History Homwork

Define 10 key terms.

and answer 8 questions in 3-4 sentences using the provided links.

Constructingthe American Past Primary Source Journals

Directions: Read each primary source carefully, taking note of the important themes, arguments, and concepts. Define each key term using the documents as your sources. Then, answer each question using ONLY the sources included in the journal set. Turn in your responses no later than OCTOBER 21, 2013.

Chapter 12

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Document 1: Enrollment act of 1863

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http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/962.htm

· Document 2: Ellen Leonard, “three days of terror”

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http://64.62.200.70/PERIODICAL/PDF/Harpers-1867jan/89-97/

· Document 3: From the Diary of George Templeton Strong

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http://segonku.unl.edu/student_projects/hist970/s07/bhobbs/EyeGeorgeTempletonStrong.html

(a student assignment)

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http://almostchosenpeople.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/george-templeton-strong-on-the-new-york-city-draft-riots/

(a blog) both of these links seem to be pretty much what’s in the book…

· Document 4: To The Laboring Men of New York

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http://www.cowanauctions.com/itemImages/109562

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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/rbc/lprbscsm/scsm0290/001q.gif

· Document 5: Dearly beloved

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http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe12/rbpe124/12403200/001dr

· Document 6: “the raging riot – its character…”

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http://leonardo.lee.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/91770768?accountid=7047

(MyLC login required)

· Document 7: A letter from one of the rioters

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http://leonardo.lee.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/91776283?accountid=7047

(MyLC login required)

· Document 8: 300.00 exemption

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http://leonardo.lee.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/91770508?accountid=7047

(MyLC login required)

· Document 9: Lincoln’s second inaugural address

http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/lincoln_address2.html

Defining Terms: Identify in the context of the documents each of the following key terms. Please express your answer in 3-4 complete sentences that directly reference the documents.

Cooperheads Butternuts The Great Famine Irish Catholics

Enrollment Act of 1863 Ellen Leonard George Templeton Strong

The $300 Exemption Colored Orphan Asylum “A mob is un-American, anti-American”

Probing the Sources: Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Please express your answer in 3-4 complete sentences that directly reference the documents.

1. What types of exemptions were allowed in the Union conscription act of 1863? Why do you think these exclusions were allowed? Were the exemptions justified?

2. What attitudes about gender, class and race were expressed in the accounts of the draft riots?

3. Who and what were the targets of the rioting? Was there a pattern to the violence?

4. What biases do you find in Ellen Leonard’s account of the Riots?

Interpreting the Sources: Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Please express your answer in 3-4 complete sentences that directly reference the documents.

1. Who was responsible for the violence that hit New York in July of 1863? Why?

2. What do the documents tell us about the roles of race and class in the riots?

3. In what ways were the riots of July 1863 similar to and different from contemporary manifestations of violence in Northern Ireland, in South Africa, in the Middle East, or American Cities?

4. How does the history of the draft riots make us see the Civil War in a New Light?