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