·Introduction: Attention grabber something to hook your reader, Quote, Ask Question, Scenario, Historical context (background info) Thesis, Gout Action-impact Western expansion BODY PARAGRAPHS (2)

·Identify the government action -was it a law? Act? Purchase?

·Explain background of it- Who? What? Where? Why? When? How?

·Who initiated the government Action?

·The Succes or downfall of the gout action had westward expansion

· Positive? Negative? Why? Social? Political? Economic?

·The Texts ARE President Andrew Jackson, Second Annuel Message to Congress December 6, 1830

· President Chester A. Arthur, message to congress, December 6, 1881

· National Archives and Records Administration, Teaching with documents: Homestead Act Of 1862