Safe Topic – you must still complete all yellow sections that are not already filled in, including in # 1 and # 4.
Your name: ___________________________________  The date: _______________
Note: I will only say “no” to your proposed topic if I do not believe there is enough content on your proposed topic in our textbook, the primaries you marked, or other resources in our course. I want you each to do something of interest to you, but I do want to make sure your odds are good for your success.  
3 Cautions:  Before you submit your proposal:
1.	Read carefully the primaries to be sure they will support the topic you want to write about. 
2.	Identify the pages from the required textbook be sure it supports the topic you want to write about. 
3.	Be sure the topic itself is limited enough that you could cover it clearly and usefully in a maximum of 330 words (1 page, doube-spaced, using the exact margin and font setting in the file provided for this assignment.
1. Mark an X beside in the yellow underlined area for each statement to show that you understand that you must:
__ Not start writing until you get feedback from me (The earlier you submit the proposal, the earlier the feedback.)
__ Provide supporting and specific page numbers from our textbook for what you say
__ Use at least 3 primaries from the list below with those primaries (and your topic) spread out over at least 2 Units
__ Follow the instructions in this link and in the file provided for your Analysis
__ Follow each of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence
2. The Safe Topic is Compare working conditions for Africans or African Americas as revealed by 3 primaries_
3.  The Safe Primaries for the Safe Topic are marked with an X and yellow. You must use only these primaries.
Mark	Unit	Chapter #	Name of the Primary with the Chapter	Phrase When Citing	
	1	1	Requerimiento of 1510	Requerimiento	
	1	2	Tolerance as Maryland Defined It	Charter-Maryland	
	1	2	Religious Tolerance in the Charter of Rhode Island  …  Roger Williams	Charter-R. Island	
	1	2	Quotations from New England-Bradford, Winthrop, Hooker…	Quotations	
X	1	2	1660 to 1732 Laws about Slaves and Indentured Servants  	Laws-Servitude	
	1	2	1627 -The contract for an indentured servant who was to receive 50 acres…	50 Acre-Indenture	
	1	2	1676 Bacon’s Rebellion: The Declaration	Bacon-Declaration	
	1	3	Ben Franklin	B. Franklin	
	1	3	Jonathan Edward	J. Edwards	
	1	4	Declaration of Independence	D. of Independence	
	1	4	Stamp Act Declaration of Rights and Grievances	Stamp Act D.	
	2	5	Articles of Confederation	A. of Confederation	
	2	5	General George Washington on the fatal consequences	G. Washington	
	2	5	The Constitution – searchable online  …	Constitution	
	2	6	Alexander Hamilton - Report on Manufacturing 	A. Hamilton	
	2	6	Thomas Jefferson - a Nation of Independent Farmers	T. Jefferson	
	2	7	Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Journals	Lewis & Clark	
	2	8	In support of building the Erie Canal	Erie Canal	
	2	9	John Quincy Adams on the agitation and future of the Missouri Compromise	J.Q. Adams	
	2	10	Excerpt from an annual message to his people, Chief John Ross	J. Ross	
X	3	11	Sojourner Truth - Aint I a Woman - Women's Convention - 1851	S. Truth	
	3	12	 Selected excerpts from Harriet Robinson, Early Factory Labor in New England	H. Robinson	
	3	13	California Gold Rush - a letter from William Walker	W. Walker	
	3	14	Collection of Civil War Medicine Photographs - Norton Publishers	Photographs	
	3	14	Excerpts from the diary of nurse Amanda Akin	A. Akins	
	3	14	Walt Whitman - A poem, A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and…	W. Whitman	
	3	15	Catherine Ann Devereux Edmonston, Diary Entries of …	Southern Plantation	
X	3	15	Agreement between Landlord and Sharecropper, 18th day of January, 1879	Sharecropper	

4.  List the pages from the textbook that you plan to use in your Analysis. You should have at least 3 sets of pages, one set for each primary.
For the 1st primary, these pages from the textbook provide essential context: ____________________________________________________________

For the 2nd primary, these pages from the textbook provide essential context: ___________________________________________________________
For the 3rd primary, these pages from the textbook provide essential context: ____________________________________________________________