our DBQ
Click on the link below for your DBQ. Since this was from an earlier year, it does not have the updated grading standards that went into effect for the 2018 APUSH exam. So ignore the standards listed before the question and instead use the updated ones listed below. You may want to open the essay question in another window so you can refer back to these standards as you write.

Directions: This question is based on the accompanying documents. The documents have been edited for the purposes of this exercise.

Your response should do the following.

Thesis: Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning.
Contextualization: Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt.
Evidence from the Documents: Support an argument in response to the prompt using at least six documents.
Evidence beyond the Documents: Use at least one additional piece of specific historical evidence relevant to an argument about the prompt.
Document Analysis: For at least three documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument.
Historical Reasoning: Demonstrate a complex understanding of the historical development that is the focus of the prompt, using evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the question.
Your question and documents are on pages 5–11 of this document. Open it in another window so you can access the documents and the writing box below. Do all your brainstorming on a blank sheet of paper, and type only your essay in the box.

LINK TO MY DOCUMENT https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/apc/ap18-frq-us-history.pdf