Inquiry Question: How did New England merchants engage in trade with China in the decades immediately following the founding of the United States?
Inquiry Question: What was traded and how?
Inquiry Question 1: What is transportation?
Inquiry Question 2: How have methods of transportation changed over time?
Inquiry Question 3: In what ways has transportation changed Boston's streets over time?
Inquiry Question: What can portraits tell us about the past?
Portraits are primary sources that tell us about the people who appeared in and painted them. In this set, you will look closely at three portraits to see what they show us about the lives of Black people in colonial and revolutionary Massachusetts. What can we learn about individuals? What information remains hidden?