APUSH DBQ Essay.

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<p>"By the 1850's the Constitution, orginally framed as an instrument of national unity, had become source of sectional discord and tension and ultimately contributed to the failure of the union it had created."</p>

<p>Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1850-1861, assess the validity of this statement.</p>

<p>I have a in-class DBQ essay tomorrow, and this is the quote. Can someone please tell me the two sides that I can argue for, and some information I would want to include in this essay? To be honest, I don't really understand what this quote means.</p>

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<p>either you can say the constitution, or even intepretations of the constitution (so you can use court cases...), helped split the north and south up, or that it didn't contribute to the sectionalism</p>

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<p>What does the constitution say?</p>

<p>Amendment X:
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.</p>

<p>Does this Amendment mean that whatever is not written in the Constitution is left for the people to decide? That is the reason the North and the South had different opinions about things, so they went to war?</p>

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<p>Why are you still doing DBQs after the test is over? At my school everyone relaxes after the AP tests.</p>

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<p>APUSH is 2 years at my school.</p>

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<p>Really? So you're in first year? Is that like an equivalent to Pre-AP?</p>

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<p>I don't know. We go really in-depth and stuff. We are entering Reconstruction right now.</p>

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<p>Does it prep you for AP government as well? Because your school's course sounds like unneeded overkill.</p>

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<p>Wow two years...I wouldn't be able to stand it.</p>

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<p>Nope it does not cover AP Gov't.</p>

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<p>Well, its a true quote</p>

<p>It gave rights to all men, yet had measures that recognized the existance of slavery, such as the 3/5 compromise</p>

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<p>my school was apush in 2 years also, it was a killer</p>

<p>especially studying last years crap for the ap exam</p>

<p>yay its over :)</p>

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<p>wait...so you guys started taking it in sophomore year? that must be a heck of torture.....considering the fact that in my class we continually take notes for a whole block(about 90 mins) for, in average, three and half a days a week....</p>

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<p>Amendment X:
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.</p>

<p>Does this Amendment mean that whatever is not written in the Constitution is left for the people to decide? That is the reason the North and the South had different opinions about things, so they went to war?</p>

<p>Can someone answer this please?</p>

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<p>Um, the point of a DOCUMENT BASED QUESTION is to use the DOCUMENTS. You can't answer it with just the question.</p>

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<p>All i can say is this: If you have taken AP USH for two years...you BETTER get a 5.</p>

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<p>that's not true at all. sure, we probably spend more time on topics, but that means that we learned everything up to reconstruction last year. it was really hard to remember everything from that time period. however, everything from that point on was easy.</p>