What are the focused questions that will help you investigate your research question?

The touchstone templates below will guide you through this process in five steps:
Knowledge: What are the focused questions that will help you investigate your research question?
Comprehension: What have you learned about your issue?
Application: How do your sources connect?
Analysis: How will you use your evidence?
Synthesis: What are the main points you will communicate?
The United States was established on the principles of freedom, rights, and equality—in a society that condoned slavery and unequal rights. It has been a historical struggle to expand and apply those founding principles more inclusively, especially for African Americans, women, and immigrant groups. What have been the key barriers to progress and how have different groups been affected? How have those groups overcome obstacles? What are related current issues and how might they be successfully addressed both now and in the future?

What lessons can we learn from women’s history? What strategies were used and what lessons can we learn from the struggles women faced in the late 1800s–early 1900s and the 1960s–1970s for engaging current and future women’s rights issues?
First But Not Last: Women Who Ran for President. (n.d.). National Women’s History Museum. www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/first-not-last
Hauser, Susan. (2012, May 15). The Women’s Movement in the ’70s, Today: “You’ve Come a Long Way,” But …. Workforce. www.workforce.com/news/the-womens-movement-in-the-70s-today-youve-come-a-long-way-but
Friedan, Betty. (1963). The Feminine Mystique, Chapter 1. National Humanities Center. nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique.pdf
Modern History Sourcebook: The Passage of the 19th Amendment, 1919–1920: Articles from The New York Times. (n.d.). Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Fordham University. sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1920womensvote.asp

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