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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Thomas Nast

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[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to analyze two cartoons drawn by Thomas Nast, and to chart the evolution of Northern attitudes toward freedmen during Reconstruction.

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political cartoons, reconstruction
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document-based, historical claim, historical inquiry, dbq, sheg: document based history: reading like a historian: thomas nast, primary source, thomas nast
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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