The first assignment will be a classic 50-minute blue-book essay exam. You will be asked to write one longer essay (worth 60 points) in response to one of two prompt options I will give you and four short "identification essays" (worth 40 points). It is not an open-note exam. If you have special accommodations, please let me know in advance so we can set things up.
How to study. Make as many connections as you can among the key terms and between the key terms and the big themes. Also, see my nifty In-Class Essay Guide for more tips.
You will write an essay in response to ONE question about one or more of these themes on the in-class exam. It will be worth 60% of the grade.
Settlement (motives, patterns, economics, emigration);
Contact and conflict between the civilized and the barbarians in Virginia and New England.
New England v. Virginia.
Role of religion in New England: motives, social characteristics.
Development of slavery and racism in Virginia.
The evolution of colonial societies of NE and VA in the late 17th century into the 18th and the social, cultural and political impact of the Great Awakening.
Civilizational narrative
Barbarians
American exceptionalism
Racialized sorting
Enclosure
Black Legend
Hakluyt
Starving Time
Headright system
Indentures
Tobacco
Comparative advantage
Anglican Church
Puritanism
East Anglia
Middling sorts
Family labor
God's saving grace
Calling
Wordliness
Divine afflictions and punishments
Great Migration
Pilgrims
Push factors
Natural increase
Town Meeting
Freehold
Competency
"City upon a Hill"
Sturdy beggars
Indentured servants
Freedmen
1619
Anthony Johnson
Land hoarding
Indian trade
Tobacco glut
Bacon's Rebellion
Gov. Berkeley
Susquehannock
Slave code (laws)
Condescension
Treating
Racial solidarity
Whiteness
Racial system of slavery
King Philip
Barbarians
Horticulture
Indianize
Property
Vacuum domicilum
Nomadism
Great swamp
Lay participation (laity)
Half-way covenant
Satan
Quakers
Ann Hutchinson
Restoration
Sailors, Fisherman, & Witches
Supernatural meaning
Collective afflictions
Declension
Salem
Jeremiad
Puritan legacy
Congregationalists
Rationalists (Christian rationalism)
Evangelicals
Conversion experience
Cultivation of despair
George Whitefield
Gilbert Tennent
Exhorters
(The test will take place in the Grainger auditorium in the Science Building.)
Do not leave the room. Use the bathroom before the test. If you leave the room during the test block, your test is over.
No electronic devices in your possession. Before the test begins give me your phone, smart watch and any other electronic device.
Sit in the blue seats.
Finish in the allotted time. It's a 50-minute exam. Keep track of the time. I will make sure there is a clock in the room.