Explain Contributions to American Culture
Write a paragraph explaining how African American music and performers contributed to the development of rock-androll and popular music. Consider the African American roots of rock-and-roll and the contributions of African American musicians to rock-and-roll.
Compare and Contrast Review what you have learned about the lives of indentured servants and the lives of enslaved Africans in colonial America. Create a Venn diagram showing some of the similarities and differences. Then, answer the following questions.
Identify two differences between enslaved Africans and indentured servants.
In each of the given sentences, underline the relative pronoun and circle the word to which it refers. Then, underline the verb in parentheses that agrees in number with the word to which the relative pronoun refers.
Gene used to have a calf that (were, was) named Burnsey.
Write C in the blank if the sentence uses commas correctly. _____ Smithson's construction, which does not have a practical purpose, was created by bulldozers.