Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 15

Document Links:

Document 15.1 MARTHA JANE CANNARY BURK, The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane (1896)

Document 15.2 Black Migrants to Kansas (1880)

Document 15.3 A Prostitute’s Contract (1886)

Document 15.4 ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY, Speaking Out for the Right to Vote (1914)

Document 15.5 CAROLINE NICHOLS CHURCHILL, Fighting for Woman Suffrage in Colorado (1909)

Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 15

The following exercises provide an opportunity to use the sources collectively to respond to a guiding question.

Guiding Question: How did various groups of women experience life in the American West in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, and how did the region present them with both new opportunities and severe challenges?

Instructions

Below are three topics that might find a place in organizing an essay responding to the guiding question. This exercise asks you to identify which sources would provide relevant evidence for that topic. Select the best answers for each question. Choose ALL that apply. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 15.16

1. Which of the sources provides specific evidence about an individual woman’s experience in the West in the late nineteenth century? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.1: Martha Jane Cannary Burk, The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.2: Black Migrants to Kansas
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.3: A Prostitute’s Contract
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.4: Abigail Scott Duniway, Speaking Out for the Right to Vote
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.5: Caroline Nichols Churchill, Fighting for Woman Suffrage in Colorado

Question 15.17

2. Which of these documents provides specific evidence about the ways that life in the West improved conditions for and opportunities available to women? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.1: Martha Jane Cannary Burk, The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.2: Black Migrants to Kansas
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 15.3: A Prostitute’s Contract
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.4: Abigail Scott Duniway, Speaking Out for the Right to Vote
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.5: Caroline Nichols Churchill, Fighting for Woman Suffrage in Colorado
Correct: Document 15.1: Burk describes the new experiences and opportunities she had during her trip West and once she arrived. Document 15.2: The women describe the good conditions and new opportunities they found in Kansas. Document 15.4: Duniway describes the opportunities she found in Oregon. Document 15.5: Churchill describes the opportunities she found in Colorado.
Incorrect: Document 15.3: Xin Jin’s contract spells out the conditions of her servitude, all of which would have made her life difficult and oppressive.

Question 15.18

3. Which of the following documents provides specific evidence about the hardships and challenges that women faced in the American West? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.1: Martha Jane Cannary Burk, The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 15.2: Black Migrants to Kansas
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.3: A Prostitute’s Contract
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 15.4: Abigail Scott Duniway, Speaking Out for the Right to Vote
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 15.5: Caroline Nichols Churchill, Fighting for Woman Suffrage in Colorado
Correct: Document 15.1: Burk describes the hardships and challenges she faced in the West, in addition to the opportunities she found. Document 15.3: The contract shows that Xin Jin’s life would have been uniformly hard and challenging. Document 15.4: Duniway explains that she faced some hardships and challenges, in addition to finding new opportunities.
Incorrect: Document 15.2: The women interviewed about their lives in Kansas did not describe hardships or challenges, but rather they focused on the improvements they found in the state. Document 15.5: Churchill described her political activities and views but did not address the hardships and challenges that ordinary women faced in the American West.

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