HIS 141 O01N Final Exam 2024 Page1of9 This is an open-book, take-home final exam

HIS 141 O01N Final Exam 2024 Page1of9
This is an open-book, take-home final exam.
PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE
BEGINNING WORK ON YOUR EXAM ESSAYS.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL ESSAYS
The exam essays must be entirely your own
work. You must cite all sources of information you
use to write your exam essays, using footnotes after
each fact or piece of information from a source you
read to show where the words or information came
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from.1 You must put every phrase or sentence that
you yourself did not write in quotation marks.
1Please consult the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill Writing Center site for information on
how to cite sources in academic papers at the
following link:
information/chicago-notes-in-text>. Remember that
all citations must include the author, title, source,
date, and the specific page number. If you are
unsure how to add footnotes to your paper in
Microsoft Word, please review the instructions at the
following link:
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Use the assigned course readings and resources
to write your exam. If you need to, you may also
use refereed sources (sources that have been written,
peer-reviewed and verified by scholars or experts)
from the TCC library website to contextualize your
responses. On the TCC library homepage click on
the “Libraries during COVID-19” link under the
“Alerts and News” heading. On the following page,
click on the link to the “Digital Resources Guide” in
the dark blue box on the left-side of the page. You
us/article/insert-footnotes-and-endnotes-61f3fb1a-
4717-414c-9a8f-015a5f3ff4cb>.
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may access the library homepage via the following
link: . You
may NOT use Wikipedia, nor use websites ending
in .com or .net.
Your exam must be formatted in either Arial or
Times New Roman font, in 22-point font (not 12-
point-font!), and double-spaced. At the top of your
paper, include your full name, your VCCS email
address, your course number (HIS 141 O01N), and
the date that you are turning in the final exam.
Name the computer file that contains your exam
with a label like this: DS141FE. That tells me that
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the paper is from David Smith in History 141 and
that it is his Final Exam paper.
Question 1 (Required)
You are applying for a job directing an African
American History Bus Tour for College Students,
now that Covid restrictions have been lifted! The
application requires you to write an essay explaining
an African American History tour that you would
lead, covering the era from 1619 through 1877. The
trip must include sites in Virginia, and may also
include Maryland, Washington, D.C., North
Carolina, and South Carolina. Organize the trip
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logically and thoughtfully. Your trip must have an
overarching thesis or theses. Explain how the
physical sites and the primary and secondary source
documents you assign to your students (and cite in
your essay) will develop the tour’s overall thesis or
theses. Your response to Question 1 must be at least
800 words in length, excluding citations, and may be
up to 1200 words, excluding citations.
HINT: Be specific. Remember to incorporate
what you know from Northup, from Nell Irvin
Painter’s textbook Creating Black Americans, and
from any other assignments for our course. For
example, when you are writing about
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Reconstruction, discuss the document from Norfolk,
Virginia.
Question 2 (required)
Using (and citing) the Painter textbook Creating
Black Americans and the article “Abolitionism in the
United States” by James Sellman2, explain the fight
2 James Sellman, “Abolitionism in the United
States,” Oxford University Press African American
Studies Center. Oxford University Press, December
1, 2006.
.
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Question 3 (Extra Credit: Not Required)
How did what you learned in our course shape your
understanding of the events of the past year? Write a
thoughtful essay in response to this question. Your
answer must connect to themes related to African
American History. You must cite all sources you use
in your paper. Your response to Question 3 should
be at least 200 words in length, excluding citations.