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  1. History Assessments
  2. Sourcing
  3. Civil War and Reconstruction
  4. A Perspective on Slavery
Topic: U.S. History
Historical Skills: Sourcing
Time Period: Civil War and Reconstruction
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Alternative Versions of Assessment

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  • Migrant Mother
  • Reconstruction Riots
  • Antebellum South
  • Inca Fortification
  • Plague Doctor
  • Nashville Riot
  • Lewis Hine
  • Watergate Testimony

A Perspective on Slavery

Like the Slave Quarters assessment, this question requires students to consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of a document as historical evidence. Students with a sophisticated understanding of how to source a document will be able to explain that Henry Nelson's account is useful in that it was informed by his parents, who were enslaved at the end of the Civil War. They will also point out, however, that Nelson was offering secondhand information, making his interview less useful as specific evidence of the conditions facing enslaved people at the end of the war.

Henry Nelson's interview

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  • Italian Atrocities

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  • Louis XVI

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  • World War I Advertising

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  • Migrant Mother

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  • Reconstruction Riots

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  • Antebellum South

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  • Inca Fortification

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  • Plague Doctor

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  • Nashville Riot

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  • Lewis Hine

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