📖 Part 1: Document Analysis

Instructions: Read each document carefully and answer the questions that follow. Use evidence from the documents to support your answers.

Document A: John O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny (1845)

"And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us."

Context: This quote appeared in an article supporting the annexation of Texas and Oregon Territory.

Document B: Luzena Stanley Wilson's Gold Rush Account (1849)

"The gold excitement spread like wildfire. Every man who could raise the money for the journey started for California... I cooked my suppers on a small sheet-iron stove, and fed from 75 to 200 miners every night. They paid me $1.00 for a meal that would not have brought 25 cents in the states."

🏛️ Part 2: Multiple Perspectives

Document C: Chief William Shaw (Miwok perspective)

"My people were scattered and driven into the mountains like wild beasts. Our villages were burned, our food supplies destroyed. The white men came with guns and took our land without asking."

Document D: California Law Excerpt (1850)

"No Indian or person of Indian blood shall be permitted to testify as a witness in any action or proceeding in which a white person is a party."

🤔 Part 3: Historical Analysis