Please choose one of these main topics: Slavery during the Antebellum period, abolition, or the New.

Please choose one of these main topics: Slavery during the Antebellum period, abolition, or the New York draft riots (1848 – 1865). STAY WITHIN THE TIME FRAME.  Your source should come from between 1848 and 1865.

After you have chosen your topic, use the internet to find a primary source related to your topic.

And remember – a primary source can also be a political cartoon or image.

Tell us your chosen topic and then complete a primary source analysis for your chosen source by answering the questions below.  Ane for where you got the information (APA format). What type of source is it? (political document, letter, flier, cartoon, drawing, illustration, poster, map, etc.) When was it created? Who is the author/cartoonist/etc.?  What is important about that person that will provide us some insight into his beliefs to help us better understand the source? What is your analysis of the source? Summarize the source, explain what information people today can learn from the source and whether they may be biased in the source (and they’re almost always is).