Document B
Historical Background - Former slaves were not at all reluctant to speak and act in accordance with their own visions of freedom. They had waited too long and sacrificed too much to reach this point and let other Americans determine what their future would hold. Yet, like everyone else who intervened in this lively and sometimes deadly debate, former slaves did not share a single vision or understanding of freedom.
Audience - The General
Purpose - To have homesteads.
Point of View - First Point of View.
Y -It’s significant: Having developed in slavery a robust culture and community life in the relative isolation of sea island plantations, the people of the low country entered into freedom with a very distinctive vision of freedom
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Audience - The International Labor Congress in Chicago.
Purpose - The purpose is meant to reduce the hours of work.
Point of View - Third Person Perspective.
Y -It’s significant: This is meant to show how hard the workers are doing their job, but with not receiving enough for their hard work.
Document F
Historical Background - In the United States in the Gilded Age, particularly as this indicates, by businesses that have become monopolies in one way or another, and their control over the political process. This is the period of time when the Senate is beginning to be conceived of as a millionaire’s club, it’s not quite called that yet, but it’s getting there, and certainly the sort of power and influence of business has become palatable.
Audience - For all people.
Purpose - To tell people about the power that these people have over the senate.
Point of View - An Third-person perspective.
Y - It’s Significant: The cartoon reflected the phenomenal growth of American industry in the 1880s, but also the disturbing trend toward concentration of industry to the point of monopoly, and its undue influence on