Source G blames the early settlers for the problems of lawlessness in early western towns. Use all the sources and your own knowledge to explain whether you think this is a fair comment.
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Source G blames the early settlers for the problems of lawlessness in early western towns. Use all the sources and your own knowledge to explain whether you think this is a fair comment.
I think the above comment is unfair, my reasons for thinking this is because I don’t think all of the problems can be blamed on the early settlers, there were other people who lived in the west that caused many problems that contributed to the lawlessness that was still around when source G was wrote.
Source G is a speech spoken by William J McConnell a later governor of the western state of Idaho, in the speech he criticises the first settlers of the mining towns and says how they should have ‘directed their energies not only to making money but also to public affairs’ looking at this statement it indicates to me that the early settlers were very selfish and only cared about money, but when I asked myself if the source was reliable I answered no, the reason for this is because McConnell could be criticising the early settlers so that he has someone to blame for the mess he has made out of managing the state of Idaho, and this is why think that the above comment is unfair, the sources are not very reliable and he doesn’t have any evidence to back up what he is saying in the speech.
