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Written Document Analysis Worksheet Transcript of Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954 Type of Document (Check one Newspaper Map Advertisement Letter Telegram Congressional Record Patent Press Release Census Report Memorandum Report Other 2. Unique Physical Characteristics of the Document (Check one or more): Interesting Letterhead Notations Handwritten “Received” stamp Typed Other Seals 3. Date(s) of document: 1954 4. Author (or creator) of the document: The United States Senate Position (Title): Senators 5. For what audience was the document written? Congress and the American Public 6. Document information (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.) A. List three things the author said that you think are important: 1. The censure of Joseph McCarthy. 2. Joseph McCarthy was the senator being censured. 3. McCarthy made charges in the press that made the senate look bad. B. Why do you think this document was written? This document was written to document the censure of Joseph McCarthy. C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document. The evidence of Senator McCarthy’s censure was “Mr. McCarthy, is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned.” D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written. 1. Communism was a big threat or something to be scared about. 2. Congressmen did not get along at the time this was written, much like in today’s Congress. E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document: Did McCarthy believe the press would help him in his censure case? Written Document Analysis Worksheet A Third Party (1936) 1. Type of Document (Check one): Newspaper Map Advertisement Letter Telegram Congressional Record Patent Press Release Census Report Memorandum Report Other 2. Unique Physical Characteristics of the Document (Check one or more): Interesting Letterhead Notations Handwritten “Received” stamp Typed Other Seals 3. Date(s) of document: 1936 4. Author (or creator) of the document: Father Charles E. Coughlin Position (Title): Priest 5. For what audience was the document written? Americans suffering from the Depression. 6. Document information (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.) A. List three things the author said that you think are important: 1. Money is controlled by a small group. 2. The production era should have created an economic boom not a depression. 3. Roosevelt made the situations worse with some of his New Deals. B. Why do you think this document was written? This document was written to inform people about the injustices of the rich toward the poor. C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document. The evidence in the document that suggests that depression should not happen is in the sentence “it is inconceivable how such a thing of everything surrounding us, only to be withheld from us because the so-called leaders of high.” D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written. 1. The depression made life hard on most Americans. 2. Roosevelt’s programs did not help at first. E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document: Are you advocating trade instead of paper money? Written Document Analysis Worksheet The Fourteen Points (1918) 1. Type of Document (Check one): Newspaper Map Advertisement Letter Telegram Congressional Record Patent Press Release Census Report Memorandum Report Other 2. Unique Physical Characteristics of the Document (Check one or more): Interesting Letterhead Notations Handwritten “Received” stamp Typed Other Seals 3. Date(s) of document: 1918 4. Author (or creator) of the document: Woodrow Wilson Position (Title): President 5. For what audience was the document written? The World 6. Document information (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.) A. List three things the author said that you think are important: 1. International waters would be ruled by an international body. 2. Weapons would be limited to the minimum of defense. 3. The recognition of states like Russia, Belgium, Austria, and the newly formed Poland. B. Why do you think this document was written? This document was written to make American Foreign Policy clear to Americans and the World. C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in public view. D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written. 1. The United States no longer held an isolationist view of the world. 2. America was becoming a superpower in global matters. E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document: Does winning WWII give America the right to make policy regarding foreign sovereignty? Written Document Analysis Worksheet The Platt Amendment (1903) 1. Type of Document (Check one): Newspaper Map Advertisement Letter Telegram Congressional Record Patent Press Release Census Report Memorandum Report Other 2. Unique Physical Characteristics of the Document (Check one or more): Interesting Letterhead Notations Handwritten “Received” stamp Typed Other Seals 3. Date(s) of document: 1903 4. Author (or creator) of the document: President of the United States Position (Title): President of the United States 5. For what audience was the document written? The Cuban Government 6. Document information (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.) A. List three things the author said that you think are important: 1. There was a treaty signed by Cuba and the United States. 2. The U.S. military occupied Cuba during this time. 3. Cuba gave the U.S. the right in all Cuban affairs. B. Why do you think this document was written? This document was written to outline treaty terms with Cuba. C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document. “The present Convention shall be ratified by each party in conformity with the respective Constitutions of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the City of Washington within eight months from this date.” D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written. 1. The United States had an oppressive policy regarding countries in close proximity. 2. The United States felt that their strength was protection not oppression. E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document: Did Cuba receive the same amount of freedoms found in the United States? Written Document Analysis Worksheet A Populist Speaker Responds 1. Type of Document (Check one): Newspaper Map Advertisement Letter Telegram Congressional Record Patent Press Release Census Report Memorandum Report Other 2. Unique Physical Characteristics of the Document (Check one or more): Interesting Letterhead Notations Handwritten “Received” stamp Typed Other Seals 3. Date(s) of document: 1898 4. Author (or creator) of the document: A Populist Position (Title): Politician 5. For what audience was the document written? Americans interested in politics were the focus of this document. 6. Document information (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.) A. List three things the author said that you think are important: 1. The importance of the newspaper having a political cartoon that was misleading. 2. The Democrats have to run on the black issue. 3. Blacks have held positions for years, but only now are the Democrats using it as a platform. B. Why do you think this document was written? This document was written to get people mad enough to get involved. C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document. “They have left it off, and it is just ‘nigger! nigger! nigger!’ forevermore.” D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written. 1. The United States was very racists at the time. 2. Politicians used black Americans for their own ends. E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document: Why the only issue the Democrats interested in is are the black Americans? Written Document Analysis Worksheet The Ocala Platform (1890) 1. Type of Document (Check one): Newspaper Map Advertisement Letter Telegram Congressional Record Patent Press Release Census Report Memorandum Report Other 2. Unique Physical Characteristics of the Document (Check one or more): Interesting Letterhead Notations Handwritten “Received” stamp Typed Other Seals 3. Date(s) of document: 1890 4. Author (or creator) of the document: National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union Position (Title): Supreme Council 5. For what audience was the document written? The audience this document was written for was the American government and farmers. 6. Document information (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.) A. List three things the author said that you think are important: 1. The farmers did not want anyone but American citizens to own land. 2. The farmers wanted limited government. 3. Money circulation should be in the hands of the people, not the government. B. Why do you think this document was written? This document was written to give demands of farmers to the American government. C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document. “We demand the abolition of nation banks.” This statement starts the list of demands. D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written. 1. Americans did not like illegal immigrants. 2. Americans did not like big government. E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document: What happens if the government does not recognize your requests? Written Document Analysis Worksheet Literacy Test and Poll Tax (1899) 1. Type of Document (Check one): Newspaper Map Advertisement Letter Telegram Congressional Record Patent Press Release Census Report Memorandum Report Other 2. Unique Physical Characteristics of the Document (Check one or more): Interesting Letterhead Notations Handwritten “Received” stamp Typed Other Seals 3. Date(s) of document: 1899 4. Author (or creator) of the document: Unknown Position (Title): Unknown 5. For what audience was the document written? American Voters 6. Document information (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.) A. List three things the author said that you think are important: 1. A reading test is a requirement to vote. 2. A poll tax must be paid in order to vote. 3. A loophole bypassed the reading test for people and their lineage that could vote as of 1867. B. Why do you think this document was written? This document was written to give voters rules and guidelines. C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document. “Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the constitution in the English language and before he shall be entitled to vote he shall have paid on or before the first day of March.” D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written. 1. The laws were unfair towards the illiterate. 2. These laws were made to prevent minorities from voting. E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document: Why was 1867 the cutoff date to exempt individuals from the literacy test? Written Document Analysis Worksheet Dawes Act (1887) 1. Type of Document (Check one): Newspaper Map Advertisement Letter Telegram Congressional Record Patent Press Release Census Report Memorandum Report Other 2. Unique Physical Characteristics of the Document (Check one or more): Interesting Letterhead Notations Handwritten “Received” stamp Typed Other Seals 3. Date(s) of document: 1887 4. Author (or creator) of the document: The United States Congress Position (Title): Congressmen 5. For what audience was the document written? The American people, specifically Native Americans 6. Document information (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.) A. List three things the author said that you think are important: 1. The allotment of reservation land to each Native American. 2. Congress can grant right of way through reservations. 3. Citizenships were granted to Native Americans that left their tribes and lived separately. B. Why do you think this document was written? This document was written in order to allot reservation space to individual Native Americans. C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document. “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.” D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written. 1. Native Americans were not respected by American citizens or the government. 2. Native Americans received a little allotment of land on a reservation when once they roamed North America. E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document: What happens when reservations are overcrowded or run out of land for the Native Americans? Read More