For the midterm, you will be analyzing a primary source document. Choose ONE of the primary source documents found at the end of Chapters 6 and 7 of your textbook. Answer the following questions as fully as you can based on your chosen source. You need to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the source. Please be sure to also cite the primary source document in APA format.
Chapter 6:
– Ida B. Wells, “Race Woman”
– The Woman Who Tolls
– The Higher Education of Women in the Postbellum Years
– The New Woman
Chapter 7
– Representing Native American Women in the 19th century
– The words of Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute Activist
– Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House
– Jacom Riis’ Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Women
What is the primary source talking about or representing? Write one sentence summarizing this source.What is the primary source talking about or representing? Write one sentence summarizing this source.
What evidence in the primary source helps you know why it was written or created? Provide direct evidence from the source.What evidence in the primary source helps you know why it was written or created? Provide direct evidence from the source.
Is there anything about the source that surprised you? Does the source appear to confirm or disconfirm your prior knowledge of the topic? Explain.
Is there anything about the source that surprised you? Does the source appear to confirm or disconfirm your prior knowledge of the topic? Explain.
What research questions does the source raise? What research questions does the source help you to answer?What research questions does the source raise? What research questions does the source help you to answer?
What was the significance of the source at the time it was created? Do the ideas and values reflected in the source appear to differ from the ideas and values of the present? How?What was the significance of the source at the time it was created? Do the ideas and values reflected in the source appear to differ from the ideas and values of the present? How?
Is there any missing evidence, or evidence you expected to find in the source but did not? Elaborate and provide your own perspective on the source. Is there any missing evidence, or evidence you expected to find in the source but did not? Elaborate and provide your own perspective on the source.
DuBois, E. C. and Dumenil, L. 2019. Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
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