Required length: three substantive posts for eligibility for full credit (first post must be 2-3 lengthy paragraphs and subsequent posts must be at least one lengthy paragraph).
PURPOSE: The purpose of this assignment is for you to practice “doing history” by researching immigration. Do not worry if after reading the documents you feel like you have an incomplete understanding of the topic. No set of sources that a historian uncovers is ever perfect or ever fully reveals what happened and why it matters.The purpose of “doing history” is for you as the scholar to discern the meaning in the sources. This will sometimes involve some frustration and discomfort as you sort out the evidence. Embrace this struggle and you will thrive. After thinking about the primary document PDFs, use your insights and knowledge to craft discussion board responses to the question listed below under “task”.
TASK: For your initial post answer the following questions. In what way or ways do the primary documents reinforce one another in presenting a uniform picture of immigrant life in the late nineteenth century? In what way or ways do the primary documents contradict one another? Pick, describe, and evaluate at least two primary documents to answer each question. Be specific and substantive as you answer these questions.
Citation guidelines–quotes: All quotes must be placed in quotation marks and cited using the parenthetical method, putting the name of or short description of the document in parentheses at the end of the sentence.
Effective quoting: Simply quoting a primary document is not necessarily making effective use of it. You also need to explain what the document means and how that meaning advances your argument. Doing this requires that you draw inferences and synthesize information from multiple sources. In other words, be selective in quoting from the primary documents, and only quote very colorful and compelling language.
Quotes and the textbook: Do not quote from the textbook. Save your quotes for the most provocative concepts contained within the original documents!
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