How to Write a DBQ

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How to Write a DBQ

• Steps to Success

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An New Approach

• You are graded for the inclusion of outside
  information and the use of the documents.
• You must use a certain number of documents.
• Count the documents and use half the number plus
  one, as a minimum.

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A To Do List

• Outline essay topic as if it were an FRQ.
• Make a list of appropriate outside information
  that you know relates to the topic.
• Read Documents carefully and put them into
  organization/outline.

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Your Topic

• In what ways did the French and Indian War
  (1754-1763) alter the political, economic, and
  ideological relations between Britain and its
  American colonies?
• Use the documents and your knowledge of the
  period 1740-1766 in constructing your response.

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Outline Suggestion

• I. Introduction
• II. Body Paragraph One
• Political change to the imperial relationship
• III Body Paragraph Two
• Economic change to the imperial relationship
• IV. Body Paragraph Three
• Ideological change to the imperial relationship
• V. Conclusion

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Your To Do List

• Outline DBQ This is already completed
• Write an effective introduction with a well
  crafted thesis
• For each body paragraph, list relevant outside
  information
• For each body paragraph, list relevant documents

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Sample Paragraph on Politics

• Relevant Outside Information
• Treaty of Paris 1763
• Actual v. Virtual Rep.
• Acts/Taxes of Parliament
• Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress

• Relevant Documents
• Doc. A France is removed from N. Amer.
• Doc G working to influence Parliament
• Doc H protest to redefinition of imperial
  relationship
• Doc F Rights of Englishmen

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Commonly Seen Outside Info

• Nav. Acts
• Mercantilism
• Triangular Trade
• salutary neglect
• French fur trade
• Seven Years War
• Battle of Quebec
• Myth of invincibility - GB

• Treaty of Paris (1763)
• Pontiacs Rebellion
• Procl. 1763
• Acts of Parliament
• Virtual v. Actual Rep.
• internal v. external taxes
• 1st Great Awakening
• Republicanism
• Radical Whig Ideology

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Document Analysis

• I. Introduction
• II. Political change
• Doc. A, F, G, H
• III Economic change
• Doc. A, B, F, H
• IV. Ideological change
• Doc. A, C, D, Elt H
• V. Conclusion