AP Western Thought - Scarsdale Public Schools



AT U.S. History

Harrison

Write Your Own

U.S. History

DBQ

Early American Life

You are each assigned a broad topic of the 18th century or early 19th Century social history in America. Your responsibility is to create a thoughtful and provocative DBQ with at least SIX documents.

In order to complete this assignment successfully, you need to do the following.

1. First, write a question that incorporates the topic. An excellent question that is both narrow in its focus while also broad enough to allow student to make a strong and meaningful thesis.

2. Along with each document, you will write a ONE paragraph explanation of how each document fits into the overall scheme of the DBQ.

• Make sure that there is a rationale for each of the documents.

• Documents should not be randomly selected.

• Each document should serve a specific purpose in the thrust of the DBQ

3. All documents must have a citation that shows where you retrieved the document.

4. Bibliography needed for all books and sites used.

5. At least one of the documents needs to be a picture or some other images

6. At least three of documents must be textual.

Topics:

1. Shakers of New England - James

2. Early American architecture - Georgian revivalism - Henry

3. Political Campaign of 1800 - Matt

4. Panic of 1819 - Marie

5. Five Corners of New York City - Gangs of New York - Sam

6. Music of Stephen Foster - Nick

7. Know-Nothings of the early 1800's - Nishna

8. The Growth of the U.S. Navy in the early 1800's - Emily

9. Lewis and Clark expedition - Harry

10. Washington Irving and the rise American Literature - Alyssa

11. Changing nature American women's fashion - Imperial Style - Saadia

12. Jefferson's impact on architecture - Monticello and UVA

13. Lowell System - Cherie

14. Political Campaign of 1824 - Gaby

15. James Fenimore Cooper and American Myths - Lizzy

16. Erie Canal - Jack K.

17. Noah Webster & American English - Karen

18. American Education- Horace Mann -Harry

19. Amistad Affair and John Quincy Adams

20. Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America

22. Blackhawk Wars and a young Abraham Lincoln

23. Nathanial Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter as a statement on the 1800's - Haley

24. Charles Finney and the rise of American Methodism - Andrew

25. Hudson River School Art - Seige

26. Cult of domesticity with American women - Aditi

27. Rise of Mormonism in upstate New York - Joseph Smith - Owen

28. American Colonization Society - Alan

Due: Thursday - October 30, 2015

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