Analyze the California Gold Rush (1848–1855) as a multi-community story with simultaneous Indigenous catastrophe
Exercise Difficulty 3 ~6 min hist.g4.s.ex_27

Foreign Miners Tax Analyze

MG-7 Diagram
Federal Archive Card — child-adapted Wineburg 4-question + NMAI fifth-move primary-source analysis tool. 6 boxes: (1) WH

Federal Archive Card — child-adapted Wineburg 4-question + NMAI fifth-move primary-source analysis tool. 6 boxes: (1) WHO MADE THIS? (sourcing); (2) WHEN and WHERE? (contextualization); (3) WHY did they make it — what did they want the reader to think? (sourcing extended); (4) Does ANOTHER source AGREE or DISAGREE? (corroboration — name the other source); (5) WHAT exact words tell us most? (close reading — quote one phrase); (6) WHOSE VOICE is silent in this source, and what would they say? (NMAI 5th move). Used on every federal-archive lesson (4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18). Style: clean diagram with 6 numbered boxes on cardstock, large enough for child writing in boxes.

Prompt

Read Foreign Miners' Tax 1850 excerpt. Apply MG-7 boxes 1, 2, 6: (1) WHO made it? (2) WHEN? (6) WHOSE voice silent?

How it's presented
mode writing on card prompt audio ID audio.g4s.ex 27.stem
Answer criteria
type rubric
rubric
Box 1 California state legislature; Box 2 1850; Box 6 Mexican and Chinese miners
Hints
  1. Tax was $20/month — a fortune
  2. Targeted Mexican and Chinese miners
Misconceptions to watch
  • Missing the discriminatory targeting
  • Wrong jurisdiction (state, not federal)