Preparation for the Document-Based Questions
Preparation for the Document-Based Questions
Suggestions and Tips on Writing Historical Essays and Answering the DBQ
Rubrics for the AP Free Response Questions
Assignment
Assignment
Assignment
P. E. R. S. I. A.
UNIT 1: CONTACT - EUROPEANS AND AMERINDIANS
New World Beginnings Assignment
Primary Source 1: Christopher Columbus
UNIT 3: FORGING A NEW NATION
Sample Long Essay Student Work
Long Essay Question Practice 1
Primary Source 9: Boston Massacre
Primary Source 10: Tar & Feather
Primary Source 11: Patrick Henry
Primary Source 12: Common Sense
Longfellow: Paul Revere's Ride
Primary Source 13: Abigail Adams
Primary Source 14: Declaration
Music of the Neoclassical Period:
Liberty Tree - Thomas Paine (1765)
Castle Island Song - British (1770)
A Toast - Francis Hopkinson (1778)
Chester - William Billings (1778)
The World Turned Upside Down (1781)
Document-Based Question Practice 1
Primary Source 17: Federalist #10
Primary Source 19: Ben Franklin
UNIT 4: ANTEBELLUM AMERICA
Jefferson and Liberty - Pete Seeger
Primary Source 20: Thomas Jefferson
Document-Based Question Practice 3
Long Essay Question Practice 3
Primary Source 27: Alexis de Tocqueville
*Extra Credit: The Scarlet Letter
(Romanticism)
Transcendentalism Historical Perspective
*EC: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Leader Analysis: Andrew Jackson
Primary Source 28: Frederick Douglass
UNIT 5: CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
Long Essay Question Practice 4
Primary Source 29: John O'Sullivan
Primary Source 30: William Swain
Change Analysis: 1815 - 1848
The Persuader: Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Law that Ripped America in Two
Long Essay Question Practice 5
Primary Source 31: John Brown's Body
Primary Source 33: Lincoln 1st Inaugural
Primary Source 34: Anaconda Plan
Ashokan Farewell / Sullivan Ballou
(From Ken Burns' Civil War: Letter)
Primary Source 35: Battle Hymn
Primary Source 37: Emancipation
Primary Source 38: Gettysburg Address
Primary Source 39: Lincoln 2nd Inaugural
Conflict Analysis: The Civil War
Primary Source 40: Walt Whitman (Realist)
I've Got a Secret: Samuel J. Seymour
Primary Source 41: Samuel J. Seymour
Leader Analysis: Abraham Lincoln
UNIT 6: THE GILDED AGE
Primary Source 42: Wainwright Building
Primary Source 43: Flat Iron Building
Primary Source 44: Brooklyn Bridge
Primary Source 45: Thomas Nast
Primary Source 46: Thomas Nast
Primary Source 49: Emma Lazarus
Primary Source 52: Lincoln Steffens
Primary Source 53: Thos. S. Allen
*Extra Credit: The Jungle (Excerpt)
Primary Source 54: William J. Bryan
Document-Based Question Practice 6
The Frontier - Ray Allen Billington
Historical Analysis: The Gilded Age
UNIT 7: PROGRESSIVISM AND INTERNATIONALISM
Document-Based Question Practice 7
Nine Characteristics - Progressivism
Long Essay Question Practice 6
T.R. -"The Right of the People to Rule"
Primary Source 59: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 60: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 61: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 62: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 63: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 64: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 65: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 66: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 67: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 68: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 69: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 70: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 71: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 72: WWI Propaganda
Primary Source 73: WWI Propaganda
Conflict Analysis: World War I
Long Essay Question Practice 7
Go Down Moses - Louis Armstrong
Let My People Go - Paul Robeson
*EC: The Sun Also Rises (Modernism)
Historical Analysis: The 1920s
Document-Based Question Practice 8
Primary Source 76: Dorothea Lange
Primary Source 77: Hoovervilles
Primary Source 78: FDR 1st Inaugural
Primary Source 79: "Black Sunday"
Long Essay Question Practice 8
Kate Smith - God Bless America
Primary Source 82: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 83: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 84: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 85: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 86: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 87: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 88: Rosie the Riveter
Primary Source 89: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 90: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 91: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 92: WWII Propaganda
Primary Source 93: Joe Rosenthal
Primary Source 94: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Conflict Analysis: World War II
UNIT 8: THE COLD WAR ERA
Primary Source 95: Truman Photo
Long Essay Question Practice 9
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Historical Analysis: The 1950s
Kennedy vs. Nixon: First Debate
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
Primary Source 96: JFK Inauguration
I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King
Primary Source 97: Martin Luther King
Long Essay Question Practice 10
Primary Source 98: Ronald Reagan
Primary Source 99: Cesar Chavez
Change Analysis: The 1960s
UNIT 9: 1980 TO THE PRESENT
Ronald Reagan First Inauguration
Primary Source 100: Reagan Inaugural
Leader Analysis: Ronald Reagan