What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written?

In a 1-2 typed pages in length double spaced using 10 or 12 point font, please write an essay analyzing your chosen primary source document. Attach a copy of the document or a link to the document you selected. A primary source document is an eyewitness account or a document written at the time. Please submit as a word document.

Here are some questions you can ask to to help you analyze the document.

1. List three things the author said you think are important.

2. Why do you think the document was written? When was it written?

3. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Support your answer with a quotation from the document.

4. What does this document tell you about life at the time it was written?

5. Who do you think was the intended audience for the document?

6. What type of document was it, newspaper, letter, etc?

7. What impact do you think it had on society and how does it provide is with historical insight into the past?

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/mckinley.htm

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1901-1950/the-atlantic-charter-1941-august-14.php

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lslips.htm

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/franklin-delano-roosevelt/pearl-harbor-speech-december-8-1941.php

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/franklin-delano-roosevelt/first-inaugural-address-1933.php

http://www.historycentral.com/documents/hatchact.html

http://www.historycentral.com/documents/FDRsecondfirside.html

http://www.historycentral.com/documents/Neutralityact1937.html

http://www.historycentral.com/documents/FDRFourteenthFireside.html

http://www.historycentral.com/documents/UNParticipation.html

http://www.historycentral.com/documents/Brownvs.html

http://www.historycentral.com/documents/CivilRigths57.html

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