EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers

EXERCISE 63–7Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers

Read the student passage and determine if the student needs to cite the source of the information. If the material does not need citation because it is common knowledge, click on Common knowledge. If the material is not common knowledge and the student should cite the source, click on Needs citation.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 1 of 10: In Rwanda in 1994, a civil war left hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 2 of 10: Tong wars erupted in New York’s Chinatown in the early decades of the twentieth century, giving that neighborhood the city’s highest murder rate.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 3 of 10: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, as he sat watching a play.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 4 of 10: After the Civil War, forty thousand former slaves had successful farms on the Sea Islands of South Carolina—the only place in the South where African Americans owned sizable quantities of land.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 5 of 10: The eruption of a volcano on the island of Krakatau in Indonesia in 1883 spewed dense volcanic dust high into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and lowering temperatures worldwide for months.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 6 of 10: The US invasion of Cambodia in 1970 led to antiwar protests on many college campuses.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 7 of 10: A Sherpa named Tenzing Norgay helped guide Edmund Hillary to the top of Mount Everest in 1953.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 8 of 10: General George Custer and all of his men were killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 9 of 10: The underground railroad provided shelter, guides, and assistance to runaway slaves as they made their way north to freedom.

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EXERCISE 63–7 Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers - 10 of 10: Beginning in March 1988 and continuing for seventeen months, Saddam Hussein had his air force drop poison gas on more than two hundred Kurdish villages and towns in Iraq.