Construct Your Own DBQ Exercise

Brittany McCormick

2006

The Episcopal Academy

Advanced Placement Examination

AMERICAN HISTORY

Section II

Part A

(Suggested Writing Time— 45 minutes)

Percent of Section II score— 45

Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period.

1. [Question]: What was the American attitude towards the influx of Immigrants entering the United States in the late Eighteenth Century? How did this impact the society of that time?

Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1860-1900 to construct your essay.

Document A

Document A

Document B

Document C

Document D

Document E

Document F

Document G

Document H