<p>Which Free Response did you do, and what stance did you take?</p>
<p>I did 3, the Mexican War one, and 5, the movement one.</p>
<p>For the Mexican war I said that the debates represented sectional interests to a great extent. I used the Wilmot Proviso, Calhoun-Davis Debates, Manifest Destiny, Compromise of 1850 and more. Mostly I talked about the sectional interests concerning slavery.</p>
<p>For the movement one I did Civil Rights and anti-war. I said that they changed society greatly. I used the Civil Rights bill of 64, sit-ins, marches, MLK, Malcom X, SNCC, SCLC, Rosa Parks and reflected on modern society. For antiwar I used, public reactions to the Tet Offensive and Bay of Pigs, college protests (Kent State), hippies, counter-culture, and abstainments of voting and more. It was pretty easy i thought.</p>
<p>For the DBQ I said that the revolution DID NOT have much change on American society, because it mostly reverted back to practices socially, politically, and economically that it had during the colonial periods.</p>
<p>I'd be very interested as to what other people did. Please share all.</p>
<p>I said the revolutionary war changed society because America had to and desired to develop thier own culture separate from Birtain. Also, because of the justification for their independance from Britain (life , libery, and pursuit oif happiness) , I said lots of peopoel had to rethink present systems (slavery, woman's rights, etc). sure not an immediate change, but it was a start of a new and unique American society.</p>
<p>hope I proved my thesis and just didn't spew opinions and facts..</p>
<p>Well weekends shouldn't count but if it's on there it doesn't matter.</p>
<p>For the DBQ: Probably weak. I also mentioned how British still occupied trading posts and encouraged Indians to fight Americans..leading to the hatred of Americans thing. There was a document about an Indian that was saying congrats to Americans for getting free I think..but I didn't use it. Economic activity..well Americans were in some major debt. They asked France and Netherlands (right?) for money. Started producing too much paper money that soon became worthless..the phrase "not worth a continental" came about. [url=<a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/revolution/section10.rhtml%5DHere's%5B/url">http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/revolution/section10.rhtml]Here's[/url</a>] some info that probably would have been useful in the DBQ from Sparknotes. </p>
<p>Okay, for Immigration, I chose the 2 topics that described both the old and the new immigrants.
Old Immigrants:
Northern Europe (Germany, Ireland)
Farmers
Nativism kinda grew in this period right?
Common signs in retail shops: "Irish need not Apply"</p>
<p>New Immigrants (also included 1920s period): >Eastern/Southern Europe >Competed for industrial jobs >I didn't include this, but I SHOULD have mentioned the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act when saying Irish even fought Asian immigrants over railroad jobs. >Know-Nothing Party Developed (late 1800s) >Laborers didn't like them because they did not speak a common language, and they were used to break up strikes >Lived in slums
^^This brought in some HELPFUL treatment by those such as Jane Adams and the young college women who helped her form settlement houses for these immigrants to learn English and settle</p>
<p>During 1920s: >Ku Klux Klan that favored nothing but the White Protestant >Palmer Raids >Red Scare >Immigration Quotas (Immigration Act of 1924..something like that) >Accused of bringing in supicious documents (i.e. communism, socialism)</p>
<p>Overall..resentment toward immigrants in both periods.</p>
<p>I should have done the antiwar/slavery though..I knew more about that.</p>
<p>I did 3,5.
My 5 one kind of sucked because I wrote about women and all I could provide was feminism and their protests on traditional roles as facts.
For civil rights I put King's march, Freedom riders, sit ins.</p>
<p>For 3 my information was mostly:
-President Polk and Manifest Destiny
-Border dispute (Rio Grande River or Nueces River)
-Generals Zachary Tayor and Winfield Scott
-Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
-Mexican Cession
-Wilmot Proviso
-Stephen Douglas and popular soverignty
-John C. Calhoun
-Compromise of 1850 (lots of details about that)
-Fugitive Slave Act vs. Personal Liberty Laws.</p>
<p>That was probably my strongest essay. My DBQ was just okay because I got really nervous right before the essay section. My last essay wasn't that bad, I guess.</p>
<p>Details for 4 were:</p>
<p>1820-1860
-Old Immigrants
-Mostly from Germany, Ireland, and British Isles
-Irish began replacing "Lowell Girls"-type workers in factories
-Many moved west for farming
-Nativism
-I messed up and said Know-Nothing party started then oops</p>
<p>1880-1924
-Southern and Eastern Europe
-Lots of prejudice against new Catholic and Jewish settlers
-Many lived in poor, urban ghettos
-Excluded from labor unions because they had unskilled jobs mostly
-International Ladies Garment Workers Union (formed by Jewish women in the textile industry)
-More stuff about Know-Nothings
-Red Scare
-Palmer Raids
-Sacco and Vanzetti
-Ku Klux Klan
-Immigration Quota Act of 1924
-Gentleman's Agreement (excluding Japanese immigrants)</p>
<p>Well I did 2 and 5. I won't discuss 2 because there wasn't really much to talk about, my essay was just full of broad generalizations and I'm probably going to get a 3 on it. </p>
<p>For number 5 I used the Civil Rights and women's movements:
Civil Rights:
Voting Rights Act (ultimately ended disfranchisement)
Black Panthers
Black Power and Elijah Muhammad
MLK
Malcom X
SNCC
Civil Rights Act of 1964 </p>
<p>Women's movement:
Feminine Mystique by Friedan
Equal Rights Amendment (even though it failed)
Roe vs. Wade (abortion or birth control)
Loving vs. Virginia (interracial marriage, even though that should have gone with Civil Rights)</p>
<p>Okay, in my school, barely anyone did immigration, and of the few who did, I don't think anyone used the period from 1965-2000. But I did! (Only because LBJ is close to my favorite president... hesitate to make him my fave b/c of Vietnam, but yeah.) Anyway, I was so excited about the FRs I did them first, and saved the DBQ for last. As a result, my DBQ is pretty cruddy, but my FRs kick some X. Anyway, I did number three, which was pretty hot, but I sort of glossed over those Westerners, focused mostly on North and South, I figure I got an 8, maybe a 9. Question 4, that was the rockingest essay I've ever written, so I feel like that's a solid 9. My DBQ had a <em>lot</em> of outside info, but I barely used the documents, and it was radically unfinished. I think I'm looking at somewhere between a 4 and a 6, maybe a 7 if the graders are really generous and/or decide to heavily emphasize outside info at the expense of the docs. But I think I did pretty well on MC, so it's a solid 4, good chance of a 5. But where the DBQ is concerned, is anyone struck by how differently U.S. is scored as opposed to Euro or World? I mean, the stuff they emphasize, what they're looking for, what they don't want to see, that sort of thing? It's completely different.</p>
<p>I really didn't say much about the westerners for 3. I basically just said they wanted more land, but not much more beyond that. I guess there really isn't that much to say about them.</p>
<p>I took World last year, and the DBQ really is graded differently. In US, it's out of 15 points, not 9. Also, in World, there is much more focus on analyzing the documents; finding the bias and point of view. However, in US, I think they look much more for outside information.</p>