SCHEDULE UPDATES: Midterm and Slavery Essay Information

10/11 MIDTERM EXAM: Bring a Blue Book
Format:
50% Multiple Choice: 25 of 27 questions (you cross out two that you do not want to answer)
These questions will be taken directly from class notes.

Here are two sample multiple choice questions to show you the level of detail you need:

The French and Indian War ended with the
a. Treaty of Paris of 1763
b. Treaty of Paris of 1783
c. Treaty of Paris of 1898
d. Treaty of Versailles

The Prime Minister of England who signed the Stamp Act was
a. Thomas Hucthinson
b. George Grenville
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. King George III
FOLLOW THIS ADVICE:
Napoleon: “In planning a campaign I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible.”


50% Essay:
I will choose one of the following three questions:a. Why did the English colonize the Americas? What was religious, political, and economic life like in these early colonies?
b. What were the key events that directly caused the American Revolution?
c. What impact did “Common Sense,” and the “Declaration of Independence”
have on the forming of the United States?


SLAVERY ESSAY: due 11/3
The basic idea for the essay is that it is about slavery in the antebellum (pre-Civil War)period. To be more specific, you will be writing about some specific theme, taken from Celia or other readings on American slavery such as the WPA Narratives. You should think about this as an opinion and argument piece more than an essay that traces a bunch of facts.

YOU MAY CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OR THINK ABOUT MAKING YOUR OWN TOPIC BASED ON SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YOU:

1. What was the significance of gender on the slave plantation?

2. Considering Celia, A Slave, and at least two of the Slave Narratives from the American Memory Project what role did violence play in maintaining order on the plantation?
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

3. Compare and contrast Sally Hemmings and Celia.
Here are some good sources on Hemmings:
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/lives/sallyhemings.html#
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings-jefferson_contro.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/

4. Compare and contrast the experience of Celia with someone who lived or died during the HOlocaust. What was the hsitorical nature of these two systems of evil?

5. What was the meaning of music on in the antebellum slave community?
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_slavery.htm
http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm

6. According to Frederick Douglass and other sources, what was more important in maintaining the discipline of the plantation, physical or psychological control?