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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Homestead Strike

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[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to use the historical thinking skills of corroboration, sourcing, and close reading to evaluate the reliability of two different accounts of one of the most violent strikes in U.S. history, the Homestead Strike.

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document-based, historical claim, historical inquiry, labor strike, american workers, dbq, industrial era, sheg: document based history: reading like a historian: homestead strike, primary source, homestead strike, 1892
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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