Graded Assignment
Voices of an Emerging Nation Unit Test Part 2
This test has two parts. Part 1 is computer-scored, and should be completed online. Part 2 is the questions below, which you will need to turn in to your teacher. You must complete both parts of the test by the due date to receive full credit on this test. All of your answers should be complete sentences and paragraphs. (10 points)
1. Based on the readings in this unit, what do the readings in this unit reveal about diversity within the new nation? Use at least three specific examples from the reading selections. Your answer should be at least one complete paragraph. Answer:
(15 points)
2. Throughout history, literature has been used as a form of protest. Choose two selections from this unit and explain why they can be thought of as protest literature. Discuss each selection in its own complete paragraph. Answer: Olaudah Equiano was a slave that had been one since age 11. When he got to the age of 21 his owner allowed him to buy himself off of slavery, and he is telling me in this story about how he felt about being a slave was very horrible for example he said that when he was 11yrs old he was under the deck of the ship with many slaves and he describes how crowded it was,hot and many slaves were getting diseases. Benjamin Banneker letter to Thomas Jefferson was thought of as protest literature because he was writing an almanac to secretary of state Thomas Jefferson in regards to abolishing slavery. Banneker felt that since in Jefferson’s past life he should agree with him that slavery was cruel inappropriate. He uses examples to support himself and in a respectful manner to make Jefferson change his ways. Banneker definitely hit home to Jefferson about abolishing slavery.
(30 points)
3. What are some values that are important to the people who live and work in the new nation? List at least three values and illustrate their importance with evidence from at least three readings. Discuss each example in its own complete paragraph. Answer:
Values that are important to people that live and work in the nations were hope that they could win a war. For example Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called and it encouraged the American troops go forward and fight for there independence even thought that most of the soldiers had died when they fought the British troops. Being fair, Banneker wrote a letter to Jefferson concerning about slavery and how they were treated. He told him that they should be treated like a human being a not like animals and he brought it home by comparing the secretary of state and the slaves and if he was in that position how he would fill. Support is another important value to people who live and work in the nation because without Franklin’s support Thomas Paine wouldn’t have moved to Philadelphia and became a magazine editor and argued that Americans should declare independence after the Battle of Lexington.
