DBQ REVIEW
• Objectives:
• Demonstrate your understanding of how to write a DBQ
• Review a time period that may appear as the DBQ for this year
• Demonstrate your understanding of how the DBQ is graded
• Agenda
• Pick a DBQ from the Next Slide
• Find the documents and outside information on the AP central website
(but do not read the essays)and take 20 minutes and plan your essay
(make a thorough outline and include the outside information that is
presented on AP central)
• Use this information and take 45mins to write your DBQ
• Once finished, exchange your essay with someone who wrote on a
different question
• Read through the scoring commentary and the essay 9 example and
grade their essay (if you do not finish it is homework)
DBQ CHOICES
• 2006 Discuss the changing ideals of American womanhood
between the American Revolution (1770’s) and the outbreak of
the Civil War. What factors fostered the emergence of a
“republican motherhood” and the “cult of domesticity”? Assess
the extent to which these ideals influenced the lives of women
during this period. In your answer be sure to consider issues of race
and class.
• 2006b Analyze developments from 1941–1949 that increased
suspicion and tension between the United States and the Soviet
Union.
• 2005bIn the early nineteenth century, Americans sought to resolve
their political disputes through compromise, yet by 1860 this no
longer seemed possible. Analyze the reasons for this change. Use
the documents and your knowledge of the years 1820–1860 in
constructing your response.
• 2005 To what extent did the American Revolution fundamentally
change American society? In your answer be sure to address the
political, social and economic effects of the Revolution in the
period from 1775 to 1800.