HIS 100 Historical Context Chart

Prompt: To understand your topic, you need to understand the world in which the events related to that topic took place. First, list your research topic and the
revised research question you plan to address moving forward. Then, choose two secondary sources related to your research topic and provide the citation for
each in the chart. You may use secondary sources from previous assignments. Next, explain in the chart what each source tells you about the historical context of a
chosen event and how it relates to your topic. In the last chart column, explain how the context provided by the source will help you write your thesis statement,
answering your research question.

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Historical Context Chart

Research Topic: Drafting the U.S Constitution
Selected Revised Research Question: Though our founding fathers had great compromise and faced obstacles from state leaders, they were able to form a
governing document that would lead the people of the United States.

Secondary Source Citation Historical Context of Event Support Your Thesis Statement

VILE, J. (2016). Conventional This source will set the stage on why there was proposal Conventional Wisdom will give me better knowledge on
wisdom: the alternate article V for amendments to the U.S Constitution. the U.S Constitution. It will provide information on
mechanism for proposing what lead us to having a governing document.
amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
University of Georgia Press.
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Meyerson, M. (2009). Liberty's
blueprint : How madison and hamilton
wrote the federalist papers, defined the
constitution, and made democracy s.
ProQuest Ebook
After the war the government, well lack of it, was
putting hardships on the economy. The solution was to
write draft the U.S Constitution.
This source and the context used will help in
understanding what hardships our founding fathers had
to over come. With information on the federalist papers
this will further aid me in understanding the need for a
government.

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