Revisit the research agenda from Activity 4. In that activity, students were asked to identify answers to the following questions: 

• What are the areas of disagreement between the different sources? What are the facts upon which they agree and disagree?
• After hearing a range of perspectives about the Freedman’s Bureau, what questions do you have about the Bureau and its work? Formulate 3–5 questions that could potentially be answered through research.
• What additional sources or kinds of information would be most helpful in addressing the questions raised?

Students should use the agenda along with any other relevant questions from the completion of activities to complete a research project that includes an introduction with relevant background information to provide context for the research, the specific research question(s), the approach to analyzing data or sources, findings and implications for their understanding and our current socio-political context.