White Advancement 3 The Power Of Words

Part I: Primary Source Identifications (Total: 10 points each = 30 points)

I SELECTED 3 PASSAGES, AND ATTACHED IS THE ARTICLES OF WHERE YOU CAN FIND THEM IN THE BOOK “THE POWER OF WORDS.. DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY VOL.1:TO 1877. ALL INSTRUCTIONS BELOW.

it can be done in about a paragraph as long as all the questions are answered.

Note: Submit your finished exam in a Word doc in the final exam link (under the Assignments tab). If you submit a corrupt file that I cannot open, you will receive a zero on the exam.

Directions: Read and identify 3 passages listed below. Your answer must address:

1) Who is the author and what is his/her position in history?

2) When is the document written, and under what circumstances is it written?

3) What argument is the author making?

4) Why is this passage significant? In other words, what larger theme in US History is this passage speaking of?

1. “The black race, in its servitude to the whites, has undergone an improvement, which the same race, in its state of African freedom, has failed to manifest.By whatever degree, physically and morally, the blacks of the United States are superior to the nude cannibals of Africa, are they indebted to the white race for its active, though not disinterested agency. That process of improvement has not ceased, but is ever progressive in the train of white advancement.”

3.“But of all the ways to hell, which the feet of deluded morals treat, that of the intemperate is the most dreary and terrific. The demand for artificial stimulus to supply the deficiencies of healthful aliment, is like the rage of thirst, and the ravenous demand of famine. It is famine: for the artificial excitement has become as essential now to strength and cheerfulness, as simple nutrition once was.”

4.“And now it only remains for me to say that I think it is a very grave question for the people of this Union to consider, whether, in view of the fact that this slavery question has been the only one that has ever endangered our Republican institutions, the only one that has ever threatened or menaced a dissolution of the Union, that has ever disturbed us in such a way as to make us fear for the perpetuity of our liberty, — in view of these facts, I think it is an exceedingly interesting and important question for this people to consider whether we shall engage in the policy of acquiring additional territory, discarding altogether from our consideration, while obtaining new territory, the question how it may affect us in regard to this, the only endangering element to our liberties and national greatness…