Women of the American Revolution: DBQs and Primary Sources *APUSH*

This 19-page Primary Source Analysis activity gives students a chance to learn about the contributions and changing roles of women during the Revolutionary Era between 1763 and 1783. In addition, there are two Document-Based Questions (DBQs). Included is a one-page sheet that explains what primary sources are and how to analyze them using specific questions through a process called HAPPY. Primary sources include essays, letters, journal entries, images and cartoons. Each page of primary sources includes questions. There is also a page at the end for students to apply the HAPPY process to one source. An Answer Key to all the questions and the HAPPY process is available at the end of the packet. This is excellent practice for all high school students, particularly Honors and AP students, but all students will find these resources engaging.

Students can read this on their own as a homework assignment or it can be a group activity in a classroom. It is also ideally suited for home-schoolers, college students or independent learners who want to learn more. Teachers can assign just a few sources to analyze or the entire packet. Student time will vary. Each page includes questions based on the primary sources, along with an Answer Key. There is also an answer key for the DBQ prompts.

There is also an Easel Activity which allows students to answer the questions at the end of each primary source online. For homework purposes, Home Schoolers or for asynchronous learning, this is an especially valuable digital option .

This is part of the Women in American History Series which will (eventually) include the following PowerPoint lessons as well as Reading Assignments and Worksheets, Analyzing Primary Sources and Activities on the following topics:

Native America Women: Pre-Columbian Era through 1810
Women in Colonial America
Women in Revolutionary America
Women in the New Nation
Women and Westward Expansion
Women in the Antebellum Era
Women and the Early Women’s Rights Movement
Women and the Civil War
Women in the West
Women in an Industrializing Nation
Women in the Progressive Era
Women and the Suffrage Movement
Women in World War I
Women during the Great Depression
Women in World War II
Women Return to the Home
Women Call for Change and Equality
Women Establishing New Boundaries

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