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Who created this map?

Who is the intended audience?

What is the purpose of the map?

Are there significant events that connect to the time period of the map?

Where on the map are the images placed?

What do you think the images represent?

What phrases are emphasized?

What words do you see?

What images do you see?

What is this a map of?

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Do you see colors on the map?

What does the key refer to?

Are there patterns?

What is labeled on the map?

What cities are labeled on the map? Why?

Why are certain geographical features highlighted?

What time period does the map represent?

What colors do you see more of on the map?

What could this map represent? What is the purpose of this map?

Does the map look like a map of these places today? Why or why not?

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Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina (1724)

Specific questions

What is the scale of this map?

What do the round circles indicate?

What do the connections between the circles indicate?

What do you think the full red figure towards the middle right of the map represent.

Why is there what looks like an umbrella in the bottom left?

What is the hook above the umbrella?

What are the blocks above that?

What are the paired jagged points on the corners of the map?

Why does the map have two bulges

Why does the map have an image of a crown?

Who originally created the map?

What material is this map printed on?

Is this the original copy of the map?

What is the original copy printer on.

What year was this map made?

Do you think meaning was lost in transferring it between materials?

General Questions

What is the scale of the map?

What do the lines on the map mean?

What do these structures represent?

Is this map reliable? Why?

How is the map oriented? How do you know?

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1. What do the colors represent?
2. How are the colors arranged? Where are the different colors found on the map?
3. Who created this map?
4. What do the thick lines represent?
5. What could this map be used for?
6. What do you the straight lines cutting across the map represent?
7. What defines the borders between different regions?
8. Who might have used this map?
9. What do the thin lines represent?
10. What stands out to you?

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Reynolds’s political map of the United States, designed to exhibit the comparative area of the free and slave states and the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

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Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes statistics from the 1850 census and ill.