Assignment
Specifications:
1. Each answer is to be typed, EIGHT to NINE full sentences.
2. Use ONE and ONE HALF sentence spacing (no double spacing).
3. If directly quoting from the book or handout, you must use quote marks.
3. Make sure you cite or annotate your sources.
THE QUESTIONS-respond to FOUR of the following:
1. Refer to article: Shannon, Captivity and Redemption 88-104. Give a specific example and elaborate regarding the trauma experienced by Indian captives? In what ways were their experiences both traumatic and uncertain regarding their fate?
2. Refer to article: Shannon, Captivity and Redemption 88-104. Give a specific example and elaborate regarding how Indians welcomed captives into their culture?
3. Refer to your document: Andrew Burnaby, Burnaby Scoffs at Colonial Unity. Why did Burnaby reject the idea that the American colonies could unify? How did he see the character of the individual colonies?
4. Refer to document: Rights in Resistance. What does the author mean by the "impasse over these competing claims"? Think about this phrase --its dimensions--its implications. What is the main point of the author regarding resistance?
5. Refer to document: Edmund Morgan, The Puritan Ethic and the American Revolution. Carefully read Morgan's argument. What inner strengths and special awareness did American colonists possess that tied some to their Puritan past? How did Puritanism structure American self denial during the Revolution?
6. Refer to document: Bernard Bailyn, Why Did Americans Rebel? Carefully read Bailyn's argument. What inner strengths and special awareness did American colonists possess?
7. Refer to Document: David Hackett Fischer and Gary Nash, Cultural Influences on the Early Colonies. How do these two historians disagree on cultural influences on the early American colonies? Was the origin of the United States Anglo (English) centered or were there other influences? In what ways is this argument one concerning exclusion versus inclusion?
8. Refer to Document: Hector St. John Crevecoeur, "What is an American?"According to French traveler John Crevecoeur, what was an American? How does he present his "vision" of the new American? What made Americans a unique and new people-far different from the European? Give specific passages from this document that expresses this new and exceptional citizen of America.
9. Refer to Document: Arthur Mann, The Creation of American Identity in the Late Eighteenth Century.
According to Mann why was it difficult to have a national identity in multi-cultural America?