DBQs
US Presidents
Colonies
Things you might not know yet about U.S. History
Things you may know about U.S. History
100

Number of DBQ rubric points

7

100
First US President

George Washington

100

Oldest of the 13 Colonies

Jamestown (Virginia)

100

He wrote the Star Spangled Banner (as part of a poem)

Francis Scott Key

100

16th U.S. President

Abraham Lincoln
200

The "Unicorn" Point

Complexity

200

Second U.S. President

John Adams

200

The dissenter's colony

Rhode Island

200

Lincoln's famous debating partner in the the 1858 campaign for governor of Illinois

Stephen A. Douglas

200

Puerto Rico is/is not a state in the union

Puerto Rico is not a state in the union

300

How many documents do you need to source to get the souring point

2
300

Third U.S. President

Thomas Jefferson

300

Colony founded by Lord Baltimore that allowed Catholic's to worship within it

Maryland

300

Name of Thomas Jefferson's estate in Charlottesville, VA

Monticello
300

Leader of the Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt

400

Minimum length of your DBQ response accordibng to the rubric

No minimum number of words or pages

400

President who took the land for and constructed the Panama Canal

Theodore Roosevelt

400

This colony was founded as a debtor's colony in 1732

Georgia

400

Year that CA became the 31st state in the Union 

1850

400
Subject of the Second Amendment

Right to bear arms

500

How many documents do you need to use to suport your argument

4

500
The Mexican-American War is also called [insert name of Presidnet]'s War

James Knox Polk

500

This is not a colony, but is the farthest north of the New England states, and was initially claimed to belong to the Colony of Massachusetts Bay

Maine
500

The city that served as the first capital of the United States

New York City

500

What is taking the "5th"

Invoking 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination