- What does the map tell you about what the mapmaker wanted his audience to know?
- How does the relationship between Champlain and the Native Americans in New France compare the relationship between the English and the Powhattan in Virginia?
- How was "freedom" experienced in early America. Who was "free" and who was not? What were some of the limitations to "freedom"?
Melvin Norman
Hist-2010
Read, Think, Write
· American Yawp, Chapters One and Two
Primary Sources
· Mercator World Map, 1587 Download Mercator World Map, 1587
· John Smith, “ The Starving TimeLinks to an external site. ”
· Samuel de Champlain, “ The Iroquois were much astonished that two should have been killed so quicklyLinks to an external site. ,” c. 1608
· Links to an external site. Massachusetts Body of LibertiesLinks to an external site. (1641), sections 1-8, 85-88, 89-91
· John Winthrop to Sir Nathaniel RichLinks to an external site. (1634)
It is easy to think about the Old World as separate from the New World, as if the forces that shaped the one had no influence on the other. The map in the link above, labeled the Mercator World Map, was produced in 1587. This map was based on a map Geradus Mercator drew twenty years earlier and has much to tell us about European understandings of the "New World" on the eve of European settlement in North American. What people expect and what they get are often very different things. Many Europeans came to the Americas with expectations of what they would find and of what life would be like; but how did those expectations compare with their lived experiences? Drawing your information from the textbook and the above documents, answer the questions below in your first writing assignment. As you construct your essay, consider the following:
· What does the map tell you about what the mapmaker wanted his audience to know?
· How does the relationship between Champlain and the Native Americans in New France compare the relationship between the English and the Powhattan in Virginia?
· How was "freedom" experienced in early America. Who was "free" and who was not? What were some of the limitations to "freedom"?
Your essay must begin with an introduction that starts with a thesis statement. Your thesis statement must respond to the bolded prompt above. Underline or highlight your thesis statement.
Each paragraph that follows must use evidence from the primary sources listed above to support your thesis. You must use at least 3 of the primary sources. Use the information you learned from the textbook to help contextualize the primary sources. Don't guess what they mean. Analyze them using the textbook as background information.
Here are some tools to help you:
· Thesis Development Worksheet Download Thesis Development Worksheet
· Primary Source Worksheet Download Primary Source Worksheet
· Constructing a ParagraphLinks to an external site.
For your essay, double-space your paper, use 12 point font and standard margins. Cite your sources (use MLA or Chicago Manual Style — see the Chicago Manual guide on our home page for help). Your essay should be 1 – 2 pages long.
Save your work as either a Microsoft Word document of PDF file. Name your file YourLastNameWA1 (don't use any special characters in the file name). Submit your completed, proof-read essay to the assignment dropbox by 11.59pm on Friday.
**Note: You will not have access to the writing assignment dropbox if you did not complete the plagiarism quiz during Week 1.