HOW TO WRITE A DBQ

1. HOW TO WRITE A DBQ APUSH SSICP 2012-2013

2. First Steps in writing a DBQ • Form an opinion • Evaluate through a compare and contrast of Booker T and Du Bois • Which of two individuals do you think had a more appropriate method in fighting for equality. • Highlight or underline key words in the question.

3. My prior knowledge • 1877 Reconstruction is over • The era of industrialization and big business. • Immigration and discrimination • The Progressive Era • 1893 depression and labor unrest

4. Booker T vs. WEB Du Bois • BT-More peaceful, a former slave, willing to negotiate with “whites’ and the U.S. government., blacks need to prove themselves through hard work (equality), Tuskegee Institute established, southerner( grew up in the south with whites, south more mixing of the races in the North people were more segregated.

5. Booker T vs. WEB Du Bois • WEB-Use violence if needed, Founded the NAACP empowerment through community job training, education black people do for black people don’t depend on the whites (government), Pan Africanisim and migration back to Africa(blacks and whites can’t live together) WEB is mixed race an outsider

6. How to use my documents • 60% of your documents must be used • If you use a quote no more then 4 words total in the entire • 60% of your essay AKA your answer should be your own prior knowledge • Analyze the actual document

7. How to write a dbq • A mini AP Part for each document • Link outside evidence to the question to prove your answer • You need to use documents that help your answer • Label your documents according to SPRITE

8. How to write a DBQ • Don’t use documents that you don’t understand or pictures. • Create an outline and STICK WITH IT!!!! Plug in your docs • You must use specifics people, places, events and years • For each paragraph NEVER EVER start with a DOCUMENT!!!!!!! THINK FOOD it’s a sandwich