Directions: In the space provided below, answer the essential question: What caused the Sepoy rebellion? Consider the following: Which events are most significant in causing the rebellion? Which documents provide the most reliable accounts regarding the rebellion? Are the perspectives which are missing or are not considered? How might missing accounts shape the way we interpret and understand the Sepoy rebellion?
Essential Question: What caused the Sepoy Rebellion?
Document A: Gardiner’s History
1) What kind of document is this? When was it written?
It was a primary source and it written in 1891
2) Who was the intended audience of this document?
Young American students
3) What are the author’s main claims about what caused the Sepoy Rebellion?
Rumors that the guns they were using was greased with animal fat and the sepoy didn't support that
4) Do you think this is a trustworthy document? Why or why not?
No for sure
Document B: Colin Campbell
1) Who is Campbell? When was the document written?
2) What are Campbell’s two main claims about what caused the Sepoy Rebellion?
3) According to Campbell, why did the British take control of Oudh?
4) How does Campbell describe the residents of Oudh?
5) Do you think this is a trustworthy document? Why or why not?
Document C: Sita Ram
1) Who is Sita Ram? When was the document written?
2) What are Sita Ram’s main claims about what caused the Sepoy Rebellion?
3) Do you think this is a trustworthy document? Why or why not?
4) How do Sita Ram’s arguments compare to those in Document A and Document B?
Document D: Sayyid Ahmed Khan
1) Who is Khan? When was the document written?
2) What are Kahn’s main claims about what caused the Sepoy Rebellion?
3) Do you think this is a trustworthy document? Why or why not?
Document E: Coohill’s History
1) Who is Coohill? When was the document written?
2) Coohill wrote, “Indians considered this to be a final outrage of British conquest.” What
do you think he meant?
3) What additional information about the causes of the Sepoy Rebellion does this
document provides?
4) Do you think this is a trustworthy document? Why or why not?
Conclusion
Directions: In the space provided below, answer the essential question: What caused the Sepoy rebellion? Consider the following:
- Which events are most significant in causing the rebellion?
- Which documents provide the most reliable accounts regarding the rebellion?
- Are the perspectives which are missing or are not considered? How might missing accounts shape the way we interpret and understand the Sepoy rebellion?
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