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Hello Can you help my essay exam? This are my histoty mid term exam. There are four questions. I think that each essay is 1-1.5 pages enough . Can you do these essays before wednesday? Because my midterm exam will be on wednesday. I am an international student ,so I need your help. I posted question file and 4 resources files. 30 CHAPTER Source 3: 2 A Summary of the June Assembly’s Laws (1676) The assembly of June 1676, often called Bacon’s Assembly because most of the burgesses (representatives) were Bacon’s supporters, passed a number of reforms. What do these laws reveal about the causes of their discontent? What changes did these laws make in the government? An act for carrying on a warre against the barbarous Indians. Declared war against enemy Indians and ordered the raising of a thousand troops. Bacon was named “generall and commander in cheife of the force raised.” ACT II. An act concerning Indian trade and traders. Prohibited all trade with the Indians, except for “friendly Indians.” ACT III. An act concerning Indian lands deserted. Lands deserted by the Indians reverted to the colony; these lands were to “dispose to the use of the publique towards defraying the charge of this warr.” ACT IV. An act for suppressing of tumults, routs, etc. Every officer and magistrate was authorized to suppress unlawfull “routs, riotts and tumults.” ACT V. An act for the regulateing of officers and offices. Prohibited sheriffs from holding office “more than one year successively,” abolished plural officeholding, regulated fees, and denied office to anyone not a resident of the colony for at least three years…. ACT VII. An act enabling freemen to vote for burgesses and preventing false returnes of burgesses. Repealed an act of 1670 that had restricted the franchise to freeholders and imposed a stiff fine on any sheriff who made a false election return…. ACT XII. Councellors and Ministers families to pay levies, and money allowed them. Removed tax exempt status of conciliar and ministerial families; gave councillors a fixed salary…. ACT XIX. An act of general pardon and oblivion. Pardoned all “treasons, misprison of treasons, murders, fellonies, offences, crimes, contempts and misdemeanors” committed between March 1 and June 25, 1676. ACT I. Apago PDF Enhancer Source 4: Bacon’s Manifesto (July 1676) How does the tone of Bacon’s Manifesto differ from that of the frontier petition? How do you account for the difference? What does Bacon’s attack on Governor Berkeley’s government reveal about his motives? How does Bacon justify his attacks on the Indians? [S]ince we cannot in our hearts find one single spot of rebellion or treason or that we have in any manner aimed at subverting the settled government … let truth be told SOURCE 3: Reprinted in Warren M. Billings, ed., The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606–1689 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), pp. 274–275; originally from William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Richmond, New York, and Philadelphia, 1809–1823), II, pp. 341–365. SOURCE 4: Reprinted in Warren M. Billings, ed., The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606–1689 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), pp. 278, 279. On occasion, minor changes have been made to spelling and punctuation for the convenience of modern readers. Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. REVOLT ON THE VIRGINIA FRONTIER 31 and all the world know the real foundations of [our] pretended guilt…. [L]et us trace these men in authority and favor to whose hand the dispensation of the country’s wealth has been committed. Let us observe the sudden rise of their estates compared with the quality in which they first entered this country or the reputation they have held here amongst wise and discerning men…. Let us consider their sudden advancement and let us also consider whether any public work for our safety and defense … [is] in any [way] adequate to our vast charge. Now let us compare these things together and see what sponges have sucked up the public treasure and whether it hath not been privately contrived away by unworthy favorites and juggling parasites whose tottering fortunes have been repaired and supported at the public charge…. Another main article of our guilt is our open and manifest aversion of all, not only the foreign but the protected and darling Indians. This we are informed is rebellion … whereas we do declare and can prove that they have been for these many years enemies to the King and country, robbers and thieves and invaders of his Majesty’s right and our interest and estates, but yet have by persons in authority been defended and protected even against his majesty’s loyal subjects…. Another main article of our guilt is our design not only to ruin and extirpate all Indians in general but all manner of trade and commerce with them…. Since the right honorable … Governor hath been pleased by his commission to warrant this trade, who dare oppose it? Source 5: Grievances Submitted Apago PDF(1677) to the King’s Enhancer Commissioners What do these grievances from one Virginia county reveal about the situation in the colony before Bacon’s Rebellion? Do they reflect only a desire to complain about conditions in Virginia? Whereas His Majesty’s Commissioners … have commanded us the subscribers, in the behalf of Gloucester County to give in our grievances: in obedience thereunto, we have drawn up our Grievances, and they are as follows. 1. Whereas about 17 years since there was a tax laid upon tobacco shipped in this county of 2 shillings per hogshead by act of [the] assembly, under pretense of defraying the public charge of the county … in order to [prevent] other public taxes…. The county levies hath notwithstanding this tax been ever since as great or more than before. Therefore they humbly conceive the said tax of 2 shillings per hogshead to be a grievance, unless it may be employed as pretended when first raised…. 3. That within this 14 or 15 months, it is conceived [that] there hath been near 300 Christian persons barbarously murdered by the Indians. And after the murder of several numbers of the said persons, the assembly (called for that purpose) ordered 500 men to be raised against the said murderers, by whom forts were erected. We were informed that the commanders of the said soldiers had order not to molest an Indian unless they knew SOURCE: Reprinted in Warren M. Billings, ed., The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606–1689 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), pp. 280–282; originally from Colonial Office 1/39, 244, Public Record Office. On occasion, minor changes have been made to spelling and punctuation for the convenience of modern readers. Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. Passengers Bound for New England, 1634 Recorded in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XV (1861), p. 142. Joseph Hull, of Somerset, a minister, aged 40 years Agnes Hull, his wife, aged 25 years Joan Hull, his daughter, aged 15 years Joseph Hull, his son, aged 13 years Tristram, his son, aged 11 years Elizabeth, his daughter, aged 7 years Temperance, his daughter, aged 9 years Grissell Hull, his daughter, aged 5 years Dorothy Hill, his daughter, aged 3 years Judith French, his servant, aged 20 years John Wood, his servant, aged 20 years Robert Dabyn, his servant, aged 28 years Musachiell Bernard, of Batcombe, clothier in the county of Somerset, 24 years Mary Bernard, his wife, aged 28 years John Bernard, his son, aged 3 years Nathaniel, his son, aged 1 year Rich. Parsons, salter and his servant, 30 years Francis Baber, chandler, aged 36 years Jesope, joyner, aged 22 years Walter Jesop, weaver, aged 21 years Timothy Tabor, in Somerset of Batcombe, tailor, aged 35 years Jane Tabor, his wife, aged 35 years Jane Tabor, his daughter, aged 10 years Anne Tabor, his daughter, aged 8 years Sarah Tabor, his daughter, aged 5 years William Fever, his servant, aged 20 years John Whitmarke, aged 39 years Alice Whitmarke, his wife, aged 35 years James Whitmarke, his son, aged 11 years Jane, his daughter, aged 7 years Oneseph Whitmarke, his son, aged 5 years Rich. Whitmarke, his son, aged 2 years William Read, of Batcombe, taylor in Somerset, aged 28 years [Name not entered] Susan Read, his wife, aged 29 years Hannah Read, his daughter, aged 3 years Susan Read, his daughter, aged 1 year Rich. Adams, his servant, 29 years Mary, his wife, aged 26 years Mary Cheame, his daughter, aged 1 year Zachary Bickewell, aged 45 years Agnes Bickewell, his wife, aged 27 years John Bickewell, his son, aged 11 years John Kitchin, his servant, 23 years George Allin, aged 24 years Katherine Allin, his wife, aged 30 years George Allin, his son, aged 16 years William Allin, his son, aged 8 years Matthew Allin, his son, aged 6 years Edward Poole, his servant, aged 26 years Henry Kingman, aged 40 years Copyright © 2006 UC Regents 52. Joan, his wife, being aged 39 53. Edward Kingman, his son, aged 16 years 54. Joanne, his daughter, aged 11 years 55. Anne, his daughter, aged 9 years 56. Thomas Kingman, his son, aged 7 years 57. John Kingman, his son, aged 2 years 58. John Ford, his servant, aged 30 years 59. William King, aged 40 years 60. Dorothy, his wife, aged 34 years 61. Mary King, his daughter, aged 12 years 62. Katheryn, his daughter, aged 10 years 63. William King, his son, aged 8 years 64. Hannah King, his daughter, aged 6 years 65. Thomas Holbrooke, of Broadway, aged 34 years 66. Jane Holbrooke, his wife, aged 34 years 67. John Holbrooke, his son, aged 11 years 68. Thomas Holbrooke, his son, aged 10 years 69. Anne Holbrooke, his daughter, aged 5 years 70. Elizabeth, his daughter, aged 1 year 71. Thomas Dible, husbandman, aged 22 years 72. Francis Dible, sawyer, aged 24 years 73. Robert Lovell, husbandman, aged 40 years 74. Elizabeth Lovell, his wife, aged 35 years 75. Zacheus Lovell, his son, 15 years 76. Anne Lovell, his daughter, aged 16 years 77. John Lovell, his son, aged 8 years 78. Ellyn, his daughter, aged 1 year 79. James, his son, aged 1 year 80. Joseph Chickin, his servant, 16 years 81. Alice Kinham, aged 22 years 82. Angell Hollard, aged 21 years 83. Katheryn, his wife, 22 years 84. George Land, his servant, 22 years 85. Sarah Land, his kinswoman, 18 years 86. Richard Jones, of Dinder 87. Robert Martin, of Batcombe, husbandman, 44 88. Humphrey Shepard, husbandman, 32 89. John Upham, husbandman, 35 90. Joan Martin, 44 91. Elizabeth Upham, 32 92. John Upham, Junior, 7 93. Sarah Upham, 26 94. William Grane, 12 95. Nathaniel Upham, 5 96. Elizabeth Upham, 3 97. Dorset Richard Wade, of Simstyly, cooper, aged 60 98. Elizabeth Wade, his wife, 6[?] 99. Dinah, his daughter, 22 100. Henry Lush, his servant, aged 17 101. Andrew Hallett, his servant, 28 102.John Hoble, husbandman, 13 103.Robert Huste, husbandman, 40 104.John Woodcooke, 2[?] 105.Rich. Porter, husbandman, 3[?] HISTORY 17A SPRING 2013 STUDY GUIDE FOR MIDTERM READING IDENTIFICATIONS: On the midterm, you will be given five (5) ID terms drawn from the list below or from IDs on the Power Points in lecture. You will have to answer three (3) of these. Your responses to these questions should include not simply a definition or description of the term but a brief explanation of the term’s significance. For example, if you were answering an ID on “Jamestown,” you should not simply say this is a settlement in colonial Virginia. You should also note that this was the first permanent English settlement in America. During the exam, you will have approximately five minutes to answer each ID, so you should gauge what you write accordingly. LEP: predestination; joint-stock company; proprietary colonies; mercantilism; mourning wars; dower rights; Gullah; Old Side; Albany Congress; Proclamation of 1763; virtual representation; committees of correspondence; Phillis Wheatly; popular sovereignty; Northwest Ordinance; Shay’s Rebellion Hollitz, Contending: Bacon’s Manifesto; Novangulus; faction ESSAY QUESTIONS: On the midterm, you will be given one of the following questions. You will have approximately 35 minutes to answer the question. (I am suggesting that you spend approximately 5 minutes on each of your three ID terms, leaving you 35 minutes of the 50 minute period to work on the essay). Your response should draw upon course readings as well as lectures. Your essay response should include the argument of your essay clearly stated in a thesis statement in your introductory paragraph. You may want to plan out your essay before you write. 5 minutes spent outlining your answer before you begin writing will, in the long run, save you time and improve the quality of your answer. 1. [For this question, you will be shown an image from one of our lectures in Week Three of class. If I ask this question on the midterm, the image will be posted on screen for the first 35 minutes of the exam.] What is this object and how was it used? What does its increasing presence in colonial American homes tells us about changes Anglo-American colonists underwent during the middle of the eighteenth century? 2. Consider the manifests listing passengers bound for Virginia and Massachusetts in 1634. How do these passenger lists reflect differences in social life in these two colonies? How do they foreshadow the social development in Northern and Southern colonies? [NB: The passenger manifests are contained on the SmartSite Resources page. You should be sure to bring a clean copy—no notes—of these passenger lists to the exam. We will not supply you with a copy if you are lacking one.] History 17A Spring 2013 Midterm Study Guide 2 3. In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against Virginia Governor William Berkeley. While both men were of aristocratic background, Bacon led a group that was predominantly composed of the backcountry poor against Berkeley and his influential associates. What can Bacon’s Rebellion tell us about the role race and class played in Virginian politics? Do you think that Bacon sincerely had the best interest of the common man at heart or did he have a more sinister aim in stirring up the rabble? [Base your answer upon the excerpt of Bacon’s Manifesto (July 1676) posted on SmartSite.] 4. Gottlieb Mittelberger was a German organist and schoolmaster who traveled to Pennsylvania in 1750. His book about his Journey to Pennsylvania provides one of the more detailed accounts of immigrants’ experienced in eighteenth-century mainland America. Based on the excerpt from his book posted on the course SmartSite page, as well as material we have covered in lecture and reading, how difficult would it have been for that a labouring man, that understands Husbandry,…[to] in a short Time save Money enough to purchase a Piece of new Land sufficient for a Plantation”? Did German immigrants face any special hardships? [NB: The excerpt is contained on the SmartSite Resources page. You should be sure to bring a clean copy—no notes—of these passenger lists to the exam. We will not supply you with a copy if you are lacking one.] 5. Many Antifederalists felt that the Constitution represented a repudiation of the principles of the American Revolution. Do you agree or disagree? Why? In your answer you should consider some of the concerns raised by Virginian statesman Patrick Henry to the 1787 federal Constitution. [An excerpt of Henry’s speeches is posted on the SmartSite Resources page. You should be sure to bring a clean copy—no notes—of these passenger lists to the exam. We will not supply you with a copy if you are lacking one.] History 17A Spring 2012 Gottlieb Mittelberger, Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 “When the ships have landed at Philadelphia after their long voyage, no one is permitted to leave them except those who pay for their passage or can give good security; the others, who cannot pay, must remain on board the ships till they are purchased, and are released from the ships by their purchasers. Many parents must sell and trade away their children like so many head of cattle; for if their children take the debt upon themselves, the parents can leave the ship free and unrestrained; but as the parents often do not know where and to what people their children are going, it often happens that such parents and children, after leaving the ship, do not see each other again for many years, perhaps no more in all their lives. How miserably and wretchedly so many thousand German families have fared, 1) since they lost all their cash means in consequence of the long and tedious journey; 2) because many of them died miserably and were thrown into the water; 3) because, on account of their great poverty, most of these families after reaching the land are separated from each other and sold far away from each other, the young and the old. And the saddest of all this is that parents must generally give away their minor children without receiving a compensation for them; inasmuch as such children never see or meet their fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters again, and as many of them are not raised in any Christian faith by the people to whom they are given….”