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What does primary source analysis tell us about history?

What does primary source analysis tell us about history? Determine what you see and what questions you might ask to get the big picture. Describe the colors and shapes you see. What do you predict is taking place in the rest of the picture?

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What does primary source analysis tell us about history?

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  1. What does primary source analysis tell us about history? Determine what you see and what questions you might ask to get the big picture.

  2. Describe the colors and shapes you see. What do you predict is taking place in the rest of the picture? Identify what you think this picture makes you think of?

  3. Describe the new details that confirm or change your prediction List a possible where, who, when, and what of this picture. Identify what in this picture makes you think that.

  4. Make a hypothesis about what this represents. Use details from the picture to support your guess.

  5. Why would someone take the time to take this picture?

  6. What questions does this leave you with?

  7. East shakes hands with the West laying at the last rail Joining of the Central and Union Pacific Lines at Promontory Point, Utah 10 May 1869. Union Pacific is on the right.

  8. Evaluate what this picture would represent to a:Southerner, Northerner & Westerner? How does this picture show the continuation & advancement of Manifest Destiny?

  9. What positive effects would the Transcontinental Railroad have on America? What negative effects would the Transcontinental Railroad have on America? How might something that unites East and West further the feelings of Sectionalism in the United States?

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