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.
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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.
2) Conspiracy theories—widespread, emotional beliefs in menacing yet invisible threats—are not new, and played a bigger role in European and American history than many people realize. A tendency to explain disturbing new developments by referencing shadowy, malevolent individuals acting behind the scenes, and to describe one’s opponents in hyperbolic terms, often had great emotional power. Address the conspiracy theories embedded in at least FOUR of the following documents, discussing the following: what conspiracy theories are being referenced in each work? (Yes, there is an element of conspiratorial thinking in both the Patriot and Loyalist sides during the Revolution.) Why might have made people at the time inclined to believe them, and to believe the worst of their perceived enemies? What details are included to make you believe, either through arguments or images? Keep your discussion chronological, and give enough background on each to explain your document and the events it references.
Documents on the Jewish Plague Pogroms, (1349), PDF Download Documents on the Jewish Plague Pogroms, (1349), PDF.
Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World, (1693), PDF. Download Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World, (1693), PDF.
Petition of Abigail Faulkner, Sr. for a pardon, http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n52.html. (Links to an external site.)
Samuel Sewall, “The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729,” (1692-1696), http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/diaries/sewall_diary.html (Links to an external site.)
“Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcriiption Project,” University of Virginia, http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html. (Links to an external site.)
Daniel Horsmanden, Download Daniel Horsmanden,A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy, (1744), PDF Download A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy, (1744), PDF.
“Association of the Sons of Liberty of New York” (1773), PDF. Download “Association of the Sons of Liberty of New York” (1773), PDF.
Samuel Seabury, “An Alarm to the Legislature of the Province in New-York,” (1775), Foner, Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1, p. 200.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, (1776), Foner, Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1, p. 201.
