Making comparisons: Movements of national independence can be defined by the conditions they were opposing as well as the kind of future they were seeking. With these two criteria in mind, what similarities and what differences can you identify among these visual sources and the movements they represented?
Defining points of view: How would you identify the point of view that each of these visual sources conveys? Can you imagine a visual source with an alternative point of view for each of them?
Seeking meaning in visual sources: How do visual sources such as these help to illuminate the meaning of national independence? In what ways are they limited as sources of evidence for historians?