10th Grade Expository Writing Ms.

Holsen Genocide Research Paper

Genocide Research Paper Outline

Directions: Complete the outline using complete sentences. Make sure you include a title for
your paper at the beginning of the outline.

Creative Title: The Trail of Death

I. Introduction

A. In the history books in America there are thousands of children who know about
the event called the Trail of Tears. This event should renamed the Trail of Death.

B. Sentence describing the genocide/main cause: The trail of tears occurred in

_____ during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson. He moved the cherokee indiants out
of their land and took their resources. To move them out of the land and take the
resources. Also, the president was racist and thought they were too under deloped to
have that much land.

C. 1-2 more sentences describing the genocide

Tthey were forced to mirget to a new land and leave their old home behind and walk a
long way.
D: Thesis statement:
How bad was the genocide and all the stages of the genocide. The Trail of Tears
could be considered a genocide based on the stages of dehumanization, persecution,
and extermination for the United State government to remove the Native Americans
fromor land.
II. Body Paragraph 1

A. Topic sentence – focusing on stage of genocide: The dehumanization of the

Cherokee so it would be easier to strip their rights away from them.

B. Description of chosen stage connected to your topic: The dehumanization and the
removal of the Cherokees to get stuff from them, and to get rid of them.

C. Evidence (embedded quote from one of your articles): Under that agreement,
Georgia would receive Cherokee lands, and the Cherokee would be removed. Jackson was
not going to stop Georgia from trying to take the Cherokee land (Burgan, Michael)

D. In 1-2 sentences explain how the new evidence provided connects to this stage of genocide. If
you dehumanize people, you to extremize and get rid of you will not feal guilty because in your
eyes you are the good guy in the story. So, they removed them form their land because they were
savages in the white people eyes, so they thought they the government thought that it was were
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doing America a favor.

E. Concluding sentence This how the white people were able to strip the Cherokees human rights
and humiliated them by making them powerless against white people and muting their voice.
This is the first stage of the genocide and the suffering later to come.

III. Body Paragraph 2

A. Topic sentence – focusing on stage of genocide: Persecution This is not a topic

sentence. How could you draft a sentence focusing on persecution?

B. Description of chosen stage connected to your topic:

Because this is how they were identified and removed from their homes
C. Evidence (embedded quote from one of your articles): the forced march west (the
“Trail of Tears”) happened in 1838. This act of ethnic cleansing went beyond manifest
destiny; it was treachery.

D. In 1-2 sentences explain how the new evidence provided connects to this stage
of genocide They used the Cherokees lack of knowledge to trick them into
signing a treaty to kick them out and steal the resources they wanted for so long.
So, some of them resisted so they started murdering them, their family, or the
whole tribe.

E. Concluding sentence This is the main thing moving themThe treaty started the
difficult journey westward to Oklahoma. over to the to the desolate land now
known as Oklahoma today.

IV. Body Paragraph 3

A. Topic sentence – focusing on stage of genocide: Extermination – not a topic

sentence

B. Description of chosen stage connected to your topic: Killing them for little to no
reason

C. Evidence (embedded quote from one of your articles):

“If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till
that tribe is exterminated or driven beyond the Mississippi." (Source citation).
D. In 1-2 sentences explain how the new evidence provided connects to this stage of
genocide When the Cherokees got too their new home which was a waste land the
current the president at that time wanted to kill them for no reason. But we people
found out that there were more resources such as... in that wasteland. These resources
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were more than they thought, so they started going over there and started killing the
Cherokees.

E. Concluding sentence the U.S government made the Cherokee go there to

Oklahoma and live there because there was nothing for them to rebel with. But when
they the government found out there were more resources or there thanon0 the land,
they took tried to take that land by force from the Cherokeeem.

V. Concluding paragraph

A. Restate your thesis

How bad was the Genocide and how bad were the stages
B. Write 1-2 sentences tying all three stages of genocide together Restate your thesis
statement
The first stage was dehumanization so the U.S government could get rid of them
without any repocution. The Second is Persecution, this is how they started to identify
and remove the Cherokee form homes. The third and last stage is Extermination, this is
the closing part of the genocide where they started killing tribe for little to no reason
and then when more gold and resources have been found there, they started killing the
Cherokee for the resources
C. Write 1-2 sentences about what other information you could use to improve your
essay

D. “Mic Drop” closing sentence about your genocide: This genocide was all about
greed and selfness of the U.S government.