Read the attached chapter from Discovering the American Past:

Read the attached chapter from Discovering the American Past: “‘Women Out of Their Latitude’: Gender in the American Republic.” The chapter will provide you with background about gender in the American Republic and women’s efforts to gain civil and political rights, give you a set of questions to consider, provide a collection of primary source evidence pertaining to the topic, and guide you through the process of considering the evidence. After reading the chapter, develop an answer to the question, “Why was the idea of women’s civil rights so controversial in the antebellum era?”

For your assignment, you will turn in a one-paragraph typed statement of your answer to that question (think of this as an introductory paragraph that lays out your argument and key points) and your notes on the key points and information from the reading that provides evidence of your answer (3-4 typed pages of notes, mostly single-spaced). All text should be typed in single-spaced, 12-point font.

You should use your own words to summarize the main ideas that support your answer; for particular key points, you may quote short phrases from the primary source evidence using quotation marks and indicating the document title of the quote. This assignment is not a paper or essay; you may use bullet points to present your notes. But the reader of your notes should still be able to follow your ideas. I will walk you through some ideas for organizing your claims and supporting evidence.

The key is that you want to show what evidence from the primary source section of the chapter supports the conclusion that you reached about why the idea of women’s civil rights was so controversial in the era before the Civil War.

Your assignment will be graded on the following criteria:

Does the paragraph statement present an answer to the question that fits with the 
historical evidence? 

Does the notes portion of the assignment contain evidence that proves the answer?
Is all 
the relevant evidence considered in the notes?
Do the notes indicate comprehension and analysis of main ideas from the readings?
Remember: notes should capture main ideas and key points – you do not need to re-write the chapter!