Documents to be examined-You will be assigned one document for analysis.

Written Document Analysis

1. / TYPE OF DOCUMENT (Check one):
___ Newspaper
___ Letter
___ Patent
___ Memorandum / ___ Map
___ Telegram
___ Press release
___ Report / ___ Advertisement
___ Congressional record
___ Census report
___ Other
2. / UNIQUE PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF THE DOCUMENT (Check one or more):
___ Interesting letterhead
___ Handwritten
___ Typed
___ Seals / ___ Notations
___ "RECEIVED" stamp
___ Other
3. / DATE(S) OF DOCUMENT:
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4. / AUTHOR (OR CREATOR) OF THE DOCUMENT:
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POSITION (TITLE):
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5. / FOR WHAT AUDIENCE WAS THE DOCUMENT WRITTEN?
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6. / 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

  • 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
  • MassachusettsSchool Law of 1647
  • Earliest Protest against Slavery

Unit II

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
  • TennesseeValley Act
  • Twentieth Amendment
  • Twentieth-first Amendment
  • Stinson Doctrine
  • Neutrality Acts of 1937

Unit X

  • 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

  • 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, JohnsHopkinsUniversity
  • The TonkinGulf Incident
  • Johnsons Statement on American Intervention in the Dominican Republic

Unit XII

  • Nixon’s Statement on the Invasion of Cambodia
  • New YorkState Anti-abortion Law
  • Twenty-sixth Amendment