American History
Final Examination – May 2024 HIS 170-B02 Hybrid — American History 1 – Prof. Maust Final Exam – Take Home Essay – Brooklyn, Section B02 (1:40pm) Both parts of the Final Exam must be completed and submitted by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, May 8. Please contact Prof. Maust [email protected] if you have any difficulty and we will deal with it on a case-by-case basis. 1) Complete Part 1 QUIZ (65 minutes) — questions on the course website -Go to the Course Website; go to Modules; click on Final Exam Pt. 1 – Quiz. You have 65 minutes to complete this portion, so choose a time when you are not likely to be interrupted. The T/F and multiple choice questions will relate to the Terms from Lectures 17-24. 2) Part II – Essay Final Exam Write an integrated essay relating to the course theme of American Exceptionalism that addresses the entire span of the course — See the quotations and question later in this document. -To submit it, go to the course website; go to Modules; find the Final Exam: Pt 2 – Essay & click on it -Attach your document in Word, pdf or Google Docs format and click Save. Prof. Maust is unable to view or download other formats, so please do not submit a Pages or other document. If you submit a Google Doc, be certain to give Prof. Maust permission to see the document. -If you are uncertain that you submitted the essay successfully, please email Prof. Maust [email protected] -Your work must be run through plagiarism and AI checker Turnitin.com. Make sure to cite your sources and to put all direct quotations in quotation marks. This is a take home exam. It is open book – use all the assigned materials and resources in the course. Cite the sources parenthetically when you use them, for example: -A People and a Nation, edition, and page # (e.g., Kamensky, 11th ed., p #) -A Biography of America, episode # (Bio. of America, episode #) -Lecture Notes 1-24 (Maust, Lec Notes #) -Recorded Lectures by Prof. Maust, (Maust, Recorded Lecture #) -Linked materials available through the course website for each lecture. Include the name of the source: (e.g., Declaration of Independence) 1 Final Examination – May 2024 HIS 170-B02 Hybrid — American History 1 – Prof. Maust To earn a good grade, you need to show you have done the reading and other work, can make a coherent argument, and can support your argument with evidence. 1) Put your name, the course, the date, and the assignment at the beginning of the essay. 2) Number your pages. 3) Make an opening thesis statement that summarizes your argument. [That is, answer the question(s)!] 4) Briefly preview the points you intend to make 5) Organize your essay with an introduction, main body, and conclusion 6) Write a minimum of 4 double-spaced pages with standard margins in Times New Roman or Arial typeface. Use twelve-point typeface and double-space between lines. 7) Draw on material from the entire span of time indicated 8) Integrate the TERMS (and other relevant material) as evidence. Put them in BOLD and CAPITAL LETTERS to stand out visually. 9) Support your arguments with specific facts taken from the assigned material and cite the sources 10) When you cite a specific portion of text from one of the sources, you must put quotations in “quotation marks” to indicate you are using the exact words written by another person, and then add a citation. 11) Also use quotation marks when citing from the Lecture Notes or other materials by the professor 12) Remember that the Lecture Notes are in outline format. If using them, you should paraphrase them into complete sentences when necessary 13) The textbook, the Biography of America website and videos, sources introduced for class and linked on the course website, as well as peerreviewed academic scholarship are acceptable sources. 14) At Least 75% OF THE CITATIONS SHOULD BE FROM THE ASSIGNED MATERIALS (i.e., show you have done the assigned work) 15) You may use peer-reviewed scholarly historical works or verifiable primary sources, and they must be cited in full using bibliographical citations in Chicago style. If you are uncertain what qualifies as a peer reviewed scholarly work, you should not use any outside sources. 16) Do not use unapproved and unreliable sources. Wikipedia and all other unapproved online sources are not acceptable and will be penalized. 17) Write clearly and develop your points in detail. Proofread and spellcheck your work before submitting it. Poor writing, spelling, grammatical errors, and too-brief answers will be penalized. 2 Final Examination – May 2024 HIS 170-B02 Hybrid — American History 1 – Prof. Maust 18) Submit your essay in Word, Google Docs, or Adobe Acrobat in the appropriate place on the course website. Integrate at least one term IN BOLD from the 1st portion of the course into your essay: -Maize and the Columbian Exchange – “headright” system -Anne Hutchinson -Iroquois Confederacy -First Great Awakening -Richard Hakluyt – “A Model of Christian Charity” -Wampum -Scots-Irish Integrate at least one term IN BOLD from the 2nd portion of the course into your essay: – “The establishment of an absolute tyranny …” -The Continental Army -Article 1, Section 8 -Whiskey Rebellion -The Louisiana Purchase -The War of 1812 -The Lowell Mills -The Trail of Tears – “all men are created equal” -Articles of Confederation -Anti-Federalists -The Alien and Sedition Acts -The Cotton Gin – “Venerate the Plough” -The Erie Canal Integrate at least three terms IN BOLD from the last section of the course into your essay: – “Old Hickory” and “King Andrew” -Nat Turner’s Rebellion -Abolition -The Republican Party -The Anaconda Plan -Black Churches – “Redeemers” -The Philadelphia Riots -Second Great Awakening – “manifest destiny” -The Emancipation Proclamation -Black Codes -Thaddeus Stevens Essay: Read the following passages relating to three versions of American Exceptionalism: Version 1 – People on a mission from God 3 Final Examination – May 2024 HIS 170-B02 Hybrid — American History 1 – Prof. Maust – “The Lord will be our God, and delight to dwell among us, as His own people, and will command a blessing upon us […]; He shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding [communities], ‘may the Lord make it like that of New England.’ For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity, 1630:” – In the Second Great Awakening of the 1800s, some Americans “believed the United States had a special mission in God’s design and a special role in eliminating evil. If sin and evil could be eliminated, individuals and society could be perfected …” (Kamensky, 11th ed., 294) – “Let us not be over-sanguine of a speedy final triumph. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that just God, in His good time, will give us the right result.” President Abraham Lincoln, (quoted in Biography of America 11) Version 2 – A distinctive and outstanding people – “The English settlers believed unwaveringly in the superiority of their own civilization” to that of the Native peoples. (Kamensky, 11th ed., 42) – “By the mid-1700s ‘Britain’s subjects in North America began increasingly to imagine themselves as a group with shared and distinct concerns.’” (Kamensky, 11th ed., 115-116) – Expanding west, they believed that “Americans had [a] God-given right … to expand their republican and Christian institutions to less fortunate and less civilized peoples.” (Kamensky, 11th ed., 349) Version 3 – Making new representative government(s) and serving as an example of self-government John Adams wrote a friend in 1776: – “When, before,” he asked, had three million people “full power and a fair opportunity to form and establish the wisest and happiest government that human wisdom can contrive?” (quoted in Biography of America 5) According to Prof. Maier: – During the Revolution in 1776, “self-government turned out to be better than the royal government. ‘What everyone dreaded as the greatest misery, they now unexpectedly find their greatest advantage.’ So wrote a group of South Carolinians [….] Carolinians could choose their governors from capable men among themselves, men who, unlike the governors sent by the Crown, knew the state well. Now, too, laws promoted the state’s prosperity, not that of the Mother Country.” (Biography of America 5) 4 Final Examination – May 2024 HIS 170-B02 Hybrid — American History 1 – Prof. Maust Prof. Maier notes that Thomas Paine wrote in 1792: – “[….] because the American nation brought, as Paine put it, ‘a revolution in the principles and practice of governments,’ the American Revolution became a landmark event for all mankind.” (Biography of America 5) Thomas Jefferson, 1826 letter: – The American Revolution was “the Signal of arousing men to burst the[ir] chains […] and to assume the blessings & security of self government.” Throughout the course we have used the concept of “American exceptionalism.” This is the idea that the United States (and the English colonies that preceded it) is unique with a special role or mission in the world. Americans have, throughout history, seen themselves as different from the rest of the world (and have often seen themselves as better). Over the years, Americans have explained how we are exceptional in several ways, including the above examples relating to: 1) Americans are on a religious mission 2) Americans are members of a unique civilization 3) Americans serve as examples of a self-governing republic Consider the period from the first permanent English settlement in 1607 to the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Draw from the above quotations and your knowledge of American history. Which of these three versions of American exceptionalism do you believe was the most important in shaping the perspective and guiding the actions of Americans? Were they all important to some degree? (To put it another way, how did American’s beliefs about their role in the world shape their behavior?) Write an essay explaining your position. Good Luck! 5
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