Documents to be examined-You will be assigned one document for analysis.
Written Document Analysis
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TYPE OF DOCUMENT (Check one):
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Map
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AUTHOR (OR CREATOR) OF THE DOCUMENT:
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FOR WHAT AUDIENCE WAS THE DOCUMENT WRITTEN?
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DOCUMENT INFORMATION (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.)
A. List three things the author said that you think are important:
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B. Why do you think this document was written?
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C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document.
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Unit I
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Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
Mayflower Compact
First Charter of Massachusetts
John Winthrop’s City upon a Hill, 1630
Maryland Toleration Act
Frontier Grievances from Pennsylvania
Massachusetts School Law of 1647
Earliest Protest against Slavery
Unit II
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Navigation Act of 1660
Stamp Act
Intolerable Acts
Quartering Act
Galloway’s Plan of Union
Navigation Act of 1696
Resolution of the Stamp Act Congress
Declaratory Act
Townshend Revenue Act
American Account of the Battle of Lexington
English Account of the Battle of Lexington
Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Alliance with France
Treaty of Paris-1783
Unit III
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Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty
Articles of Confederation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Shay’s Rebellion
Judiciary Act of 1789
New Jersey Plan
Virginia Plan
Constitution
Federalist Papers
Washington’s First Inaugural Address
Proclamation of Neutrality
Bill of Rights
Jay Treaty
Eleventh Amendment
Washington’s Farewell Address
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolves
Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address
Jefferson o the importance of New Orleans
The Cession of New Orleans
Twelfth Amendment
The Embargo Act
Napoleonic Decree (Berlin)
British Orders in Council
The Hartford Convention
Jefferson’s Message on Burr Conspiracy
Unit IV
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Madison’s War Message
Non-Intercourse Act
Macon’s Bill, No. 2
Rush-Bagot Agreement
Adams-Onis or Transcontinental Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
Monroe’s Veto of Cumberland Road Bill
Missouri Compromise
Nationalism of President J. Q. Adams
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Jackson’s Veto of Maysville Road Bill
Jackson’s Veto of the Bank Bill
Jackson’s Message on Removal of Southern Indians
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Nullification of Force Bill
Unit V
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Polk’s Reassertion of Monroe Doctrine
Compromise of 1850
Resolution of Nashville Convention
Constitution of Brook Farm Association
Seneca Falls Declaration and Resolutions
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown’s Raid
South Carolina Ordinance of Secession
President Buchanan on Secession
Unit VI
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Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
Jefferson Davis’ Inaugural Address
Constitution of the Confederation States of America
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Black Code of Mississippi
Wade-Davis Bill
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Unit VII
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Dawes Act
President Arthur on the Indian Problem
Powell’s Report on the Arid Region of the West
Preamble of Constitution of the Knight of Labor
Altgeld-Cleveland Controversy
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Pendleton Act
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Populist Party Platform of 1892
Bryan’s Cross of Gold Speech
Republican Party Platform of 1896
Democratic Party Platform of 1896
Coxey’s Program
Unit VIII
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Roosevelt’s New Nationalism Speech
Platform of the Progressive Party 1912
Platform of the Socialist Party
Concentration of Wealth: Final Report of Committee on Industrial Relations
Declaration of the Conservation Conference
Sixteenth Amendment
Seventeenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Annexation of Hawaii
Open Door in China
Platform of American Anti-Imperialist League
Senator Albert Beveridge’s Salute to Imperialism
Platt Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
Convention with Panama for Construction of Canal
Dollar Diplomacy
Alfred T. Mahan on Sea Power
McKinley’s War Message
The De Lome Letter
The Zimmerman Telegram
Woodrow Wilson’s War Message
The Fourteen Points
The Lodge Reservations
Unit IX
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Preamble of Industrial Workers of the World
Immigration Act of 1924
Vanzetti’s Last Statement in Court
McNary-Haugen Bill
Lafollette Platform of 1924
Hoover’s Rugged Individualism Speech
Naval Limitation Treaty
Four Power Pact
Nine Power Treaty
Democratic Platform of 1932
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address
Recognition of the Soviet Union
National Labor Relations Act
Social Security Act
Reform of the National Judiciary
Tennessee Valley Act
Twentieth Amendment
Twentieth-first Amendment
Stinson Doctrine
Neutrality Acts of 1937
Unit X
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Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech
The Lend-Lease Act
The Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt’s message asking for war Against Japan
Yalta Conference
The Act of Chapultepec
Japanese Relocation Order
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The North Atlantic Treaty
The Recall of MacArthur
Unit XI
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American Intervention in Guatemala
The Eisenhower Doctrine
The U-2 Incident
The Vandenberg Resolution
Taft-Hartley Act
McCarren Internal Security Act
Senate Censure of Senator McCarthy
Constitution of the AFL-CIO
Twenty-second Amendment
Kennedy’s Message on the Peace Corps
Kennedy’s Proposal for the Alliance for Progress
The Bay of Pigs: Ambassador Stevenson’s Statements
The Berlin Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
The Warren Report
Social Security Amendment of 1965
Southern Declaration on Integration
Eisenhower’s Address on the Situation in Little Rock
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Twenty-Third Amendment
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Twenty-fifth Amendment
Johnson’s Speech on Vietnam, Johns Hopkins University
The Tonkin Gulf Incident
Johnsons Statement on American Intervention in the Dominican Republic
Unit XII
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Nixon’s Statement on the Invasion of Cambodia
New York State Anti-abortion Law
Twenty-sixth Amendment