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1 Name: Date: Block: THE WESTWARD EXPANSION DBQ After examining the documents contained in this packet you will construct a well-written paragraph essay, following the RAISE format. The essay must be neatly written and include quotes and evidence from the primary sources. DOCUMENT BASED QUESTION This question is based on the accompanying documents. It is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents. Some of the documents have been edited for the purposes of the question. As you analyze the documents, take into account the source of each document and any point of view that may be presented in the document. Task: Using the information from the documents and your knowledge of Social Studies, answer the questions that follow each document in Part A. Your answers to the questions will help you write the Part B essay in which you will be asked to, Discuss the United States policies towards the Native Americans, and the Native American response to those policies. Answer: Was the United States fair and justified in their policies towards the Native Americans in the Southeast? Part A: Short Answer Questions Directions: Analyze the documents and answer the short-answer questions that follow each document in the space provided.

2 DBQ Document 1: Trail of Tears Painting Guiding Questions: 1. List 2 images within this picture that show that the Trail of Tears might have been a voluntary removal of Cherokees from their native lands. 2. List 2 images within this picture that show that the removal was forced by U.S. government and that the Cherokees did not want to leave. 3. Was the United States fair and justified in their policies towards the Native Americans in the Southeast?

3 DBQ Document 2: Jackson s Letter Guiding Questions: 1. What does Jackson promise the Cherokees if they move to a new land, as he suggested they do? 2. What do you think will happen if the Native Americans do not relocate? 3. Was the United States fair and justified in their policies towards the Native Americans in the Southeast?

4 DBQ Document 3: The Trail of Tears Poem Guiding Questions: 1. What does the author think about the promises of the U.S. government? 2. How does this poem contradict (go against) the letter by Jackson about the benefits of relocation for the Native Americans? 3. Was the United States fair and justified in their policies towards the Native Americans in the Southeast?

5 Part B: Letter- Essay Directions: Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, 1 body paragraph, and a conclusion. Use evidence from all documents to support your essay. Support your response with relevant facts, examples, and details. Include additional outside information. Task: Write a letter to President Jackson in response to the Big Question. Be sure to restate the question in your introduction, and explain your reasoning. Was the United States fair and justified in their policies towards the Native Americans in the Southeast? Guidelines: In your essay, be sure to: Develop all aspects of the task Incorporate information from all the documents Incorporate relevant outside information Support the theme with relevant facts, examples, and details Use a logical and clear plan of organization, including an introduction and a conclusion that are beyond a restatement of the theme. Multiple Paragraph Outline TOPIC: Discuss the United States policies towards the Native Americans, and the Native American responses to those policies. Answer: Was the United States fair and justified in their policies towards the Native Americans in the Southeast? Thesis Statement:

6 Main Idea Details Introduction: Setting where, when, characters Problems that the Native Americans faced during Westward Expansion. Problem #1 Problem #2 Actions taken by government in attempt to solve the problems brought about by Westward Expansion (use two) Action #1 Action #2 Conclusion: Big Picture Was the United States fair and justified in their policies towards the Native Americans in the Southeast?

7 DBQ Document 1: Trail of Tears Painting

8 DBQ Document 2: Jackson s Letter to Cherokees To the Cherokee Tribe of Indians Written by Andrew Jackson in 1835 MY FRIENDS: I have long viewed your condition with great interest. For many years I have been acquainted with your people, and under all variety of circumstances, in peace and war... Listen to me, therefore, as your fathers have listened, while I communicate to you my sentiments on the critical state of your affairs. You are now placed in the midst of a white population... and you are now subject to the same laws which govern the other citizens of Georgia and Alabama... The game has disappeared among you, and you must depend upon agriculture and the mechanic arts for support... How, under these circumstances can you live in the country you now occupy? Your condition must become worse & worse, and you will ultimately disappear, as so many tribes have done before you. Of all this I warned your people,... I then advised them to sell out their possessions East of the Mississippi and to remove to the country west of that river... Your farms would have been open and cultivated, comfortable houses would have been erected, the means of subsistence abundant and you would have been governed by your own customs and laws, and removed from

9 the effects of a white population. Where you now are, you are encompassed by evils, moral and physical, & these are fearfully increasing... I have no motive,... to deceive you... I tell you that you cannot remain where you now are... You have but one remedy within your reach. And that is, to remove to the west and join your countrymen, who are already established there. And the sooner you do this, the sooner you can commence your career of improvement and prosperity... Why, then, should any honest man among you object to removal? The United States have assigned to you a fertile and extensive country, with a very fine climate adapted to your habits, and with all the other natural advantages which you ought to desire or expect... The choice now is before you... As certain as the sun shines to guide you in your path, so certain is it that you cannot drive back the laws of Georgia from among you... Look at the condition of the Creeks... their young men are committing depredations upon the property of our citizens, and are shedding their blood. This cannot and will not be allowed. Punishment will follow,... Your young men will commit the same acts, and the same consequences must ensue...

10 Look at your condition as it now is, and then consider what it will be if you follow the advice I give you.

11 DBQ Document 3: The Trail of Tears Poem The Trail of Tears (author unknown) We walked that trail, tears in our eyes, dragging our feet in weariness. How could we have believed their lies? Leaving nothing but blood, they slaughtered our mothers and daughters, and after all was gone, they claimed this land was their Father s. The Trail of Tears. We believed their evil smiles, and believed that they would save us, and now we know the truth, nothing can save the lost. They took our spirit, and fulfilled our every fear, killed our hope, and now we walk.