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Week 8 — Midterm Review & Exam

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Why this matters

A nursing student reading a clinic's visit count and a business student checking a sales report against the bank's figure both ask this week's question: where does a number come from, and who did it leave out?

In plain language

This chapter helps you review the first seven weeks before the midterm. Instead of rereading everything, you ask each week for the one distinction it asks you to keep (a line between two ideas that are easy to mix up). You rerun each distinction on an example you have already worked. Then you meet one new source: the first federal census (the count of the country's people that began in 1790), read as a numeric primary source (a source from the time whose evidence is numbers). You finish by asking what the census numbers show, who they counted, and what they cannot prove.

  • Already covered: Weeks 1 to 7, from the worlds before 1607 to Jefferson's First Inaugural Address of 1801.
  • This week: one distinction per week, the first federal census as a numeric source, and the midterm.
  • How they connect: every review example is one you already worked.
  • Where we're going next: Week 9 opens a new unit on Jeffersonian and Jacksonian America.

Focus

What one distinction does each of Weeks 1 to 7 ask you to keep, and how do you read a table of numbers as a primary source?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

  • [ ] state the distinction from each of Weeks 1 to 7, with its years
  • [ ] source the 1790 census schedule and say who it left out
  • [ ] explain the gap of 112 and give the Census Bureau's 3,929,214
  • [ ] tell a pattern in a table from a cause

To-do

Plan your week

  1. Read Chapter 8 (~45–55 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
  2. Work the practice set (15–25 minutes) and do the discussion (about 45 minutes).
  3. Use the midterm study guide and practice exam, then take the midterm on your own.

This week's checkpoint: name the maker, the date, and one missing group for the 1790 census schedule.

You've got this

You have done this work already. Take it one line at a time, and ask your instructor early if a step snags.

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