Using your Word software, write detailed essay answers to the following questions. Upload and submit your answers as the appropriate assignment within Canvas. Remember to write all of your answers in your own words, do not copy from the textbook, any Internet websites, or any other sources. Doing so constitutes plagiarism and will result in a zero for the exam. DO NOT COPY. NEVER COPY. EVERY SENTENCE MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Any time you use words from any source you MUST put those words in quotes and immediately cite your source. FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL RESULT IN ZERO FOR THE EXAM. Specifically, once you submit your exam you will have access to an originality report from Canvas via a program called Turnitin.com. You do not need to submit your essay through Turnitin.com as your exam will automatically go through this program once you submit your exam within Canvas. Please check this originality report after you have submitted your exam. You will see a percentage associated with the Turnitin.com originality report. This report MUST be under 10% and should be close to 0% as you are writing entirely in your own words and not copying from the textbook or any other source. IF your originality report is over 10% you will receive a 0 for your exam. IF you do have an originality report over 10% then you should immediately redo your exam entirely in your own words and resubmit the exam. ONLINE EXAM ONE PART 1 – ESSAY Provide a descriptive analysis of TWO of the following questions (50 points): CHOOSE TWO OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR ESSAY QUESTIONS AND WRITE YOUR ESSAYS ONLY OVER THOSE TWO QUESTIONS. Each question will count for 25 points. I expect at least a full page essay for each of the two broad essays that you answer. CHAPTER ONE – THE NEW WORLD: 1. From where did the first inhabitants of America come? Describe the various Native culture groups. Compare the Natives of MesoAmerica to those of North America – why the different levels of development depending on the region. Which region was the most developed and why? What factors led to European expansion and “discovery” of America? Why were the Spanish able to so easily conquer the Native tribes they encountered? CHAPTER TWO – COLLIDING CULTURES: 2. Compare and contrast pre-Columbian America and Europe at the time of New World discovery. Describe the cultural differences separating Europe from Native America. What factors led Europe to discover the New World when it did? Explain the motivations causing the various different European efforts to explore the New World, particularly those of Spain versus other European countries. Describe the result of the European contact with the Natives. Describe the early English efforts to settle and colonize the New World. What attracted the actual settlers to the New World? What obstacles did the various different English settlements encounter in the New World. What adaptations did the English settlers experience as a result of the New World environment? Who were the Puritans, how did they differ from other religious groups in England? What was it that attracted Puritan settlers to the New World? Compare and contrast the Puritans with the other religious groups that settled in the Northern Colonies. CHAPTER THREE – BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: 3. Describe how slavery shifted from being a traditional and historic practice based on economics to a new type of slavery based upon race. Describe the economics of the Middle Passage. Describe the early English efforts to settle and colonize the New World. What were the push/pull factors leading to British migration to America? What attracted the actual settlers to the New World? What obstacles did the various different English settlements encounter in the New World. What adaptations did the English settlers experience as a result of the New World environment? CHAPTER FOUR – COLONIAL SOCIETY: 4. Explain the expansion of Atlantic trade and specifically how it applied to the British colonial relationship. What were the pros and cons of this trade based upon mercantilism for the colonies? Did it contribute to colonial growth while also limiting the colonies? Describe colonial economic and population growth. Explain the gradual Americanization of the colonies, how colonial politics evolved separately from England. What effects did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening have on colonial Americanization? How did the Atlantic Exchange affect slavery in the colonies? Explain how slavery expanded in some colonies while declining in others. PART 2 – TERMS Identify and explain the SIGNIFICANCE of TEN of the following terms (50 points): CHOOSE AT LEAST TWO TERMS FROM EACH CHAPTER AND WRITE ESSAYS OVER THOSE TERMS. Each term from each chapter will count for five points. You will write on a total of TEN terms. I expect a full paragraph for each of the terms that you answer. CHAPTER ONE 1. Three Sisters 2. nuclear vs. extended families 3. Pueblos 4. encomienda 5. Leif Erikson CHAPTER TWO 1. Columbian Exchange 2. Black Legend 3. Treaty of Tordesillas 4. Calvinism & predestination 5. Protestant Reformation CHAPTER THREE 1. Glorious Revolution 2. Dominion of New England 3. Bacon’s Rebellion 4. King Phillip’s War 5. William Penn CHAPTER FOUR 1. Jonathan Edwards 2. George Whitfield 3. Seven Years War 4. Proprietary colonies 5. Benjamin Franklin SAVE YOUR ESSAYS TO YOUR COMPUTER, SUBMIT THE FILE CONTAINING YOUR EXAM ESSAYS WITHIN CANVAS IN THE ASSIGNMENTS DROP BOX AS EXAM ONE.
