Category: History : History

Primary Document Assignment: Race Relations in America Description
This writing assignment centers on the topic of race relations from the settling of the Americas in 1492 up to the Civil War. Its goal is to challenge you to examine the historical documents from the period that relate to that topic (e.g. the primary sources) and to place those documents in the context of the secondary sources and lecture material from the course. In short, your task is to demonstrate the ability to think like a historian by critically analyzing the types of evidence that historians utilize to make sense of the past and to answer the questions that interest us.
To begin this assignment, select at least three primary sources from the course that offer three different perspectives on the nature and experience of equality and/or inequality in the United States. You might choose, for instance, the primary documents that deal with any of the following:
European or Native perspectives on colonization
Anglo American, Asian, Mexican, or Native perspectives on the West
Anglo or African American perspectives on slavery
You need not pick a single category, such as slavery, but may choose to look at race relations from three different episodes and perspectives in different time periods that intrigue you. Your paper should focus on the primary source documents but also draw on the unit lectures and textbook readings to contextualize those documents.
Objectives
The learning objectives of this assignment include:
the ability to analyze a piece of historical evidence critically;
the ability to use secondary source materials, including the textbook, to situate such historical evidence within its larger historical context;
the ability to articulate your insights in a grammatically correct, formal exposition; and,
to appreciate the complexity of intercultural relations in a pluralistic society.
Thesis Statement 
Your paper needs to contain a clear thesis statement. That thesis statement should make some claim about the character of the various American perspectives on inequality and equality in the United States that you have chosen to examine in your paper. A thesis statement is another word for an argument you are trying to make to me about the sources you have chosen.  A successful paper is not simply listing facts or describing a random selection of sources. As a general rule, it is a good idea to focus on documents that have something in common in order to help you create your argument.
General Words of Advice
read the documents several times carefully;
identify the documents’ authors in terms of time period, region, and historical context;
consider the authors’ purposes, anticipated audience, and their explicit or tacit values and positions on such questions as race, class, religion, nation, and gender;
consider what can (and can’t) be learned from this document; and
study the language of the document, including the nature of its genre (i.e. a personal letter, a political speech, an autobiography, etc.).
Essay Format
Papers are to be 6–8 double-spaced pages and must be presented formally according to collegiate conventions. For example, the upper left-hand corner of the first page should include:
Your Full Name
Title of Course
Name of Instructor
Date
Also:
Provide a title to your essay that captures its content. There is no need for an individual title page.
Include page numbers in the right upper corner, excepting the first page.
Double-space your essay, with the exception of long quotations, which should be indented and single spaced.
Provide citations for the documents and sources you use. Cite these documents with footnotes or endnotes. Do not also include a bibliography for this short paper.
Check both spelling and grammar.
Citations
Use the Chicago Manual of Style for citations, except for document reading sets which should simply read in the footnote: HIS220A, Week 1 Document Set, page number. For any other citations, please see examples of how to cite a book, article, website, or other at: Chicago/Turabian Style: Tools and Resources. For this paper, you only need to cite the primary document as indicated above if it is selected from our course readings. Writing Resource Center: You have resources at NU to complete this type of paper. First, feel free to contact me, your instructor, with any questions you have in advance. Second, please utilize the NU Writing Center, especially if you need help formulating a thesis, writing topic sentences, or addressing grammatical and organizational issues. The Writing Center is available for free to all students and can be accessed at: NU Academic Success Center Writing Coaching.

TMA05
Your project report – consult Chapter 11 or Appendix 2 of Book 2 for guidance on structuring your report
https://openss.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3DIMWKxuRfoy3KC?Q_CHL=qr  link for survey
If you need log in details for Qualtrics to convert it to SPSS software please do let me know.

Supporting point 1:
Technology has allowed us to come to revolutionary advances in healthcare such as, cancer nano therapy, brain machine interfaces, and genome editing.
 Supporting point 2:
Companies have made doorbell cameras, which allow your smartphone to be notified when someone approaches your property, thus increasing security measures.

3 pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed (files will be attached to this request)
1.Provide insightful and a thorough analysis of the event.
2.Explain why you believe this single event caused such intense disunion within the United States that the country was placed on a trajectory toward the American Civil War. 3.Discuss how social, political, and economic dynamics may have played a role in the event.
4. Clearly describe how the event served as a catalyst for the American Civil War.

Essay – The Ottaman Empire
Based on your understanding of the Ottoman Empire’s history and the provided article, discuss the key factors that contributed to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. 
How did internal systems like the timar and millet systems, along with external pressures such as European economic and military advancements, contribute to the Empire’s weakening? 
The decline affected the basics of Ottoman state structure. It coincided with the rise of Europe. In the 17th century, the Ottoman army start losing its power. The Europeans took the monopole with the trade with India, China and penetrated in the Ottoman markets. A number of unfavourable for the Ottomans trade agreements, called Capitulations, gave to the Europeans a footstep for aggressive trade policy. The Europeans started to sell their goods in the empire in a very high price. The empire soon became short of gold and silver. Silver-based monetary system of Ottomans was shaken with the discovery of the New World; the inflation became a serious problem. The Ottoman army, artisans and producers suffered under the new economic conditions.
The specific timar system was another source of problems. It became an obstacle to development of long-term agrarian practices. In cultivation of the land, the Ottomans remained well behind the Europeans.
The millet system, the autonomy of the communities in the frames of the empire, the inability to integrate conquered people into one Ottoman nation with Ottoman self-consciousness, was something that also played a critical role in disintegration of the empire and in formation of national feelings among the peoples in Ottoman provinces in 19th century.
There is another important factor explaining the reasons of Ottoman decline. It is the lack of receptivity. Islamic civilization was profoundly convinced of its superiority. This was a brake against the innovation and implementation of new practices. The West started to move ahead – new technologies, deep political reforms and intellectual awakening – the European transition to modernity and industrialism passed unnoticed by the ruling Ottoman class in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
(https://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/The-Ottomans.php)

The “Great Migration” refers to the large-scale migration of Black southern populations to the northern United States. Write a research paper which investigates the following questions:
What were the reasons for the Great Migration?
What were some of the risks involved for the African Americans who undertook the move?
How did this migration impact American society, culture, and economies?
For the content of the paper you should:
Discuss and reference concepts taken from the course reading material and relevant research. Be sure to address the African-American Migration Experience found at https://www.inmotionaame.org/
Include a title page, an introduction with a thesis statement, a body, a conclusion and a reference page.

Books and Articles (Refer to specific details from the primary source documents. Use the textbook reading to guide your broader understanding of the issues.) Arturo Rosales, Testimonio_ Chapter 1,2 & 3 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
Tejanos Lose Land 1853
Social Bandits
La Colonia Mexicana: A History of Mexican Americans in Houston

Introduction
In Milestone 1 you will practice the work of historians: finding (researching) and evaluating sources (evidence) to answer historical questions (make a claim). You will complete the assignment over two modules.  Specifically, this assignment will help you be able to:
Evaluate what makes a source reputable
Distinguish between primary and secondary sources
Refine your skills in finding academic sources through the library
Answer questions fully, using evidence from appropriate sources
Cite your sources with in-text citations
Format in-text citations and a reference list 
Instructions
Select the global historical event you will research throughout the term and for your Final Milestone Topic.  Select a topic from the HIS 103 Global Historical Events List: GEOGRAPHY The Americas (Central, South & Caribbean)
Spanish (Cortez) siege of Tenochtitlan (1521) (present-day Mexico)
Mexico abolished slavery (1824)
Cuba abolished slavery (1886)
Brazil abolished slavery (1888)
Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) 
Cuban Missile Crisis (1967) 
Sandinista overthrow of Somoza Government (Nicaragua, 1979)
Opening of Panama Canal (1914) Through research, identify at least four sources (one must be a primary source) that have information to help you answer: 
Question 1: What individuals, people, or social groups (gender identity, ethnicity, race, etc.), played a significant role in the global historical event you selected?  What was their role (what did they do)?
Question 2:  What was one cause, or contributing factor, of the global historical event you selected? 
TIPS:  To help identify sources that will help you answer the questions, you should do more than read their titles. Instead, skim the introductions, indexes, and tables of contents, and read selections to determine if they have information to help you answer the questions.  Take notes as you do, including the following information:
–reference information to use for in-text citations & the bibliography
–whether it is a secondary or primary source
–the information (evidence) that will help you answer the questions.
Save your notes from the research – you will submit them for this assignment and use them later in the term.
Complete the three (3) Tables in the Milestone 1 Worksheet for each of the 4 sources you selected using the CRAAP criteria.  Consult the NLU Library’s Evaluating Sources page for more information about applying the CRAAP criteria.

Discuss why it is important that the public be knowledgeable about science and how it applies to the real world.

Read the attached article ” ‘Dual Degrees’: Black Bookstores as Alternative Knowledge Spaces” and write one article précis or review summarizing the scope, thesis, and content of the text as well as any theoretical or evidentiary/factual concerns present in the work. 
The review should be critical and include an analysis of how well the article highlights or resolves issues of significance discussed in the text.
Additional instructions is on the attached Word document.