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HIS 100 Project Template(1)HIS 100 Project Template
Use this template to address the steps in your Project Guidelines and Rubric. Replace the bracketed text
with your responses. Ensure that you have considered your instructor’s feedback when revising your
work. Proofread the enAre document before submiBng.
Part 1: Crea7ng a Research Ques7on
1.
Describe how your assumpAons, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic.
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My assumpAons, beliefs, and values significantly influenced my choice of topic. I decided to
choose HaiAan independence as my topic because I am actually of HaiAan descent, both my
mother and father were born in HaiA. My parents always talked about HaiA growing up. Both of
my parents and distant family always showed much pride in being HaiAan because of the
country’s history. Growing up my parents always talked about how HaiA became the first Black
republic and fought their independence from slavery in 1804. There are a few beliefs,
assumpAons, and values I have related to my topic. First, an assumpAon that I have is that
HaiAan people are strong. Another belief that I have is that HaiA has been suffering ever since
gaining its independence, because of the debt it owes to France for obtaining independence.
HaiAan independence is valued because it was the start of black independence from slavery. It
shows the courage of my ancestors in a cruel Ame. All of these factors are what influenced me to
choose HaiAan Independence as my topic.
2.
Discuss the significance of your historical research quesAon in relaAon to your current event.
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InvesAgaAng my historical research quesAon about HaiAan independence was truly significant to
the conflict between Israel and PalesAne. Exploring my research quesAon has helped
significantly improve my understanding of the historical roots of the conflict between Israel and
PalesAne. Understanding poliAcal revoluAon from a historical perspecAve provides important
insight to help understand why the conflict between Israel and PalesAne is so important. We can
beVer comprehend the moAvaAon on both sides, their challenges, and the different
perspecAves of the people and naAons involved in the conflict between Israel and PalesAne.
3.
Explain how you used sources to finalize your research quesAon.
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While doing my invesAgaAve research I was able to find sources that helped me improve and
finalize my research quesAon. The historical perspecAve of HaiAan independence and events
from sources helped influence my finalized research quesAon by providing insight into why HaiA
owed the French so much up unAl recent years. The decolonizaAon of HaiA damaged France’s
wealth and economy. HaiA produced 50% of sugar, coffee, and other cash crops for France and
also produced for the global market. HaiA was once considered the wealthiest country because
of its natural resources which significantly benefited the French. The revoluAon caused the
French to lose control of these resources, which then resulted in HaiA paying an unreasonable
amount of debt to France that would have sAll been owed today had it not been waived in 2010.
Part 2: Building Context to Address Ques7ons
1.
Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event.
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The context of HaiAan Independence that influenced the conflict between Israel and PalesAne
would be the slaves revolAng for equality and their independence from the French. The HaiAan
Independence movement was a revolt of the slaves against their masters and representaAves on
the island of Saint-Domingue ruled by the French colony that started in 1791. This series of
baVles began in August 1791 and ended on January 1st, 1804. The slaves overthrew the French
on the island which resulted in their freedom and independence. HaiA became the first Black
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republic and became an independent country ruled by former slaves. HaiAan independence
influences the conflict because the Israeli Jews and PalesAnian Arabs can not compromise on
which territory belongs to which country (U.S. Department of State, 2020). Saint-Domingue and
the slaves that occupied and worked on the island belonged to the French colony. The slaves
fought and won their independence and then governed the island of Saint-Domingue.
2.
Describe a historical figure or group’s parAcipaAon in your historical event.
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There are a few key historical figures whose parAcipaAon was important to the poliAcal
revoluAon that led to HaiA’s independence. Toussaint Louverture was the leader of the
movement, he emancipated the slaves and also negoAated for Saint-Domingue to be governed
by former slaves as a French protectorate (Biography.com Editors, 2014).
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Another important figure was Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a former slave who became one of
Toussaint Louverture's respected generals (Coles, 2020). He led the slaves to the BaVle of
VerAeres on November 18, 1803, and the French forces were defeated (Coles, 2020). On January
1, 1804, Dessalines declared Saint-Domingue independent and renamed it HaiA (Coles, 2020).
3.
Explain the historical figure or group’s moAvaAon to parAcipate in your historical event.
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Toussaint Louverture was moAvated to parAcipate in HaiAan Independence for several reasons.
Toussaint believed deeply in the Catholic religion, and this religion condemned slavery
(Biography.com Editors, 2014). He was also influenced by enlightened philosophers John Locke
and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who wrote the “Equality of Man” (Biography.com Editors, 2014). He
also wanted to provide a beVer life for himself, his wife, and his family.
•
Jean-Jacques Dessalines was moAvated to parAcipate in the HaiAan Independence movement
ajer he learned of Napoleon Bonaparte's plans to re-introduce slavery to Saint-Domingu in spite
of its previous aboliAon by the French General Assembly in 1794 (Coles, 2020). This led him to
join the different groups of mulaVo and black slaves who were fighAng for their freedom (Coles,
2020).
Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narra7ve
1.
Describe a narraAve you idenAfied while researching the history of your historical event.
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There are a few different narraAves that I idenAfied while conducAng historical research on the
poliAcal revoluAon, of HaiAan Independence. A primary source that I found to be interesAng was
Michel EAenne DecourAl’s recollecAon of the events during the slave revolt in Saint-Domingue.
He was a French naturalist and a white man who was living in Saint-Domingue during the slave
revolt. In the “History of the Disasters in Saint-Domingue” by Michel EAenne DecourAlz the
HaiAan independence movement is represented as if it is a disaster that happening. DecourAlz
describes it as a war zone taken over by ravages that just want to kill. He talks as if the slaves are
not even worthy to be free.
2.
ArAculate how biased perspecAves presented in primary and secondary sources influence what
is known or unknown about history.
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Biased perspecAves presented in primary and secondary sources have a heavy influence on what
is known and unknown about history. Bias perspecAves can alter how events are interpreted and
influence how these events are told in the future, viewed by others, and how they are reported
in the media. Biased perspecAves can create biased history because the biased perspecAve
influences the process of historical reconstrucAon following biased preferences.
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3.
IdenAfy the perspecAves that you think are missing from your historical event’s narraAve.
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I believe there are a few narraAves that are missing from the poliAcal revoluAon of HaiAan
independence. A perspecAve that is missing would be the one of the French colony's rulers.
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Saint-Domingue was a French colony before the revolt, so if it was told from their perspecAve
this poliAcal revoluAon would have been described differently. Saint-Domingue was an
important island for the French, by the 1780s it produced about 40% of all the sugar and 60% of
all the coffee consumed in Europe at the Ame (Fuertes, 2010). So I can imagine that the French
colony’s ruler at the Ame was not too pleased about the revolt.
Part 4: Connec7ng the Past With the Present
1.
Explain how researching its historical roots helped improve your understanding of your current
event.
•
Exploring my research quesAon has helped significantly improve my understanding of the
historical roots of the conflict between Israel and PalesAne. Understanding poliAcal revoluAon
from a historical perspecAve provides important insight into understanding the conflict between
Israel and PalesAne. We can comprehend the moAvaAon of both sides, their challenges, and the
different perspecAves of the people and naAons involved in the conflict between Israel and
PalesAne. It relates to the HaiAan RevoluAon because the Israeli Jews and PalesAnian Arabs
cannot compromise which territory belongs to which country (U.S. Department of State, 2020).
The Saint-Domingue island belonged to the French colony. The slaves fought and won their
freedom and occupied the island of Saint-Domingue.
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2.
ArAculate how quesAoning your assumpAons, beliefs, and values may benefit you as an
individual.
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QuesAoning my assumpAons, beliefs, and values during this course has significantly benefited
me as an individual. By challenging my assumpAons,
beliefs, and values I have learned new ways
of thinking and problem-solving. It has challenged my assumpAons, ideas, beliefs, and values
forcing me to ask quesAons and examine my sources. QuesAoning my assumpAons, beliefs, and
values has also improved my self-awareness by providing me with a deeper understanding of
myself and what is important to me and providing me with the tools to make improvements. It
has allowed me to be more flexible and adapAve to new situaAons and ideas. QuesAoning my
assumpAons, beliefs, and values has provided me with a beVer understanding and empathy for
others.
3.
Discuss how being a more historically informed ciAzen may help you understand contemporary
issues.
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I do believe that I should have a responsibility to be historically informed. History is important
because it provides insight into current situaAons and events. If history was nonexistent socieAes
and cultures would have no recollecAon of how they came together, their core values, or the
decisions that have shaped their present society and culture. History provides socieAes with the
knowledge of past failures and to not repeat them. History will also provide an individual with
skills to ask quesAons, study, invesAgate, and research poliAcal, social, environmental, or moral
issues in socieAes that are causing global challenges. It will also provide an individual with the
tools to spot bias in conversaAons, sources, and the media. I do believe that ciAzens should have
a responsibility to be historically informed. History is important because it provides insight into
current situaAons and events. If history was nonexistent socieAes and cultures would have no
recollecAon of how they came together, their core values, or the decisions that have shaped
their present society and culture. History provides socieAes with the knowledge of past failures
and to not repeat them. History will also provide an individual with skills to ask quesAons, study,
invesAgate, and research poliAcal, social, environmental, or moral issues in socieAes that are
causing global challenges. It will also provide an individual with the tools to spot bias in
conversaAons, sources, and the media.
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