CHICAGO METRO HISTORY FAIR

2018 SUMMARY STATEMENT FORM

Attach an annotated bibliography (AB) that is divided between primary and secondary sources.
Submit two copies of the SS and the AB at the competition. ​Please type.

Student name(s) _Kevin J Garzon

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Title_Black Hawk War of 1832: relationship of Natives and Americans Destroyed

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Check if applicable (and respond to question 3)

​ his project uses the 2018 National History Day theme, “Conflict & Compromise in [Chicago/Illinois] History.”
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Project Category:
□ Exhibit □ ​Website □ Paper □ Documentary □ Performance

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1. THESIS STATEMENT
Present the project’s argument or interpretation in two sentences. If you are using the NHD theme, you might want to
The Native Americans live in reservations, but their story isn’t told the
make it evident in your thesis statement.​
way it should’ve been. They fought hard and long to try and keep their land, but it didn’t go their way. Black
Hawk didn’t give in to the Americans, and the Americans were persistent to steal the land. The story of what
broke the relationship between Native Americans and the Americans.

2. SUMMARY OF PROJECT
Briefly explain your project and its conclusion. Include: How and why did change happen and what was the impact?
Why is it historically significant? What historical meaning or importance can we learn from your findings? ​Native
Americans have been here as far as history can tell their story. But, greed and wealth of Americans around the
early 1800’s is what drove them to leave their homeland and to be in what today we call “reservation”, when it
isn’t right, and all of the United States should be theirs. We get a more brutal war of what Natives, that stood up
against the Americans, tried to do to stay in their homes. Led by Black Hawk, small little battles had been
fought, from April to August of the year 1832. But, in the Bad Axe Massacre, the rebellious Natives lost and
were moved somewhere far from their land. Has historical significance because gives better understand of why
Native Americans have a low population and live in reservations. People are able to learn the broken
relationship between Native Americans and Americans has been around for roughly 200 years.

3. Required for projects using the National History Day theme only.
Explain how this project integrates the NHD theme “Conflict & Compromise in [Chicago/Illinois] History” into its argument.
The war took place in Illinois itself and answers the question of why there aren’t Native Americans or
reservations in Chicago alone. The conflict is how Natives didn’t want to leave their homelands and they tried
peace at first, but the Americans didn’t want to oblige. Instead a war was fought for the Natives to move, and
the Americans won by the remaining Natives giving up their land and moving somewhere else. A treaty made
in Chicago Illinois.

​4. PROCESS

A. What historical question did you start off with—and how did it change once you began doing your research?
​In
the beginning, my question was “What was the cause of the Black Hawk War? What cause led to
the beginning of it?”. But after learning about the war itself and the harshness that the Natives endured and how
the Americans were brutal about taking the land, it changed into “Had the U.S. citizens made right choice of
destroying their relationship with Native Americans for land?”
B. What kinds of sources did you use as evidence to develop your argument (for example, letters, photographs,
government documents, interviews, etc.)?
​Ihad used novels, maps, and even written treaties that had been written right after the Black Hawk
War. Novels give good stand points and the historic detail of the war itself. Maps on where it took place, and
treaty that shows American citizen finally winning the war.
C. Select one piece of evidence that you used and explain how it influenced your argument.
​The
Treaty of Chicago gives my argument of how Native Americans had to give in and where forced
to move from their home. It also shows the conflict and compromise that took place in Chicago, Illinois
which shows the disassembled relationship that the Indians had with the Americans.
D. List libraries (other than school), museums, and other institutions that you visited to do your research.
​None, just online articles made from historians.