The New Netherlands Blind Spots in Making Moral Judgements
This is a 200 point test; I will divide your score by two to convert your grade to the 100 point scale.
SECTION ONE: IDENTIFICATIONS.
Choose three out of the following five for 20 points each, 60 points total.
1. The differing attitudes of Lord Durham and his son-in-law Lord Elgin toward French speaking Canadians.
2. The New Netherlands Blind Spots in Making Moral Judgements
3. The real reason th59.e British conquered French Canada in 17
4. What happened to Yankeedom’s utopianism as its people became less religious as time went on.
5. Why the Left Coast regional nation could not be said to have a dominant founding or sponsoring region from among the older communities of the United States.
SECTION TWO: PLAUSIBLE STATEMENTS HEFFNER.
Choose three out of the following five for 10 points each, 30 points total. Identify the document, name the person or organization that generated the document, and then justify your choice.
1. England cannot be considered a good mother country, as she treats her North American colonies out of concern for her self-interest and not out of love for them.
2. I have two legacies I want to leave with you, my warning against political parties and my desire that you form trading rather than diplomatic alliances with other countries.
3. My newspaper is meant only to end slavery. I have not given any thought to what might happen to those who have been enslaved once they are free. It is not my responsibility anyway.
4. Just because the North has apparently preserved the Union by winning the war, thereby brining about the end of enslavement, does not mean that the North is guiltless in the national sin that brought the war on in the first place.
5. Our reform movement is no doubt unpopular with many Americans and seems very radical to them. We will take care of that problem by linking our request to that much loved document, the Declaration of Independence.
SECTION THREE: PLAUSIBLE STATEMENTS CANADA.
Choose three out of the following five for 10 points each, 30 points total. Identify the document, name the person or organization that generated the document, and then justify your choice.
1. I had some profound thoughts about humanity being one as I listened to a Christmas broadcast from a radio station of the same country that was bombing the neighborhood where I was staying at that very moment.
2. A Governor General needs to a healer and a reconciler in order to represent the Crown in Canada. So, I am not going to use my position as the Queen’s representative to seek revenge on those who oppressed my immigrant ancestors when they first arrived here
3. Canada has an industrialized nations’ tendency to use far too much of the world’s resources and look at what consequences this has for the rain forest several thousand miles from our country.
4. I believe that all Canadians should have a say in the future of Quebec, it is not just an issue between the people of English and French ancestry.
5. The best way to assert a French-Canadian right to political equality with English speakers is to take part in the political process, even though it is biased against us.
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ESSAYS
Pick two out of the following four for 40 points each, 80 points total.
1. Do you think Bothwell would agree with Woodard’s description of the regional nations of Canada? Explain your position.
2. Explain why Yanekeedom nearly left the Union, but stopped short of doing so at the Hartford Convention
3. How can both Canada and the United States plausibly claim to have won the War of 1812>
4. Explain how English policies toward the people of New Netherland and New France were similar after the English conquered each of these colonies from other European powers.