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Final Exam Paper Wild Wild West

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DBQ Was widespread violence prevalent in the West?

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Part I Background Essay Old West Violence

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Assignment Skim all of the articles Can you organize the documents to get a sense of what they are about? Organize the documents into categories.

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Part II How did you organize the articles? Did you see a pattern? Note: You are not to do additional research for your essay. Create a chart for the documents.

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Final Exam DBQ Article Analysis Name of Article, Source, Reliability Y/N Main IdeaFor/Against Prevalent Widespread Violence Example, Notation

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Example Document 1, Map of the Great Plains, 1866-1885 Source ? Reliability? Main Idea-At first people thought of the Great Plains as the Great American Desert and was useless. What things made this land valuable?

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Example, Continued For/Against Prevalent Widespread Violence Did the Gold Rush, expansion of the rail road, cattle industry cause violence? If so, was in everywhere or only in certain places? Give an example as proof with notation According to Document 1, a map that was created with various historical sources,

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Main Idea Hints 2-Cattle were rounded up in Texas, driven north to railway towns (Abilene), cattle watered, sold and shipped to Chicago. Many cowboys were ex-Confederate soldiers. 3-Compare/contrast rates in mining, farming, cattle towns and to modern cities. How large were these towns? How does this effect the murder rate? 4-How old was the town? Number of murders? Typical or an extreme example? Compare to documents 2,3. 5-Green River City is not the West as we have defined it. Is was a temporary rail road town. Why was this document included? How could Document 4 have possibly influenced document 5? 6-Locate sand Creek and Beecher Island on the Document 1 map. (Note: The Cheyenne had been victims of Colonel Chivingtons massacre at Sand Creek in 1864.) If this battle had taken place in the East, would it have gained so much attention? Why/why not? 7-Only US and Confederate military deaths are included (not Native Americans or civilians). What percentage of people were killed in each War? Was is it important to make this calculation? 8-Chart was assembled by analyzing thousands of primary sources, many unofficial battles were included in the figures. Why were there so many military deaths in 1876? Should you believe the accuracy of this chart? Why/why not? 9-Overland Trails-A group of trails, would have included Oregon trail. (Note-In this part of the country, there were few Native Americans, because they feared catching cholera from the white man.) Is there bias in this article? Figure out the percentage of people out of 150 who encountered violence. Is this number high or low? Is out definition of violence to narrow? 10-Non-combatants are not included in these numbers. The author comments that Indian combat deaths were fewer than soldier combat deaths. Based on information that you gathered from other documents, is this statement accurate? (Hint-More Indians died from disease that bullets. In 1848, 1200 Pawnee died to cholera).

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Complete Documents 2,3

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Part III Complete/discuss documents 2,3 Analyze documents 4-10

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Part IV Read, What Makes a Good Thesis Statement? Discuss articles 4-10

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Chart Was wide spread violence prevalent in the Old West? Choose at least half of the articles the support your thesis, and circle them on your chart.

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Thesis-Start here if you are stuck. Widespread violence was not prevalent in the West. Violence in the West was very widespread. Violence in the West was limited to. Violence in the West was more prevalent in ___________________ parts of the West.

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Thesis Paragraph-finish after body paragraphs are done

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Graphic Organizer Create a thesis At least 3 evidence paragraphs/squares, can add extra paragraphs if needed on back. Conclusion

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Body Paragraphs Main Idea Evidence-specific examples Conclusion-This should summarize the paragraph and transition the reader into the next paragraph.

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Thesis Statement Thesis/statement of position-What are you trying to convince your reader of? Later you can add a hook to the thesis to get the readers attention. Evidence According to [Document 1, author of document, name of document] To make your argument more convincing, your audience needs to know where your information is from.

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Conclusion Restatement of thesis Summarize your evidence. This is your last chance to convince the reader of your position.

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Due Dates Typed Thesis, Non-typed Organizer-Monday, May 13 Typed Draft-Monday, May 20 (optional) Typed Final Paper-Friday, May 24 OR EARLIER!

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Part V-Draft and APA Use past tense for history papers. Do not use contractions in formal writing. Use proper punctuation and capitalization. Use specific examples/statistics and tell the reader where the information if from. Use transitions to make your writing flow between sub-topics Length-At least 5 paragraphs long and 5 documents must be used. (thesis paragraph, body paragraph, conclusion paragraph)

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Examples of Transitions Addition Again Also Another Besides As well as Likewise Moreover Similarly Furthermore In addition Contradiction Although And yet Even though On the contrary Otherwise On the other hand However In comparison Instead Nevertheless Yet While

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Common Mistakes Widespread-Was violence occurring everywhere in the West or only in certain places? Prevalent-Was violence common in the West? In other words, were violent deaths common in all parts of the West? Were they more or less common in certain areas?

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Common Mistakes How are we defining: Violence? The West? (years and geographic area)

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Common Mistakes The West-When talking about the region of the West, capitalize West. The West was violent. west-When talking about a direction, do not capitalize west. Travel west on Interstate 80 for 300 miles.

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Would a textbook contain these sentences? I am going to explain to you how the West was not very violent by talking about farms. I think that the West was violent.

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Common Mistakes Use third person, not first person. Correct People living on farms did not experience much violence in the West. Incorrect I am going to explain to you how the West was not very violent by talking about farms.

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Common Mistakes Use fact, not opinion. I think that the West was violent. _____________is just one example of violent events that often occurred in the West.

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Citations Use internal citations. According to Document 4: Commentary about Benton, Wyoming After citing the document with the entire name, you can then simply refer to it as Document 4 Document 4 also states, more than 100 graves disgraced the plot... In Green River it was illegal to participate in gambling (Document 5). When quoting information, using statistics or extensive paraphrasing, cite your source.

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APA Formatting Guidelines Times New Roman, 12 point, double space, 1 margins

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Header Instructions Insert Tab Header (first one) Insert Tab Page Number Home Tab, change to right justification Type Header: WWW Final DBQ (There should be a space between the title and page number)

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Cover Page See example handout

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Rubric and Length 5 paragraphs or more Thesis/Introduction Body Conclusion/Summary