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Writing a DBQ
100
This document claimed that all men were entitled to "unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
What was the Declaration of Independence?
100
James Watt is given credit for improving the design of this machine so that it could be used in factories.
What is the steam engine?
100
These natural features had been used as transportation networks for centuries prior to their use in powering the machines in the earliest factories.
What are rivers?
100
This transformational idea of commonality first developed in revolutionary France and was based on a celebration of shared language, religion, social customs, and territory.
What is nationalism?
100
This economist attacked mercantilism as a system that restrained both growth and profit.
Who was Adam Smith?
100
This category of people was finally eliminated in Western Europe the late 1700s as legal reforms dismantled the last vestiges of feudalism.
What are serfs?
100
An effective introduction paragraph for a DBQ should include an appropriate thesis as well as an explanation of this.
What is contextualization?
or
What is context?
200
Thomas Hobbes maintained that government was the result of this mutual agreement between the people and the ruler.
What is the social contract?
200
George Stephenson is given credit for being the first person to develop this means of land transportation that relied on steam power.
What is a train?
or
What is a railroad?
or
What is a locomotive?
200
In addition to coal, this resource is considered essential to the success of the first industrial revolution.
What is iron?
200
This nation state unified as a result of nationalism and included Tuscany, Lombardy, Naples, Rome, Venetia and many other smaller states.
What is Italy?
200
The loss of this shared land for raising crops made it difficult for poor farmers to support their familes.
What is the common land?
200
As the industrial revolution continued into the 1800s, many men lost their jobs to these groups who were paid lower wages.
Who are women and children?
200
How many specific documents should an effective DBQ address in its introduction paragraph?
What is zero?
300
In this letter, Simon Bolivar called for the independence of Latin America from Spain in order to escape mercantilist regulations.
What is the Letter from Jamaica?
300
This fossil fuel was essential to the operation of early steam engines.
What is coal?
300
These man-made features were particularly popular in England for their use in transporting goods at much lower prices than transporting the them over roads.
What are canals?
300
This new country adopted this flag to celebrate its independence from France in 1807.
What is Haiti?
300
This was the most profitable product produced by the slaves on Saint Domingue in the 1700s.
What is sugar?
300
This way of making money for middle class men involved acquiring capital in order to start a new business.
What is an "entrepreneur?"
300
The beginning of a body paragraph in a DBQ should include this type of sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
400
This new nation state in the 1870s combined dozens of smaller states including Prussia, Saxony, Mecklenburg, Hanover, and Bavaria.
What is Germany?
400
The Second Industrial Revolution provided a cheaper method for making this material that was essential to the expansion of railroads.
What is steel?
(This new material was used to make the thousands of miles of rails that were laid down around the world in the 1800s.)
400
The term developed by historians to describe the growth of cities in the 1800s.
What is urbanization?
400
Since most people in Greece were Christian, nationalism fueled a revolution that brought Greeks independence from this mostly Muslim Empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
400
In what region did the Industrial Revolution first take place?
What is Northwest Europe?
or
What is Western Europe?
400
Homeless people in England in the 1700s were required to live in this type of institution as an effort to reduce crime and maximize production.
What is a "work house?"
400
The number of documents a superior DBQ response will use in support of an appropriate thesis
What is seven?
500
This French colony declared its independence in 1804 and changed its name to Haiti.
What is Saint Domingue?
500
The Second Industrial Revolution provided this new type of energy that was used to light up cities and run factory equipment.
What is electricity?
500
This new machine designed by Jethro Tull for planting crops contributed to a dramatic growth in agricultural production.
What is the seed drill?
500
The title of this painting by Jacques Louis David which celebrated the growing power of the French National Assembly.
What is "the Oath of the Tennis Court?"
500
This division of workers according to their skills expanded dramatically as people left their farms and moved into the cities.
What is "specialization of labor?"
or
What is "specialization?"
500
Multiple families of industrial working class people often lived together in this type of apartment building.
What is a tenement?
500
This type of UPHI analysis requires an explanation of how contempory events influenced what the author wrote.
What is "historical situation?"
600
John Locke maintained that government has the responsibility to protect these.
What are natural rights?
or
What are "life, liberty, and property?"
600
This form of communication relied on electricity and made use of Morse code.
What is a telegraph?
600
Growing industrial cities endeavored to address the rise in crime by building many more of these structures as a deterrent.
What are jails?
or
What are prisons?
or
What are work houses?
600
The Maori fought a series of wars against the British in this modern-day country "down under."
What is New Zealand?
600
These organizations set standards for the manufacturing of products by hand in the days before the introduction of factories.
What are guilds?
600
This way of thinking encouraged middle class women to focus on raising children and taking care of the home.
What is the "cult of domesticity?
600
An effective explanation of ultimate purpose for sourcing should address this.
What is an action that the author hopes to inspire his readers to take.