Chapter 5 and 6 in Give Me Liberty! (textbook)—for context and background
Chapter 5 and 6 in Voices of Freedom (reader)
WRITE: Using the assigned primary sources in your reader listed above, write a 750-1,000 word paper (roughly 3-4 double spaced pages) that responds to ONE of the following questions with a clearly articulated thesis/argument:
Is there a unified sense of American identity presented in the primary sources that pushes forward a consistent desire for independence from Great Britain or are they disjointed? Are there definitive sides to this argument that are pushing for independence or resisting this urge? If there are separate arguments going on, which is the most compelling?
Eric Foner references a “revolution within,” but what does this mean? What is this revolution? Is it running counter to the cause of liberty, equality, and revolution or complementing it? Could the new nation win the revolution against the British, yet lose the internal revolution that Foner references?
SAMPLE CITATIONS:
Pick footnotes OR in-text citations for citing within your paper, including a citation to show where information, ideas, and quotes came from right when you use that information, idea, or quote so your reader knows exactly where it came from. Footnotes are strongly preferred:
Footnote: When in a real paper the citation below would appear at the bottom (or foot) of your page. To insert a footnote in Word, go to “References,” then click “Insert Footnote.”
Example: Thomas Paine, “Common Sense (1776),” in Voices of Freedom, Vol. 1 6th edition, Eric Foner, ed. (New York: Norton, 2020), 97.
In-text citation:
Example: (Paine, “Common Sense,” 97).
NOTE how the footnote and in-text citations above are for the specific document being referenced/used and not the whole book. Eric Foner is the editor, not the author, of the documents and should not be listed as the author unless you are citing/quoting the secondary material (which is permissible as long as you keep it to a minimum).