<p>south used literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes to combat northern legislation and reform towards black</p>
<p>The DBQ DESTROYED me. </p>
<h1>3: I talked about how Lincoln came up with a national currency and started organizing businesses and such to spur economic development during the war, and how after the war, it gave the gov't a more controlling role over the economy...for the race relations, I just talked about the usual stuff - 14th amendment, freedmen's bureau, congressional reconstruction, etc.</h1>
<p>A lot of people I know screwed up with the 1950's essay 'cause they talked about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King and such, forgetting that most of that stuff happened in the SIXTIES. I knew that if I tried to do Civil Rights I would end up using stuff from the 60's, so I went with Youth and Intellectuals and talked about rock-and-roll, Elvis' gyrating hips, Alfred Kinsey, Anne Sexton, McCarthyism, dancing and contraception.</p>
<p>Rosa Parks' bus sit-in occured in the 50's.</p>
<p>This is from some pages ago... but I wanted to bring it up again.</p>
<p>The civil war question asked how things were BEFORE and AFTER the civil war in relation to westward expansion, race relations, and economics. The Mexican War certainly does pertain to this question, because it occured in the same century. In a historical context, and even absolutely, they weren't too far from each other. And that's when we won California, which kicked up some dirt regarding territorial rights to slaves, .etc...</p>
<p>I answered that question, and my answers to all three sections was basically that, before the civil war, the federal government was strong, but its preoccupation with pacifying the growing rift in American opinion let the states gain lots of power. After the civil war, any notion of "State's Rights" was basically sunk, and all states were firmly placed under the government's thumb, in the north and the south.</p>
<p>Okay, well, I'll grant you that, but I know that I would've screwed up and talked about King's assassination or something, so I just steered cleer from it...:)</p>
<p>takeme2cali: my #2 was almost identical. talked about fishing in NE and then what you have.</p>
<h1>4: Immigrants: KKK revival, National Origins Act and quota stuff (basically same as everyone else) Business: 3 progressive presidents, Shermen and Clayton anti-trust, Mellon's soak the rich policies, FTC, etc, etc.</h1>
<p>I couldn't remember what King did, specifically, so I mentioned Rosa Parks, Brown V. Board, and name-dropped MLK as a notable figure.</p>
<p>I didn't keep my discussion to the 50's, however. I had to talk about how the 50's influenced the 60's and 70's... I explained that the 50's was the basis of all that and I just couldn't keep from talking about things that happened in those time periods... I talked about how the youth's protests against the Korean war and the then codling Vietnam war, especially the protesting of the draft, led to things like the 26th amendment (In my essay I fudged it and called it the 27th). I think that, so long as you explain why you're "digressing," discussing the decades afterward is relevant and on-topic. I could be wrong though, that's just what I did.</p>
<p>number 4 was a pretty easy question</p>
<p>i agree with munro for number 5- most students know more about the youth stuff during the 60s and 70s. Not on the 50s. ALl they cared about was the beetles and Mccarty</p>
<p>yeah it wasn't too bad...there was so much to write about that I ran outta time, so I had some stuff i wanted to include but couldn't (or had to just mention it briefly).</p>
<p>anyone else add the temperance movement in for their dbq?</p>
<p>How did you relate the temperance movement to the advancement of women's rights, besides their involvement in it?</p>
<p>so there WERE protests against the Korean war? I went out on a limb and said that the student protests against the Korean war set a precedent for the Vietnam protests of the sixties.</p>
<p>I thought that FRQ #5 didn't specifically restrict a response to the 1950s. It only says that there was conformity and consensus in that time period. The essay was to analyze the many critiques on this conformity, which I believe can carry through the 60s and 70s as well.</p>
<p>But maybe I'm just wrong...</p>
<p>Actually, we never covered protests on the Korean War, but it'd be illogical to assume that there weren't... Hitler, the most popular politician ever, was polling in the upper 90's (98%, I think), and Germans were protesting his war... There has never been an uncontested war, and I think that the issues behind the Vietnam protests ('Why the hell are we fighting?'), were just as present during the Korean War...</p>
<p>munro: how does #3 address the time period BEFORE the civil war? it says how did those three things change because of the civil war during the years 1861-1877...that most definately does not include the mexican war (1846-48).</p>
<p>Really? My bad. I answered that question, but only the economic and race relations part. My mistake.</p>
<p>does it bother anyone else that they don't give us a more detailed score report? For example, if you had scored only one point away from a 5, wouldn't you like to know it? they just slap a score on you and call it a day. Is there any way to see what score you got on the essays and the multiple choice?</p>
<p>yeah I agree... but would you really want to know if you were just 1 point away from a 5, but didn't get it?</p>
<p>On the DBQ I talked about the second great awakening and how it envoked temperance movements of women which lead to abolition movements to equality movements. That was my basic outside info but it was larger than this.</p>
<p>yeah but wasn't that the progressive era which was after the outbreak of the civil war?
I remember specifically the DBQ asking about the time period from like 1776 to the outbreak of the Civil War</p>