...APUSH DBQ Rubric | Name: ___________________________ | Essay topic: _______________________ | | | | 0 points | 1point | 2 points | 3 points | Thesis (0-1 pts) | * Thesis does not address all parts of the question * Thesis simply restates the question | * Thesis addresses all parts of the question * Thesis sets up the argument * Thesis addresses the targeted skill | | | Analysis of historical evidence & support of argument (0-3 pts) | * Only describes or paraphrases documents (inadequate analysis) * May use <4 documents | * Analyzes 4+ documents to support or prove argument/thesis | * Analyzes content of 4+ documents to support or prove argument/thesis AND * Does one of the following for 4+ documents: * Historical context * Audience * Purpose * Point of View | * Analyzes content of 6+ documents to support or prove thesis/argument AND * Does one of the following for 6+ documents: * Historical context * Audience * Purpose * Point of View | Outside Evidence (0-1 pt) | * Does not include any outside evidence * Has outside evidence but does not use it to advance the argument of the essay | * Uses substantial outside information to support or prove thesis/argument | | | Context (0-1 pt) | * Has only limited connections between the question and the time period | * Accurately and explicitly works the essay into the larger story of the United...
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...DBQ: “ Jacksonians Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. In light of the following documents and your knowledge of the 1820’s and 1830’s, to what extent do you agree with the Jacksonians’ view of themselves? According to the Jacksonians, they were guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity; this I agree with, for the most part. There are things in which evidence does not support the Jacksonians’ protection of the U.S Constitution and individual liberty. However, there are multiple examples of the Jacksonians guarding political democracy and equality of economic opportunity. Many documents from the time period of the 1820’s to the 1830’s provide obvious proof of the Jacksonians’ preservation of political democracy and equality of economic opportunity. The Jacksonians plainly guarded the political democracy through the people’s part as a whole in government, (doc E) especially in elections. Some refer to “democracy” as “mob rule” and with good reason as (doc E) Philip Hone’s Diary of Philip Hone described many riots during the election times. These riots seem negative as persecution of blacks also took place during the election and law riots, but nevertheless theses riots are evidence of political democracy. The Jacksonians’ claims to conserving political democracy are also proven...
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...Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech in 1775 along with Thomas Paine’s “Common sense” pamphlet in 1776 greatly influenced the ideas of American colonists when they began questioning their role in the empire of England. The declaration of resolves of the first continental congress in 1774 and the declaration of independence, devised in 1776 had the same effect on these American Colonists. About a year after the declaration, the articles of confederation were published as the first actual constitution, having it’s own effect on personal feelings of colonists. On one hand, the American colonists had a self government which could have influenced their mindset during the 17th through 18th century. On the other hand, a speech by Patrick Henry, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, two different declarations, and the articles of confederation all lead up to questioning in terms of authority in the empire of England and are what truly caused the mindset of American colonists to change. In March 1775, at the third Virginia convention, held in St. John's Church in Richmond, Patrick Henry gave his iconic “give me liberty or give me death” speech to discuss the latest relations with Great Britain. During Henry’s speech, he states "There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged...
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...1. United States foreign policy is the way in which it defines its interactions with foreign nations and sets standards for its corporation’s organizations, and individual citizens’ interactions. It aims to assure defense and security of America. It protects and projects national interests of America worldwide. The foreign policy is shaped national interest and covers a wide range of economic, political, ideological, military, and humanitarian concerns. However, U.S. foreign policy heavily relies on being in good relations with other countries. The U.S. has a history of maintaining a realist ideology when it comes to getting into relationships with other countries. With an imperialistic view as such, they have had a hard time maintaining good relations with countries in terms of foreign policy. 2. Woodrow Wilson believed that the United States had a right and responsibility to control its neighbors. He tried to preach Gospel of Democracy to legitimate its imperialism. Specifically Latin America was viewed as inferior to that of the U.S. They preached this in order to shape the terminology on dealing with conflict, capture the terms of the debate, and to shape the outcomes of the struggles that resulted. This led to multiple instances with military intervention in order to spread democracy to Latin America. Utilizing the notion of a “constitutional government” allowed for the Wilson administration to send more military assets to countries like Haiti, Nicaragua, Mexico, and stressed...
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...1. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette deserved their execution because of their failures to meet people’s demands. By taking from others through taxes on the third estate left people barely capable of supporting themselves. Anyone in the third estate had to result to crime our just starve due to the fact that the tax took a lot of the money for their wages. Finally, he only favored first and second classes and relieved him from taxes while he should have been treating everyone equally. 2. Robespierre was a shrewd lawyer and politician that took charge of the Public Committee of Safety. Robespierre led the Reign of Terror and was the creator of the new policy that “liberty cannot be secured unless criminals lose their heads.” Through this policy he established a strong resentment towards those who went against the revolution within France. 3. The Reign of Terror was an event during the French Revolution from the years 1793-1794 where about 17,000 people were executed and over 300,000 people were executed of which were suspected to not support the French Revolution. However, many of these people were targeted because they were victims from a mistaken identity or falsely accused by their neighbors. About 15% of these people arrested were from 1st and second estate and 85% were from the 3rd estate. Of the people caught if they were arrested they would have suffered the poor conditions in prisons and most likely die, or they were executed by a guillotine. 4. Napoleons successful...
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...A Civil War diplomatic crisis between the United States and Great Britain occurred in November 1861 when an overzealous Union captain stopped and searched the British vessel, Trent. The ship was stopped and boarded in international waters to search for two Confederate ambassadors. Using the Internet, libraries, and other research sources, research the Trent Affair. You should consider the circumstances, participants, and the outcome of this crisis to the North and the South. Construct a typewritten report to summarize your research findings. Use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation when constructing your report. Relations with the United States were often strained and even verged on war when Britain almost supported the Confederacy in the early part of the Civil War. The Union's main focus in foreign affairs was to prevent any British recognition of the Confederacy. The Trent affair did not erupt as a big crisis until late November 1861. The first link in the chain of events occurred in February 1861, when the Confederacy created a three person European delegation of William Lowndes Yancey, Pierre Rost, and Ambrose Dudley Mann. Their instructions from Confederate Secretary of State Robert Toombs were to explain to these governments the nature and purposes of the south, to open diplomatic relations, and to "negotiate treaties of friendship, commerce, and navigation." Toombs instructions included a long argument on states' rights and the right to secede. Because of the...
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...Mr. Henderson and Mrs. Henderson recently hosted a large pre-charity ball party at their home only to have police a few hours after it just begun at their house investigating four dead bodies discovered near a hors d’oeuvre table, sparking the initial suspicion that the individuals had been poisoned from said hors d’oeuvres. Stomach content samples were removed from each of the dead individuals during the autopsies and the samples were sent to the crime lab for further testing. The Ross Catering Co. was known to hire former convicts to work in their kitchens, with some people having a specific job and speciality in the hors d’oeuvres department. For each item placed on the food table there is a record of who prepared the food. Documents shows 5 individuals that signed off on the various hors d’oeuvres: Charles Lightfingers took care of the fruit platters (vitamin C), Jim Lockpicker took care of the Candy arrangements (sugars), Sam Cartaker dealt with the pasta platters (starches), Steven Gunit prepared the fish platters (protein), and Mike Axer had responsibility in the chip dishes section (fats). Coincidentally, each individual all had a reason to seek revenge on Mr. Henderson. In this experiment the stomach samples sent to the crime lab were tested for sugars, fats, proteins, vitamin C and starches. In order to know who the criminal could be, all four individuals must share at least one food type found in their stomach contents. During each testing positive and negative reactions...
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...pg 15-20: How do groups of people (sometimes called factions) contribute sometimes positively and sometimes negatively to the democratic process? In the words of Abraham Lincoln, the democratic government is one “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” The factions (parties or interest groups) contribute to the democratic process in that they use the theory of pluralism, and unite through shared interest to influence public policy. Because of the wide spread of power in our democratic government, these factions are capable of causing change only through the influence of a branch of the government, or through the people. Through the lens of the elitist theory, it could be viewed that certain factions have more pull because of their upper class status, and are more capable of swaying the government to gain what they want because of this disproportionate power balance. Hyperpluralism suggests that when factions of people compete, they inevitably weaken the government's control because the endless conflict of views makes policy far more difficult. What types of factions exist today in the world of politics? Factions are parties or interest groups from a political standpoint. There are two standard types of factions, the majority, who possess little or no property, and the minority, those with property. The majority faction usually desires to reduce the wealth of the minority, and the minority wants to secure its own gains. Those states that allow factions to sway their...
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...The disagreements between Jefferson and Hamilton led them to the creation of the political parties within the United States, the Jeffersonian Republicans and the Federalists. Jefferson favored strict interpretation of the Constitution while the Federalists supported looser interpretation. Jefferson and Madison wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions to attack the Federalist Party and argued for states’ right, arguing that they could nullify national laws. Although Jefferson and Madison both supported strict interpretation of the US Constitution, they started leaning towards looser interpretation, the main idea supported by the Federalists. Jefferson’s talk with Gideon Granger solidifies his point that the central government should have limited power over the state affairs (Doc 1). He believed that while the states took their own responsibilities, while national ideas still united them into a nation. Although not explicitly allowed by the Constitution, Jefferson went ahead with the Louisiana Purchase, further confirming his shifting beliefs towards a looser interpretation of the Constitution. In his talk with Samuel Miller, Jefferson expounds on his thoughts that religion should not be forced onto the people. He believed that all people are entitled to have the right of freedom of religion, which coincided with his beliefs of strict interpretation of the Constitution (Doc 2). Jefferson further states that while the President may have powers over civility, nobody has the power...
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...1. Amnesty was a pardon to southerners. 2. Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln’s assassination. 3. Black Codes prevented African Americans from reaching equality with southern whites. 4. Reconstruction Acts divided the Confederacy into 5 military districts. 5. Carpetbaggers were the name of northern Republicans. 6. The Compromise of 1877 made Republicans withdraw the federal troops from the south and the Democrats accepted President Hayes. 7. Sharecropping was a system that gave laborers a share of the crop, a cabin, seed, tools, and a mule. 8. Jim Crow laws were a series of laws that enforced segregation. 9. Madame C.J. Walker was the first black woman millionaire. 10. Booker T. Washington encourages African Americans to be educated and discouraged them to stop protesting. 1. Johnson’s plan said that there would be pardon for those with a loyalty oath whole Lincoln’s said that people had to take an oath about not putting up arms against the U.S. 2. Johnson’s plan called for wanting to bring the South back into the Union. The radicals were more interested in making the South suffer instead of help. 3. The fifteenth amendment allowed African Americans to vote so did the Reconstruction Act. 4. The Compromise of 1877 helped put Reconstruction to an end. 5. In the early 1860’s poor whites and African Americans worked for money on plantations and as years passed sharecropping came along making farming a low-income job. 6. The Jim Crow laws were all about segregation...
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...During the nineteenth century, the number of European industrial workers dramatically increased, which transformed the conditions under which they lived and worked. Once the factories were moved to the cities, they became over-populated with all the people moving there for jobs. While the Industrial Revolution brought advances in machinery, technology, and economics, the conditions workers faced led to arguments on how to improve their living conditions, get higher wages, and poor working conditions. In document 1, 2, and 10, the authors believe that the poor should be more patient and that they should not rely too much on the rich. "And it is evident that every man in the lower classes of society, who become acquainted with these truths, would be disposed to bear the distresses in which he might be involved with more patience." from Thomas Malthus' document (doc.1) which shows a bias view to the rich. Davis Ricardo shows favoritism to the rich on "Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 1817" (doc.2) when he says "Instead of making the poor rich, they are calculated to make the rich poor". All three men are letting the rich and nobles know that like all other contracts and wages, they should be left to the fair and competition of the market. The documents show bias because it seems as if they don't have any empathy for the poor and are blaming the poor for being in the position they are in. These arguments tried to help improve the life of Europeans...
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...Sectionalism represents the identification with a geological location of the United States with the characteristics of social, cultural, economic and political concerns of that location. During the Revolutionary era, which was from April 19th, 1775 to September 3rd, 1783, Americans already concluded that the basic thirteen colonies could be put into two sectional categories known as: Northern and Southern. These categories inherited regional differences, consequently living life different from another section. These differences got worse when the government of the United States kept expanding, domestic trouble, and furthermore meeting foreign complexities. The war of 1812 which is known as the second war for american independence ended up spurring the production of manufactured goods, challenging economic change. This also exposed weaknesses in transportation. Methods and modes of transportation were incompetent. Sectionalism relates to many events throughout the course of history that have happened and with the characteristics of social, cultural, economic and political concerns of that location. Sectionalism led to the events such as the emancipation proclamation, the division of the United States and the results it has, and to the civil war. An event that happened in history is known as the Emancipation Proclamation. This was issued on January 1st, 1863 by President Lincoln, which was near the 3rd year of the civil war. The Proclamation announced “that all persons held...
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... Distinct Societies “So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace...We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill” (Document A). For seventy five days initially beginning on March 29th, 1630, a fleet of four ships sailed from the Isle of Wright to Salem a city in the Massachusetts Bay. John Winthrop an English Puritan lawyer and writer later became the first governor laying the foundation for many more. His phenomenal world renowned work explored the ideology of a closely knit society. The Model of Christian Clarity became a model for the Puritan church and motivated many townsfolk that sought freedom from religious persecution to rise up as high as a mountain. Imagine being with your family only momentarily to then set out on a journey all alone heading overseas unaware of wherever you're going.Chesapeake immigrants were often single males that left everything to pursuit a fortune. The men ranged from sixteen to twenty-eight some names include, “Daniel Endick 16, Richard Williams 19, Humphrey Williams 22, Edward Towers 26, Gamaliel White 24, and Tho. Barchard 16” (Document C). There were approximately eight women which embarked too this was extremely fewer than men.The plantation economy fed the ever growing hungry farmers that sought to be on top of the social ladder. Virginia became a huge stock company later on prospering over the other colonies controlling ... Unlike what was occurring there England supported unity. Indentured servants...
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...For each question you may use your notes and book. Please defend your answer with a sentence or two about why your answer is correct. Let me know if you have any questions. Why did Washington reject the advice of both Jefferson and Hamilton and adopt a policy of neutrality? Washington wanted to stay neutral in everything. He knew they couldn’t afford another war after just finishing a war. Washington defended his policy and stood by it. This policy was to ensure there would not be any engagement between either side in the war. What were Washington’s views on foreign policy? Foreign policy is a nation's plan of action toward other nations. The way Washington had seen it was by staying neutral was the best thing to do. From how I see this is that this policy said that the United States and France where now allies. But the French wanted to the American ports so that they could attack Britain. Washington was not wanting that because the U.S was still recovering from the Revolutionary war. Why did Jefferson oppose Hamilton’s plan for creating a national bank? Jefferson argued that Congress did not have the constitutional power to establish or authorize the bank and he believed that it gave the federal government too much power and control. What were Washington’s views on political parties? He opposed political parties because he has a negative thinking about them. He did not like the political parties because he feared that they separate the people and ruin the country. Why did...
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...In the 20th century, a marvelous change happened in the United States foreign policy from isolationism to imperialism. Since Manifest Destiny was already completed, America, having an arrogant attitude, had the ambition for expanding overseas. The desire for new economic markets, the sensationalistic “yellow press,” Protestant missionary overload, philosophy, enmity of great-power, and naval competition are all factors in transforming America to the untouchable nation. In 1895 to 1896, the Venezuelan boundary crisis showcased an aggressive and new assertion of the Monroe Doctrine. Due to the United States intervening, it led to the American-British reconcilement after an astringent war panic. Since America’s government was obsessed with expansion, the year of 1893 was the turning point between the U.S. and Hawaii. It was in 1893 that a revolution was held to go against native rule by the white American planters. Even though the government craved for annexation, it was President Cleveland who blocked the exertion. The Spanish-American War, also known as the “splendid little” war, started in 1898 and ended four months later. This particular war presented American outrage about the Spanish oppression of Cuba. The “yellow press” in this time period made the U.S. support for the Cuban rebellion into a vigorous controversy. When Spain was ready to acknowledge on the major issues they were facing, America’s people pressed President McKinley into war after the USS Maine mysteriously...
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