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Directions: These questions are based on the accompanying documents.The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.
In your response you should do the following:
•State a relevant thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question.
•Support the thesis or a relevant argument with evidence from all,or all but one,of the documents.
•Incorporate analysis of all,or all but one,of the documents into your argument.
•Focus your analysis of each document on at least one of the following: intended audience,purpose,historical context,and/or point of view.
•Support your argument with analysis of historical examples outside the documents.
•Connect historical phenomena relevant to your argument to broader events or processes.
•Synthesize the elements above into a persuasive essay that extends your argument,connects it to a different historical context,or accounts for contradictory evidence on the topic.
-Analyze the changes and continuities of the United States government's policy toward Native Americans from 1810 to 1840.
Document 1
Saurce: Tecumseh to Guvernar Harnisan, August 12,1810
It is true I am a Shawee. My forefathers were warriors. Their is a warrior. Fram them I anly take my existence, from my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fartune; and oh! That I could make that of my red people, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind when I think of the Spirit that rules the universe, I wald not then come to Governor Harrison, to ask him to tear the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark; but I wauld say to hin, Sir, you have liberty to retun to your awn cauntry.
Document 2
Saurce: Felix Grundy, December 10,1811 , Annals of Conpe5s, Conpe5s, Session
It cancet be believed by my man wha wrill reflect thet the serage tibes, uninfluenced by other pawers, waid think of malan war an the United States. They understand tod well their awn wezkess, and aur strenth. They heve alreaty felt the weight of au arms; they lanow they hald the very sail an which they lyve as tenents at sufferance. Haw, then sir, are wre to account for their late candiuct? In ane wray anly; some parerful netion must heve intigued with them, and tured their perceful dispoition towrir us into hostilities.
Document 3
Source: Chief Shartarish 1821
There was a time when wr did not konow the whites - aur wants were fewer than they are now. They were always within our contral-we had then 5 een nothing which we cauld not get. Before dur intercourse with the whites, who have caused such a destruction in aur game, we cauld lie down to sleep, and when we awake we wald find the buffalo feeding around aur camp-but now we are kolling them far their skins, and feepling the walves with their flesh to make aur chiliren cry aver their bones.
Document 4
Source: Andrew Jacksan, 1829
The condition and ulterior destiny of the Indian tribes within the linrits of of aur states have became objects of much interest and importance. It has long been the policy af government to introduce amone them the arts of civilization in the hope of pradually reclairing them from a wandernin life. This policy has, however, been coupled writh another wholly incompatible writh its success. Profes5ing a desire to civilize and settle them, we have at the same time lost no opportunity to purchase their lands and thrust them farther into the wildermess. By this means they heve not anly been kept in a wandering state, but been led to look upan us a5 unjust and indifferent to their fate...
Document 5
Source: Appeal of the Cherakee Nation, July 17, 1830
We wish to remain an the land of aur fathers. We heve a perfect and original ripht to clain this, without interruption or molestation. The treaties writh us, and laws of the United States made in pursuance of treates, guaranty aur residence, and our privileges, and secure us against intruders. Our anly request is, that these treaties may be fulfilled and these laws executed.
Document 6
Saurce: Senatar Thedere Frelinghuysen, 1830 Register af Debates in Congess, Congress
I now proceed to the discussion of those principles which in my humble judment fully and clearly sustain the clams of the Indians to all their political and civi rights, as by them asserted And here I insist that, by inmemorial possession, as the aripinal tenants of the sail they hold atitle beyond and superiar to the British Crown and her colonies, and to all atverse pretensions of aur Canfederation and subsequent Union. God, in his Pravidence, planted these tribes on this western continent 50 far as we konow, before Great Britain herself had a political existence...
Document 7
Saurce: Removal of the American Indians
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