Rida Tariq
Mrs. Landerholm
U.S History II
9/11 DBQ

Part I:

Document 1:

1) Greg Rodriguez was the son of Phillis and Orlando Rodriguez, who was a victim in the World Trade Center attacks.
2) His parents wrote this letter because the government was going in a way of violence, they had thought that violence is not the way to go. The families should be allowed to grieve and pray instead of focusing on attacking back.

Document 2:

1) President Bush demands were closing terrorist training camps, passing over leaders of Al-Qaeda network, and recurring all foreign nationals, that included American citizens who were obtain unjustly.
2) One reason was that none of the president’s demands were met and second was that to stop Taliban from other …show more content…
Document 4:

1) People started to actually believe that Iraq and Hussein were involved, but they were not. The American government was brain washing American citizens just to get there support.

Document 5:

The newspaper criticize the U.S response to 9/11 because there invading Iraq , when they had nothing to do with the attacks but also the U.S government was using violence as there last resort.

Document 6:

1) USA Patriot act authorized wiretaps over communication devices, seize suspicious records with knowledge, and surveillance someone who seem suspicious without their knowledge.
2) So by doing all those fixes they stopped 28 terrorist attacks since 9/11. The terrorist had foiled a lot more plots to destroy the US.

Part II:

1) Two actions taken by the United States government were that they took a violent turn and also got so paranoid that they had to bug the communication devices. In document 2 it shows how the U.S reacted with violence. The parents of Greg Rodriguez wrote a letter how it is important to not react with violence and just grieve. Another action the U.S took was destroy the Taliban camps and the disrupt communications. That was a good thing because it stopped future