your document must be either Microsoft Word or a PDF.
Put your name and the date on the top of your test.
If you copy the questions into your answer document before answering them, remove the questions before submitting the exam—it confuses TurnItIn.
After the due date passes, Canvas will still accept late exams until 11:59 PM on Oct. 1.
Unexcused late tests will lose 5 points for each day late.
After the Oct. 1 final submission date passes, we will not accept the test.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
This test is open-book and open-notebook, but be certain to work alone, and make sure all your answers are your own—DO NOT CUT AND PASTE, either from another’s work, or published sources.
Be sure to answer all parts of the questions.
You should use all of the assigned material in the course in framing your answers: the audio PowerPoint lectures, the relevant Foner chapters, the primary sources, and the assignment supplemental material.
While you do not need to, you may bring in other material, rephrased in your own words, from the internet or published sources, provided you cite it.
Keep in mind that each essay is worth 50% of the total test grade, so try to answer all parts of both questions fully, giving specific details and examples to support your answer.
It is important that you specifically reference the primary documents noted in the question in your answers, and use them to answer the question.
CITATION GUIDELINES:
Follow the HIST 1310 Citation Guide. Download HIST 1310 Citation Guide.
Use in-text citations (Percy, “Starving Time” (1624), PDF), rather than a bibliography or a Works Cited list at the end.
Put the citation in your essay right after you finish either quoting, paraphrasing, or discussing the document.
Cite the required primary documents the way I have them listed in the questions, just put them in parenthesis ().
For outside material, you MUST have a citation for any work that you used, whether you paraphrased specific information from it or not.
For an internet source, the minimum information you need to include is a title of the webpage and a working hyperlink. It would look like this (“Bacon’s Rebellion, https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/bacons-rebellion.htm (Links to an external site.)).
But if you know more information, that adds credibility. Key details include the name of an individual author, an institution responsible, and the date a webpage was created or updated. This would be the order for all of this information: (Author, “Title of Website,” Institution Responsible, (Year), hyperlink).
For example (Susan McCulley and Jen Loux, “Bacon’s Rebellion,” National Park Service, (1995), https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/bacons-rebellion.htm (Links to an external site.)).
Do not quote secondary works directly (i.e., do not “cut and paste” anything from an internet source or any outside work).
If there is a question about plagiarism, a citation to the outside source will aid credibility.
QUESTIONS (ANSWER TWO ESSAYS OUT OF THE FOLLOWING THREE)
1) Kathleen Donegan entitled her book on the early history of the Chesapeake, New England, and the Caribbean Seasons of Misery. Using at least FOUR (4) of the following accounts to support your answer, explain some of the factors that led to such a loss of life and misery for both Native Americans and whites in the early years of settlement. What explanations did contemporary narrators give for the difficulties they faced? What can our sources reveal about some of the root causes of the tensions between Native Americans and Europeans in this period? It what ways did this “misery” continue for some groups well into the Colonial period? Why?
Bartolomé de las Cases, History of the Indies (1528) PDF Download Bartolomé de las Cases, History of the Indies (1528) PDF.
George Percy, “Starving Time,” (1624), PDF Download George Percy, “Starving Time,” (1624), PDF.
Historical Jamestown, https://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/the-starving-time/ (Links to an external site.).
William Bradford, “Sickness Among the Natives” (1633), PDF Download William Bradford, “Sickness Among the Natives” (1633), PDF.
“Maryland Act Concerning Negroes and Other Slaves,” (1664), Foner, Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1, p. 104.
Josephe, “Declaration of Josephe,” (1681), Foner, Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1, p. 37.
Elizabeth Sprigs, “Letter by a Female Indentured Servant,” (Sept. 22, 1756), Foner, Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1, 105.
Scarouyady, “Speech to the Pennsylvania Provincial Council,” (1756), Foner, Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1, p. 176.
Pontiac, “Speeches,” (1762, 1763), Foner, Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1, p. 177.
“Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature, (1773, 1777), Foner, Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1, p. 249.
