FIRST EXAM
\nOlwell – HIS 315K \u2013 Spring 2023
\nYou will have until midnight on Monday, February 13, to submit your exam (as a single worddoc) on to the course canvas page. At the top of the first page, please write your name, then
\n\u201cOlwell – HIS 315k – Spring 2023,\u201d and \u201cFirst Exam\u201d.
\nPart I: Expository Essay (750-1000 words, 50 points)
\nSelect one of the following four questions and write an expository essay in answer to it. Your
\nanswer should use complete sentences and contain paragraphs, an introduction, and a conclusion.
\nSupport your points and arguments with specific evidence and examples taken from the lectures
\nand readings whenever possible. In particular, you should draw upon the primary readings
\ncontained in the Presence of Past, and to quote or paraphrase short (no more than one sentence)
\npassages from these documents as appropriate. Since you will have four and half days to write your
\nessay, you may use this time to consult the readings, look over your notes, and also review any of
\nthe recorded lectures (or just the relevant parts of them). However, no additional research beyond
\nthe material provided in class is required. All submitted essays will be evaluated by the \u201cturn-it-in\u201d
\nsoftware included on canvas. Essays that show a strong correlation to others submitted in the class
\nor to sources on the inter-net will be flagged. Your completed essay should be between 750 and 1000
\nwords long. It should be added to your answer to the primary passage analysis (see below) to form
\na single word-document and submitted onto canvas no later than midnight Monday, February 13.
\n1. Explain how the changes that had occurred in England over the course of the 16th-century both
\ninspired and were reflected in Richard Hakluyt\u2019s promotional pamphlet: \u201cInducements for the Liking
\nof the Voyage Intended Towards Virginia.\u201d How did Hakluyt\u2019s plan as to how the English should
\ncolonize America draw upon England\u2019s particular \u201cskill-set\u201d (or culture) as opposed to the \u201cskills\u201d
\nthat the Spanish brought to their own colonization enterprise? What part were the natives supposed to
\nplay in Hakluyt\u2019s original scheme for Virginia and in the initial business model adopted by the Virginia
\nCompany of London? How might the images contained in John White and Theodore DeBry\u2019s book:
\n\u201cThe True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Part of America Now Called Virginia\u201d seem to
\nvalidate these hopes and plans? Use the historical events that ensued in both Virginia and, later, in
\nNew England, to evaluate the possibility of trade as a means to peacefully \u201ccivilize\u201d (and colonize)
\nnatives. Ultimately, was trade just another mode of conquest? Why? Why not?
\n2. As they landed in America, both Spanish Conquistadores and English Puritans published (or
\npronounced) documents that explained and justified what they were doing in terms that were religious
\nbut also legal and contractual. Describe the historical circumstances that inspired the creation of both
\nthe \u201cRequerimiento\u201d and the \u201cModell of Christian Charitie.\u201d How did each document reflect the plans
\nand world-view of the people who wrote and\/or published them? What was the ostensible purpose of
\nand audience for each document? Do you think this may have differed from their actual audience and
\npurpose? If so, how? If we read each document as a \u201ccontract,\u201d how would you describe their various
\n\u201clegal\u201d claims and requirements? What role was accorded to God in each \u201ccontract\u201d? What were the
\nproscribed rights and duties of the documents\u2019 publishers (Conquistador or Puritan)? Where did the
\nnatives fit in? If the ensuing colonial project did not go well, on whom did each document place the
\nblame, and who would be \u201cjustly\u201d subject to punishment?
\n3. Explain why, beginning in 1618, there was a great demand for labor in colonial Virginia. Why
\nwas \u201cunfree labor\u201d best able to satisfy the need (or greed) of Virginia tobacco planters? Describe the
\nsystem of unfree labor which supplied most of Virginia\u2019s tobacco workers for the next fifty years.
\nHow did this system meet the basic requirements (or hopes) of both planters and workers? Describe
\nseveral of the factors: demographic, economic, political, and\/or cultural, that persuaded wealthy
\nVirginia planters to begin to shift toward using enslaved Africans as their main source of labor after
\n1660 or so. Give specific examples of some of the laws that were passed by the Virginia elite in this
\ndecade to create the legal \u201cchains\u201d by which some people (and their children) were to be defined as
\nthe perpetual property of others. Do you think Edmund Morgan, in his essay \u201cSlavery and Freedom
\nthe American Paradox,\u201d adopts a Marxist (materialist) or the Hegelian (idealist) approach to history
\nwhen he suggests that slavery came before racism in Virginia? Explain.
\n4.) What was at stake when the Virginia court asked Thomas(ine) Hall in 1629: \u201cWhether he were
\nman or woman?\u201d? Describe the early modern concept of patriarchy and how it drew upon both the
\nbible and the family to justify and conflate the rule of men over women and the king over his subjects.
\nWhat was a woman\u2019s role according to English law and custom? (Explain what that legal custom was
\ncalled, and why.) When Englishmen sought to transplant their ideas and practices about gender to
\nAmerica, their cultural \u201cseed\u201d spilled onto very different ground and produced different results. What
\nfactors: demographic, religious, and\/or economic, reinforced or undermined the power of patriarchs
\nin early Virginia and New England? Why were women \u201cthe usual suspects\u201d in witchcraft cases? How
\nwas the witch, as depicted in popular belief, the antithesis of the \u201cGood Wife\u201d? Using patriarchal
\ncriteria, how (when) was Mary Rowlandson, as she describes herself and her actions in her captivity
\nnarrative, behaving as a dutiful \u201cGood Wife\u201d? How (when) was she out of her \u201cproper place\u201d?
\nPart Two: Primary Document Analysis (c. 500-750 words, 50 points)
\nBrief extracts taken from four of the primary documents that we have examined in class are printed
\nbelow. First, choose one of them, identify it and describe its historic context (that is: explain when,
\nwhere, why, and by whom it was made). Then, focus upon a specific section (a single sentence or
\nshort phrase) from your chosen passage and explain how it is particularly revealing about the goals
\nand ideas of the person (or people) that wrote it.
\nFirst Document Extract:
\n. . . They neither carry nor know anything of arms, for I showed them swords, and they
\ntook them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron, their darts
\nbeing wands without iron, some of them have fish\u2019s tooth at the end, and others being pointed in
\nvarious ways. They are all of fair stature and size, with good faces, and well made. I saw some
\nwith marks of wounds on their bodies, and I made signs to ask what it was, and they gave me to
\nunderstand that people from other adjacent islands came with the intention of seizing them, and
\nthat they defended themselves. I believed, and still believe, that they came here from the main
\nland to take them prisoners. They should be good servants and intelligent, for I observed that
\nthey quickly took in what was said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made
\nChristians, as it appeared to me that they had no religion. I, our Lord being pleased, will take
\nhence, at the time of my departure, six natives for your Highnesses, that they may learn to speak.
\nSecond Document Extract:
\n\u2026 But, if you do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with
\nthe help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in
\nall ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church
\nand of their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall
\nmake slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command;
\nand we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as
\nto vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him; and we
\nprotest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their
\nHighnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us. And that we have said this to you
\nand made this Requisition, we request the notary here present to give us his testimony in writing,
\nand we ask the rest who are present that they should be witnesses of this Requisition.
\nThird Document Extract:
\n\u2026. For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are
\nupon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so
\ncause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through
\nthe world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all professors
\nfor God\u2019s sake. We shall shame the faces of many of God\u2019s worthy servants, and cause their
\nprayers to be turned into curses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whither we are
\ngoing.
\nFourth Document Extract:
\n\u2026 Whereas the only law in force for the punishment of refractory servants resisting their
\nmaster, mistress, or overseer cannot be inflicted upon Negroes, nor the obstinacy of many of them
\nbe suppressed by other than violent means, be it enacted and declared by this Grand Assembly if
\nany slave resists his master (or other by his master’s order correcting him) and by the extremity of
\nthe correction should chance to die, that his death shall not be accounted a felony, but the master
\n(or that other person appointed by the master to punish him) be acquitted from molestation, since
\nit cannot be presumed that premeditated malice (which alone makes murder a felony) should
\ninduce any man to destroy his own estate.
\n===
\nTo answer the selected question, you should follow this general structure:<\/p>\n
I. Introduction<\/p>\n
Provide a brief overview of the topic and state the thesis statement.
\nMention Richard Hakluyt and his promotional pamphlet.
\nII. Body<\/p>\n
Discuss the changes that occurred in England during the 16th century.
\nDescribe how the changes inspired and reflected in Richard Hakluyt\u2019s promotional pamphlet.
\nDiscuss how Hakluyt\u2019s plan for colonizing America was different from the Spanish colonization.
\nExplain the role of natives in Hakluyt\u2019s original scheme and the initial business model of the Virginia Company of London.
\nEvaluate the possibility of trade as a means to peacefully colonize and \u201ccivilize\u201d natives.
\nUse historical events to support the arguments.
\nIII. Conclusion<\/p>\n
Summarize the key points discussed in the essay.
\nRe-state the thesis statement.
\nProvide final thoughts and insights on the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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