2.) Please briefly describe the political and historical factors that precipitated the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. What are some different accounts of the documents’ purposes? Introduction I will first describe the historical background that led to the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution. After that, I will explain how the historical events influenced the creation of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. I will then analyze the…
Documents 9.2 and 9.3 in Keith Smith’s Stranger Things are both accounts which describe the federal government’s experiment to relocate Inuit from northern Quebec to Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord in the northern Arctic in 1953. However, while both sources recount the government’s experiment the narratives have different perspectives highlighting how people remember events in different ways depending on how they were affected by the outcome. Document 9.2 is a testimony given by Markoosie Patsauq…
questions will be addressed: What is the historical context of this period? Who is the author and what segment of the population was this author attempting to reach? Does the author display a bias? What are the story lines of the document? What does this document reveal about the mentality of slaveholders and their view of the world? How did they justify the institution of slavery? And lastly, what stands out as particularly meaningful and can this historical period and events that transpired…
affect the world. Evidence 2: In Document F, Hippocrates, a physician, repeats part of the Hippocratic Oath. The Hippocratic Oath is still used by doctors today, showing the impact that the Greek ages had on the world as they are still in use today. This shows the peak of Athenian doctors as hundreds of years later the principles created by them are still important to doctors today. Evidence 3: Document C, written by Thucydides, shows a written account of a historical event, in the…
May 2018 Tituba The article “Historical Fiction and Maryse Conde’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem” is based on the French historian’s ideals about the reasons for Tituba to be accused of witchcraft. According to Conde, Tituba was one of the first witches of Salem to be accused based on race, gender, and her native Barbados characteristics on singing and dancing but there is very little access to her historically. There are small traces of Tituba in legal documents of that time. Some…
Primary sources are documents and artifacts that come directly from the past. The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic texts and primary sources that include the “Saga of the Greenlanders” and the “Saga of Eirik the Red.” Both sagas tell similar yet different stories of Norse voyages to North America, a place that Leif Eirikson named Vinland (wine land). The Vinland Sagas tell how the Norse people traveled to North America and created settlements there until a battle with the natives broke out. The…
outline the basic ideas of what it means to be Chicanx. Using this document, we can determine what Mexican-Americans believed to be the root of their struggle and the type of people it would take to overcome it. The manifesto starts off by saying “For all peoples … the time comes when they must reckon with their history” (Mintz 195) and relates to the Chicano struggle by saying “Our struggle, tempered by the American past, is an historical reality” (Mintz 195). To reckon with one’s history is…
by asking students how historical records have helped us understand events of the past. Why would these records be important in the future? I will ask students what are considered primary sources, are there multiple types of primary sources or just one? Instructional Process: We will then analyze a document of the Underground Railroad together. This will give students an understanding of how to analyze a document and what to look for. Once we have analyzed the document we will then as a…
“He who controls the media. Controls the masses” Imagine if someone had the power to simply erase a historical event and anyone associated with it. Not only that, but they could also completely rewrite that historical event. Imagine if someone who said something and the government had them executed. Then in the newspaper the next day he is labelled as a traitor. This is what was happening inside “The Ministry of Truth (minitrue)’ in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”. the warnings, themes…
the Declaration of Independence (Commager, 1963). In that time the document was referred to “The Unanimous…