Materials needed:
• Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World, Chapter 3. (Cite as Games.)
• Selections from Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States through Foreign Immigration (1835).
(Cite as Immigrant Dangers.)
• Thomas Dublin, ed., Immigrant Voices, Chapter 2. (Cite as Dublin.)
• Thomas Dublin, ed., Immigrant Voices, Chapter 3. (Cite as Dublin.)
Assignment: Compare European migrants’ experiences in America between the seventeenth century (as described in Games) and the nineteenth century (as described in the documents). What were the similarities and differences?
What aspects of the European experiences in America changed and remained somewhat the same over the two centuries?
Instructions:
• You must use Games AND at least two of the document sets (
Imminent Dangers, Dublin Ch. 2,
and Dublin Ch. 3).
• You must use at least 4 quotations (“”) from Games. You also must use at least 4 quotations from the document sets you selected. If you use Dublin, be sure to quote the documents written by Irish or German immigrants in the nineteenth century, NOT Dublin (editor)’s explanatory notes on pp. 63-65, 82-85.
• Your paper should be 5 full pages long.
• Double spaced; 12-point font, Times New Roman; Standard 1-inch margins on all sides.
• When you quote the documents, provide the author’s name and the page number within parentheses at the end of the sentence.
Example: In a letter to her uncle, Catharine Bradley admitted that “I was very fortunate in getting a good situation as soon as I did (Dublin, p. 65).” No formal footnotes/endnotes are necessary for this assignment.
• Submit your paper as a WORD document to “Assignments” on bCourses.
• You are strictly prohibited from using any external sources other than the four materials mentioned. Violators will be penalized.
• Carefully review rules for academic integrity to avoid the unintentional violations of the rules. If anything is
unclear, ask us before submitting your paper.
Grading
Your paper will be graded on five criteria.
1. Thesis: Does the paper make a clear and persuasive claim in the first paragraph? Does the paper as a whole
support the thesis?
2. Structure: Is the paper organized well? Does it have an introduction, body, and a conclusion? Is the structure of the paper logical? Does each body paragraph have an effective topic sentence? Is the transition between paragraphs smooth? Does the introduction succinctly set up the context for the paper and introduce the thesis?
3. Analysis: Does the paper effectively analyze sources and offer a persuasive interpretation? Does the paper use specific examples from the sources to substantiate claims? Is the paper analytical, rather than descriptive?
4. Citation: Does the paper follow the rules for citation correctly?
5. Language and Clarity: Is the paper written in a clear and polished language? Is the paper carefully proof-read? Is the paper free from spelling and grammatical errors?