I expect for you to be able to explain your thoughts and feelings in greater detail. I expect for you to understand the importance of being able to prove, convince, and explain the rationale behind any and every statement that you make.
Supporting Details are reasons, facts, explanations, examples, comparisons, descriptions, anecdotes, testimony, steps, and illustrations. They are additional information that clearly identifies key items that offer the reader clarity and insight into your thought process. They fill the holes… they explain the who, what, when, where, why, and how. If you say you don’t agree with the author, your supporting details explain why you don’t agree. If you think slavery was an unconscionable act perpetrated by white people during that era, then your supporting details will clearly explain why you feel that way; give me examples of those “unconscionable acts”, describe how it made the victims feel and how it makes you feel, you will present facts; give testimony or even steps to prevent it or change the narrative. Even if you think slavery was justified for the time and was a “necessary evil”, my expectations are still the same… you must back up your point of view with valid, convincing, and indisputable supporting details.
QUESTION:
1. The Columbian Exchange and its effects on North America and its inhabitants. How did Europeans alter the way of life for native Americans and Africans. How did all three groups contribute to the founding of USA.
2. Why is Bacon’s Rebellion an important historical event? What are some of the consequences of the rebellion for indentured servants, African Americans, and Native Americans? Why did some people in Virginia supported the rebellion.
3. Name and explain two early examples of self-government in the early colonies. Explain how John Locke’s Social Contract Theory contribute to the development of American democracy. Why and how does his theory inspire movements for democracy around the world.
4. Different three slave systems that arose in early colonial America. Think about how geography and demand for different goods like tobacco and fish contributed to different slave systems. How do they contribute to the development of the African American identity/culture?
5. Who are Mestizos? What is the Head right System and how did it contribute to an increase in European Immigration to the Americas? Why did some Europeans buy and sell human slaves? Explain the Stono Rebellion.
