Historical Context and Introduction
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HIS 100 Historical Context Chart
Prompt: To understand your topic, you need to understand the world in which the events related to that topic took place. First, list your research topic and the revised research question you plan to address moving forward. Then, choose two secondary sources related to your research topic and provide the citation for each in the chart. You may use secondary sources from previous assignments. Next, explain in the chart what each source tells you about the historical context of a chosen event and how it relates to your topic. In the last chart column, explain how the context provided by the source will help you write your thesis statement, answering your research question.
The Drafting of the Constitution
1.) What were some of the reasons The Articles of Confederation failed?
2.) How did economic factors lead to the drafting of the United States Constitution?
Historical Context Chart
Research Topic: [List research topic here.]
Selected Revised Research Question: [Write the revised research question you would like to address here.]
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Secondary Source Citation |
Historical Context of Event |
Support Your Thesis Statement |
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10 reasons why America’s first constitution failed | The National Constitution Center. (n.d.). Constitutioncenter.org. https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/10-reasons-why-americas-first-constitution-failed |
[What does this source tell you about the historical context behind your topic? Naturally, with the topic being the drafting of the United States the historical context in this source is mostly political. It explains 10 different reasons the Articles of Confederation, from a political lens, failed.
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[Explain how the context provided by the source will help you support your thesis statement and answer your research question.] It will help me write my thesis statement because it provided me insight on how the Articles gave too much power to the states thus making the government too weak for a functioning system. |
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Henry Knox | Encyclopedia.com. (n.d.). Www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved October 6, 2021, from https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/henry-knox |
[What does this source tell you about the historical context behind your topic? This source gives me information about Henry Knox’s past. Henry Knox was a senior general of the Continental Army and became a senior general for the United States Army later on.
To understand your topic, you need to understand the world in which the event(s) took place.] |
[Explain how the context provided by the source will help you support your thesis statement and answer your research question.] By reading about Henry Knox’s past I was about to get to know his personalities and reasonings that affect the drafting on the Constitution. |
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