AP US History Reconstruction DBQ Following the culmination of the Civil War‚ issues regarding the restoration of seceded states to the Union‚ the emancipation of slaves‚ and the overall re-development of political institutions in the nation prevailed. The idea of Reconstruction was proposed to political officials in late 1865‚ when the effects of the tumultuous Civil War were at its most devastating. The various enactments of the period were deemed void and not actively enforced. Democratic and
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DBQ QUESTIONS Writing the DBQ Civil War Assess the following quote: “Ultimately‚ the Civil War reduced sectional antagonism and made the United States truly ‘one nation.’” ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Constitution Using information from the evidence below as well as your knowledge of the period‚ discuss the development of the United States Constitution as a document
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Annotated DBQ Rubric: Buddhism in China Sample DBQ Question: Based on the following documents‚ analyze the responses to the spread of Buddhism in China. What additional kind of document(s) would you need to evaluate the extent of Buddhism’s appeal in China? Point # Generic Description Explanation/ Commentary Examples and Commentary 1 Has acceptable thesis. Thesis addresses the specific focus of the question. The thesis should reflect a sophisticated understanding of the complexities
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0 AP US History Document Based Question Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying documents. You will have 60 minutes to read and analyze the documents and answer the question. This question tests your ability to work with historical documents. To what extent was the decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830’s was more a reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since
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DBQ Essay Jacksonian Democracy was a movement for more democracy in the American government in the 1830s. This particular movement was led by President Andrew Jackson. Jackson had wanted more rights for the common man‚ and wanted to eliminate all aristocracy in the American nation. This democracy would be aided by the people of the recently established settlements in the South and West. The Jacksonian Democrats had referred to themselves as to be guardians of the Constitution‚ by giving
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― Abraham Lincoln‚ The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Document A Document B Source: 1885 Illinois‚ Map of debates Source: 1885‚ Cartoon Document C Source: August 27‚ 1858‚ in Freeport‚ Illinois He was a significant force behind the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act; both which included the idea of "popular sovereignty." Douglas was a strong believer in this doctrine‚ which said that the people of the territories should choose whether they wanted slavery or not. On the other
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The Theme of compromise in "All My Sons" Compromise is used when somebody is forced to settle on one thing in exchange for another. In the play All My Sons written by Arthur Miller‚ there seems to be the repeating theme of "compromise" among the characters. The theme of compromise is used in the play to help us understand its message. Each of the characters in All My Sons was faced with a compromise throughout the play. For instance‚ Jo sent out broken cylinder heads‚ knowingly‚ so the
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From 1800 to 1850 territorial expansion tore the United States apart. Territorial expansion itself was not a debated issue. Spurred by the concept of Manifest Destiny‚ almost everyone believed that America should extend from sea to shining sea and maybe even farther. But it was the issue of the expansion of slavery into the new territories that pitted the North against the South and split our nation apart. The first real crisis over territorial expansion took place in 1819-1821 over the admission
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The Scarlet Letter By Sarah Johnston Nathaniel Hawthorne used his writing skills to appropriately show the strict intolerant ways of the disciplined Puritan America of 1850‚ with his novel The Scarlet Letter. This novel has become a classic‚ because of the accurate portrayal of the conservative Puritan ways. His novel is one of few to tell of the true Puritan lifestyle. Hawthorne explains the ways in which society cast out any individual for standing apart from the common crowd. The ways in which
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there needed to be three equal branches of government‚ the executive‚ legislative‚ and the judicial branch. A compromise that was made was the Great Compromise. The Great Compromise was an agreement that small and large states made. This compromise stated the representation and legislative structure each state should have under the U.S. Constitution. The outcome of the Great Compromise was that each state would have two representatives in the upper house. The judicial
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