Tutorial 2: Determine Information Requirements

Imagining Sources Practice Question #3

Imagine the kind of source that would best answer these questions.

Did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 significantly increase black political participation between 1965 and 1975?

Have women's wages kept up with men's during the period 1980-2000?

primary sources (letters, memoirs, and other contemporary documentary sources)
 quantitative sources (statistics)
secondary sources (books and articles by other historians)