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Incorporating Background Knowledge with Primary Source Documents

I. Using information that you learned from classroom lessons and activities, outside reading, and the textbook, answer the following question:

Why did some Americans oppose the war in Vietnam?

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II. Examine the following two political cartoons from the Vietnam Era

Source A:

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- cartoon by Doug Marlette, Charlotte Observer

Source B:

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"Now, as I was saying four years ago–"

- cartoon by Herb Block, Washington Post, August 9, 1972

III. Now re-write your paragraph from Part I and expand it to:

▪ include reasons suggested by these two cartoons, or

▪ expand it to include support, as suggested by these cartoons, for reasons you already stated.

Be sure to introduce and explain the cartoons as part of your paragraph.

(The question is: Why did some Americans oppose the Vietnam War?

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