By reading letters, newspaper articles, speeches, poems, or by viewing photographs or political cartoons from the time period being studied, historians can interpret the events of the past. For this project, you will work with primary source documents in order to further your understanding of a chosen topic..1. Choose a topic. from the following;Colonialism Jacksonian EraRevolutionary War Civil WarConstitution ReconstructionSlavery Westward ExpansionThe time period of the chosen theme must be between the years 1600-1877..2. Find FOUR (4) primary source documents. Some types of primary source documents arespeeches, personal letters, political cartoons, poems, songs, photographs, and newspaperarticles. You are not allowed to have more than two of the same type of document.Written documents should be edited to approximately two paragraphs, but should not be atleast one paragraph. No more than one of these documents can be taken from your textbook.The remaining three must be found by researching the internet, books, and magazines..3. You will categorize the documents into a pair of documents that supports the topic and a pairof documents that opposes the topic. For example: patriots v. loyalists, North v. South, pro-slavery v. abolitionists, etc.4. For each document, write a brief summary of approximately one paragraph thatdescribes what the document is stating or implying.5. After presenting your documents, you will write an essay thatanalyzes the documents you chose and compares the two opposing points of view.including references ..
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