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APUSH Period 5 DBQ Exam - SY2021

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APUSH Period 5 DBQ Exam:​ Document-Based Question (30%)

Suggested Reading Time: ​15 minutes
Suggested Writing Time: ​45 minutes

Directions: ​Question 1 is based on the accompanying documents. The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.

In your response you should do the following:
  • Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning.
  • Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt.
  • Support an argument in response to the prompt using at least ​six​ documents.
  • Use at least one additional piece of specific historically evidence (beyond that found in thedocuments) relevant to an argument about the prompt.
  • For at least three documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, purpose,historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument.
  • Use evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt.
All writing and ideas should be purely your own. Please refrain from using any outside resources, i.e. the Google, copy-paste, etc.

Essays will be graded based on a curve of the AP rubric (7 points). This time around, no partial points will be awarded. Your goal is to earn 3/7 full points:
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Please read Document 1 and determine whether or not you are going to use it to write your DBQ. Use the "Show Your Work" functions to mark up the text as needed.

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Please read Document 2 and determine whether or not you are going to use it to write your DBQ. Use the "Show Your Work" functions to mark up the text as needed.

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Please read Document 3 and determine whether or not you are going to use it to write your DBQ. Use the "Show Your Work" functions to mark up the text as needed.

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Please read Document 4 and determine whether or not you are going to use it to write your DBQ. Use the "Show Your Work" functions to mark up the text as needed.

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Please read Document 5 and determine whether or not you are going to use it to write your DBQ. Use the "Show Your Work" functions to mark up the text as needed.

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Please read Document 6 and determine whether or not you are going to use it to write your DBQ. Use the "Show Your Work" functions to mark up the text as needed.

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Please read Document 7 and determine whether or not you are going to use it to write your DBQ. Use the "Show Your Work" functions to mark up the text as needed.

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Optional: Here is some space to plan out your essay if that will be helpful.

This part is ungraded, so don't spend too much time here.

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Evaluate to what extent Reconstruction was a failure for the newly emancipated blacks in the period from 1865 to 1877.