DUE on date of class topic "The New Republic"

Your final project in the class will require use of the JSTOR (www.JSTOR.org) database. This assignment is designed to help prepare you for that project.

For this assignment you need to locate in the database the following short article:

Political Mobs and the American Revolution, 1765-1776

Arthur Meier Schlesinger

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 99, No. 4. (Aug. 30, 1955), pp. 244-250

The campus library website at http://www.nvcc.edu/loudoun/library/ will provide a free connection to JSTOR from on campus. From the library’s site, click “Magazines”, then click on “JSTOR”. You can save a PDF copy of any article by clicking “download”.

Students may access JSTOR from home using their NVCC email/blackboard user id and password. If you have problems accessing the site after entering your log-on info correctly you may contact the Help Desk 703-426-4141 and ask them to reset their Access flag (Help desk folk should know what this means) Once into JSTOR all articles are full text and free to NVCC students .

1.   To locate the above article you should perform an advanced search.

2.   Limit your search by selecting "Articles" and "History" in the boxes below the search window.

3.   If searching for the article on mobs enter your search in the "exact phrase."

      Enter Arthur Meier Schlesinger, or "Political Mobs and the American Revolution, 1765-1776"

4.   Click on the link for the article.

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After reading the article type up your answers to the following questions.

General Questions

1. What is the thesis (main argument) of this article?

2. What point do you feel that the author made especially strongly? Why?

Specific Article based Questions

3. The author discussed two types of mobs, premeditated and spontaneous. Give examples of each type of mob action. For what purposes did these mobs gather? What limitations did you notice in how the mobs acted?

4. Why did mobs begin appearing in North America in the 1760s? Why were the mob actions so difficult for England to stop?

5. Did all colonists support mob actions? Explain why they did or did not do so.

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