Section #2 - DBQ Resources
DBQ Overview
Our Toolkit provides two different DBQ opportunities.
The first involves direct access to verbatim excerpts from historical texts between 1607 and 1861, along with proposed questions for students to address. For example:
Read the 10th Amendment in the Bill of Rights:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Then answer this question: “How does this Amendment impact the South’s claim to States’ Rights and their defense of slavery?”
Below is a list of the DBQ’s involving historical texts we will provide, some ready now and others (marked *) under construction.
A second and unique path to designing DBQ’s, involves “visual history” as captured in a private collection of some 3,000 original 19th century photographs covering people, places and events that bring early American history to life. Here is one DBQ example.
Look carefully at these two photographs:
Then answer this question: “What do the photographs tell you about living as an enslaved person?”
Below is a list of the actual Source Document Text available to you, some directly hyperlinked in blue, others easily access on Google.
You may also create visually-driven DBQ’s around paintings, photographs and lithographs of people, places and events which capture the pre-Civil War timeframe. The website allows you to choose from over 3,000 of these original 19th century images, many unpublished. To find what you want simply click on the categories listed below.https://roadtothecivilwar.org/chapter/war-of-1812/
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