Trace how one document is rewritten to attack a different injustice
Three steps, the way the exam actually works: work through the lab, write down your own observations, then answer a 8-point free response. What you recorded goes to the grader with your writing, so a conclusion that does not follow from your own evidence will cost you the point — exactly as it would with a real reader.
Predict before you look
- A later document quoting an earlier one is not evidence that the two authors wanted the same thing. Say in one sentence what it IS evidence of.
- Continuity and change are usually both present. Before you begin, decide what would count as evidence that an idea had changed rather than merely been repeated.
Nothing to submit here — these are to think through, so the prediction below is an informed one rather than a guess.
Commit to an answer now. It is not graded and being wrong costs nothing — the point is to have something specific to reconcile against once you have the data.
Answer every prediction to unlock the lab. A sentence is enough.
Run the investigation
Predictions first
The procedure and the simulation unlock once you have committed above. Observing before predicting is how a wrong intuition survives a lab intact.
Record what you found
This is your reading of the source, not ours. The grader sees them, so your conclusions have to follow from what you actually recorded.
| Year of the Declaration of Independence | |
|---|---|
| Year of the Declaration of Sentiments | |
| Years between the two documents(Subtract the earlier year from the later one.) | years |
| A phrase Stanton keeps unchanged from Jefferson | |
| The most important phrase Stanton changes, and how | |
| Purpose of the Declaration of Independence, in a phrase | |
| Purpose of the Declaration of Sentiments, in a phrase | |
| How the two intended audiences differ |
Answer the free response
You have recorded two documents 72 years apart, one deliberately modeled on the other. (a) Quote the phrase Stanton preserves and the phrase she alters, and state precisely what the alteration does. (b) Using your recorded purposes, explain why reusing Jefferson's language was a strategic choice rather than merely a stylistic one. (c) A classmate argues that because the wording is nearly identical, the Declaration of Sentiments shows that American ideals of equality were unchanged between 1776 and 1848. Using your own data, explain what is right and what is wrong about that claim. (d) Explain what the Declaration of Sentiments is strong evidence for and what it is weak evidence for, and identify one thing a historian would need a different source to establish.
Sign in to have this graded and saved to your progress.