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Document Analysis 1&5
Directions: Answer the
following prompts for each document. Please label each document separately. Do
not write out each question. Do not submit in essay or paragraph form. Always
include the title of the document! For more information on this assignment and
others in this class, please consult the course materials.
1. Provide
a basic summary of the document that includes the name of the author and date of
publication (Three Sentences) (1 Pt.).
2. Cite
and include one COMPLETE quote from the document that you
think is vital, and explore its meaning in three sentences minimum
of thoughtful analysis (1Pt.)
For this week’s document
analysis respond to the following:
Part 1
Use the provided link for this section
Here is
a link to chapter twenty-five of the American Yawp: http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/25-the-cold-war/ (Links to an external site.)
There is a total of 7
documents and 14 points possible.
Part 2
Use the provided file for this section.
This week’s document analysis comes from
chapters nine and ten from Voices of a People’s History by Zinn/Arnove (Orange
Book).
Chapter 9: Slavery and
Defiance
David Walker’s Appeal (1830)
Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by
Herself (1861)
James R. Bradley, Let

ter to
Lydia Maria Child (June 3, 1834)
Reverend Theodore
Parker, Speech of Theodore Parker at the
Faneuil Hall Meeting (May 26,
1854)
Two Letters from Slaves to
Their Former Masters (1844 to 1860)
Henry Bibb, Letter to William
Gatewood (March 23, 1844)
Jermain Wesley Loguen, Letter
to Sarah Logue (March 28, 1860)
Frederick Douglass, “The
Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (July 5, 1852)
John Brown, “John
Brown’s Last Speech” (November 2, 1859)
Osborne P. Anderson, A Voice
from Harper’s Ferry (1861)
Martin Delany’s Advice to
Former Slaves (July 23, 1865)
Henry McNeal Turner, “On
the Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats
in the Georgia
Legislature” (September 3, 1868)
Chapter 10: Civil War and Class Conflict
An Eyewitness Account of the
Flour Riot in New York (February 1837)
Hinton Rowan Helper, The
Impending Crisis of the South (1857)
“Mechanic”
(Unknown), “Voting by Classes” (October 13, 1863)
Joel Tyler Headley, The Great
Riots of New York (1873)
“Exempt” (Unknown),
“To Go, Or Not to Go” (June 28, 1864)
O.G.G. (Unknown), Letter to
the Editor (February 17, 1865)
Columbus Sun, “The Class
That Suffer” (February 17, 1865)
J.A. Dacus, Annals of the
Great Strikes in the United States (1877)
There are 19 documents
this week worth a total of 38 points.