UTA HIST1302 Skill 3 Analyzing Primary Documents Latest 2021 November

HIST1302 US History since 1865

Skill 3: Analyzing Primary Documents

Question 1Who is the author of this document?

  Booker T. Washington

  Louis R. Harlan

  History Matters

  W.E.B. DuBois

 Question 2If you read a speech by an individual in a book of great speeches published 75 years later, what date for the primary source (the speech) should you use in your analysis of the document?

  the date the speech was given

  the date the speech was published in the collection of documents you are reading

  the date the speech was first published in any form

  the date you accessed the collections of speeches from an Internet website

 Question 3The date you should use for the document you are evaluating is

  1895

  1974

  2005

  2017

Question 4Who is the audience for this speech?

  White Southerners

  Black Southerners

  White and Black Southerners

  White and Black Southerners and immigrants to the South

 Question 5Where a speech is given is an important element to consider when analyzing the document. Where does the action in this document take place?

  an international exposition promoting trade, technology, and the products of the South

  at the Tuskegee Institution

  before a gathering about business and trade called by President Grover Cleveland

  before the state legislature in Atlanta, Georgia

 Question 6Which is the most correct analysis of the role of bias in analyzing documents.

  Since all authors have innate biases, it is the historians role to better understand the motivations of the author to place his/her comments in context.

  If a document has bias, it cannot be used in historical research.  Historians should seek out neutral observers.