Part 1: Voices of a People's History of the United States
An online link to a version of the book can be found at:
https://www.mcvts.net/cms/lib07/NJ01911694/Centricity/Domain/155/Slavery%20-%20The%20First%20Slaves%20-%20Documents.pdf
Please circle or underline the correct TRUE OR FALSE response after reading the following statements that refer to stories in the Zinn-Arnove book.
1. "David Walker's Appeal (1830)," starting on pg. 168, basically supports white bigots.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
2. The story regarding Harriet A. Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," starting on pg. 171, partially concerns how slave owners unjustly used Christianity to justify slavery.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
3. In "Two Letters from Slaves to Their Former Masters," on pgs. 180 and 181, the former slaves are essentially teasing and criticizing their former masters.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
4. In Frederick Douglass speech, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," starting on pg. 183, he believes that black people during the slavery era should have celebrated the nation's birthday, but also should have tried to eradicate slavery.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
5. In "John Brown's Last Speech," starting on pg. 187 and "Martin Delany's Advice to Former Slaves (July 23, 1865)," starting on pg. 191, both writers advice blacks to not aggressively fight for liberation because whites might get violent and commit genocide.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
6. In the story, "Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson," on page 58, Banneker, a black scholar, tries to convince Jefferson that blacks have intellectual characteristics and potential.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
7. "Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the Year 1754" on page 72, details how whites really did not have a difficult time when traveling to America by ship or boat.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
8. In the story, "Red-Handed Murder: Negroes Wantonly Killed at Thibodaux, La," starting on pg. 221 and Ida B. Wells-Barnet, "Lynch Law," starting on pg 232, both accounts concern the incredible violence that blacks faced following the Civil War.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
9. The story concerning Mother Jones, "Agitation: The Greatest Factor for Progress," starting on pg. 258, concerns the need for people to organize labor unions.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
10. In W.E.B. DuBois' story, "The Souls of Black Folk," starting on pg. 264, W.E.B. DuBois concludes that black people have contributed many valuable moral and soulful gifts to America.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
11. In Emma Goldman's "Address to the Jury," starting on pg. 292 and Julia May Courtney's "Remember Ludlow!" (starting on pg. 280), the writers believe that the labor movement in America is not necessary for workers' advancement and human rights.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
12. All of the following stories involve fighting for human dignity: Mary Licht, "I Remember the Scottsboro Defense," pg. 320; Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit," pg. 327; Langston Hughes poems of the Harlem Renaissance, pgs. 327, 329; John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath," pg. 350.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
Part 2: MLA Format
REVIEW MLA FORMAT AT https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
MLA EXAM: This "open Web" exam is designed to help you become familiar with the documentation method that you will use to write your upcoming research paper.
Click Link: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
Please provide answers to the following questions based on the link directly above the related questions:
A. MLA Formatting and Style Guide: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
13. What are at least FOUR general guidelines for formatting your MLA paper?
14. When can you use quotation marks and/or italics with respect to your title?
15. What's the required type size, margin(s) and spacing requirements? (Use the back of this sheet if necessary.)
B. MLA In-Text Citations Basics: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
16. If you were to cite page102 in a book entitled, The Angry Path, by Jean Hunt,
for an in-text or parenthetical citation, how would you?
(Provide an example based on this data and the above link).
C. Formatting Quotations: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/03/
17. When is it appropriate to use short quotations?
18. When is it appropriate to use long quotations?
19. What are the general requirements for omitting words in quotations?
D. MLA Works Cited Page - Books: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/
20. How would you format a Works Cited entry for a book with the following information?
Author: Douglass Haines
Title: The Angry Force
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York City
Date of Publication: July 1979
(Provide an example that's based on this data.)
E. MLA Works Cited - Electronic Sources: PLEASE SEE: https://sites.google.com/site/engl1021230335wed113nwsp2017/---your-assignments/-five-paragraphresearchideasessayduewedfeb82017
21. How would you format an in-text or parenthetical citation for the following
Web information? Provide an example that's based on this data.
Author's Name: John Johnson
Title of the article: "The Way of the World"
Mode of Publication: Web
22. How would you format a Works Cited entry out of the following Web data?
PLEASE SEE: https://sites.google.com/site/engl1021230335wed113nwsp2017/---your-assignments/-five-paragraphresearchideasessayduewedfeb82017
Author's Name: Donald Scott
Title: Benjamin Lay Lives
Publisher: America's Civil War.Com
Publication Date: January 1, 2009
Retrieval Date: October 21, 2011
Publication Mode: Web
23. What do the initials MLA stand for, according to the above link?
24. Why doesn't the MLA format no longer require the use of URLs in MLA citations?
Part 3: Family History and Genealogy:
After reviewing the following articles written by me, please circle or underline the TRUE OR FALSE response:
- A PLACE IN HISTORY: Trip to Barbados reveals cultural heritage
- DNA results very surprising
- Camp Spirituals Expose Slave Ancestors' Past
- Family DNA
25. The writer traveled to Barbados to find out more about his father's ancestors. TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
26. Both of the stories involving the writer's DNA indicate that some of the writer's ancestors were from Australia.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
27. The story involving Nazarene Baptist Church relates to the writer attending the camp, eventually realizing that the experience was important for him to conduct research on his family history.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
Part 4: Camp William Penn
After reviewing chapters 2 to 6 (pages 100 to 232) in the Camp William Penn textbook, please read the following statements and circle or underline if they are TRUE OR FALSE.
28. Chapter 2 starts with the great anti-slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass speaking to the 6th USCT Regiment.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
29. One of Douglass' recruiting presentations was postponed, according to an image at the start of Chapter 2.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
30. Although David Bustill Bowser designed and made the battle flags of the black regiments from Camp William Penn, he did not paint images of any people of great historical significance. (See page 108)
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
31. Several members of the 6th USCT (in Chapter 3) from Camp William Penn earned the Medal of Honor for their heroism at the Battle of New Market Heights or Chaffin's Farm.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
32. Many members of the 8th USCT (in Chapter 4) were slaughtered during the Pennsylvania battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
33. Many of the black men from the 22nd USCT (in Chapter 5) hailed from New Jersey with the regiment having a mighty fighting record.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
34. A group of men from the 25th USCT (in Chapter 6) appeared in a very clear photograph that was made in to a popular "lithograph" poster used to recruit other black soldiers during the Civil War.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE
35. Some members of the 25th USCT were so under-nourished that they contracted diseases such as scurvy.
TRUE--------OR-------FALSE