Document-Based Questions
These assignments ask you to analyze primary sources and apply the analytical framework to evaluate whether specific historical events meet the criteria for ethnic cleansing. Each assignment includes instructions, a primary source reader, and a fillable worksheet.
Jacksonian Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears
HIST 101 • Document-Based Question
Evaluate whether Jacksonian Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears meets the criteria for ethnic cleansing, using a reader of twelve numbered documents: laws, letters, and eyewitness accounts from 1830–1839, a Cherokee survivor’s memory recorded in 1932, and estimates of the death toll.
Submit one PDF to Canvas. See Canvas for the due date and grading.