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Problem: Change Over Time Project Proposal
Your project must be focused on u.s. History up until 1877.
Question A. What is the topic, and potential title, of your final project?
Question B. What set of primary sources will you be using in your project?
Question C. What secondary sources will you use?
Question D. What is your research question? The brief answer to your question will be your thesis, or the main statement you will seek to prove with evidence from your primary and secondary sources.
Question E. Provide a justification for why the collection you have put together, or discovered, is important and worthy of study.
Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to:
• Slave narratives
• Laws regarding slavery
• Abolitionist beliefs
• Religious beliefs
• Attitudes toward foreign nations (france, great britain, spain, mexico, etc.)
• Beliefs/laws concerning voting and democracy
• Beliefs/laws concerning technology and industrialization
• Beliefs concerning the american west ("the frontier")
• U.s. Foreign policy
• The presidency
• Work and labor
• The end of the world
• American exceptionalism
• Racism
• Free blacks
• Immigration
• Federalism and anti-federalism
• Native americans
• Nature
• Mormonism
• Agriculture and farming
• Alcohol consumption
• Childbirth
• Women's rights
• Conscription and military service
• Corporal punishment
• Child labor
• Death and dying
• Photography and portraiture.