Map Analysis Worksheet

Student name__________________________

1. TYPE OF MAP (check one):
____ Raised relief map             ____ Bird’s-eye view
____ Topographic map            ____ Military map
____ Political map                    ____ Satellite photograph/mosaic
____ Contour-line map             ____ Pictograph
____ Natural resource map       ____ Weather map
____ Artifact map                     ____ Other ( )

2. PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF THE MAP (check one or more):
____ Compass                         ____ Name of mapmaker
____ Handwritten                     ____ Title
____ Date                                ____ Legend (key)
____ Notations                         ____ Other
____ Scale

3. DATE OF MAP:

4. CREATOR OF MAP:

5. WHERE WAS THE MAP PRODUCED?

6. MAP INFORMATION
A. List three things in this map that you think are important:
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B. Why do you think this map was drawn?

C. What evidence in the map suggests why it was drawn?

D. What information does the map add to the textbook’s account of this event?

E. Does the information in this map support or contradict information that you have read about this event? Explain.

F. What seems to be missing or is confusing in this map?

G. Write a question to the mapmaker that is left unanswered by this map.

3rd 4th Grade students will identify:
What states are northern / free states versus southern / slave states and name them?

What states have more landmass / are larger?

5th 7th Grade students will identify:
What states have more landmass free or slave? Can you draw any conclusions from this?

How many individual people have slaves?

Designed and developed by the Education Staff, National Archives and Records Administration, adapted by Andrew Gibbs