<p>Can we discuss the DBQ for the APUSH test yet?</p>
<p>Can any moderator approve this?</p>
<p>So the DBQ question was:
" To what extend did technology, economic and political issues change the American Agriculture from 1865 to 1900?"</p>
<p>"Be sure to include the farmers' response to the issues."</p>
<p>So what did you all put?</p>
<p>Yes it has been 2 days.</p>
<p>The DBQ, I'm worried I didn't use enough outside info. I used Munn v Illinois, Wabash v Illinois, the Homestead Act, Indian reservations, I named some technological advancements, the Bland-Allison Act, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, other facts I knew about overproduction, other problems such as middlemen, and then I had a whole paragraph about resulting movements- Patrons of Husbandry, Grange, Populism. Is that enough?
So I screwed up Munn v Illinois and Wabash v Illinois, as in I mixed up the two and said Munn was good for farmers, how many points will I lose for that?
I put technology and economic circumstance into one paragraph, had one paragraph about government policy, and one about results like Populism, is that ok?</p>
<p>Laura1212 - That's a lot more detail and evidence than I used in my exam, and I got a 5. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.</p>
<p>Thanks. :)
I remembered at the last second, once I'd already done the other essays that I totally forgot the Homestead Act in there even though I put it in my outline, and rushed to put it in with little asterisks, I hope they count that.</p>
<p>yeah homestead act was out of the period though.</p>
<p>-Populist Party
-Granges Movement
-Sherman Silver Purchase Act
-Mckinley Tariff of 1890
-Bimetallism issue
-Sherman Anti Trust
-Interstate Commerce Act
-Dawes Severalty Act</p>
<p>my essay was weak on the technology aspect.. i just talked about the mechanization of farming</p>
<p>I knew it was passed in 1862 too, but it still affected farmers from 1865-1900, thats why i figured it was okay to throw it out there anyways.</p>
<p>For technology I mentioned
- railroads, Great Northern
- barbed wire, Glidden
- dry farming + deep plow techniques
- irrigation
- Russian wheat
- mail order windmills</p>
<p>yeah it was close enough. quite a number of people in my class wrote about the AAA from the new deal....</p>
<p>^^^ haha</p>
<p>I thought I wrote some pretty detailed stuff, but now that i've read some of yours I feel like I should have written more.</p>
<p>Technology:</p>
<p>Railroads (of course), How the grange party wanted more control on railroads to lessen their power (I talked about how they created time zones, displaying their power), umm I kinda BS'ed about farming techniques and I accidentally talked about the mechanical reaper.. whoops, and I said those techniques led to an increase in overpopulation and a drop in prices</p>
<p>Government:</p>
<p>Damnit, I forgot to write about Wabash vs. Illinois and instead I just said, "In this one Supreme Court case" or something like that lol. I said the government pretty much did very minimal things to help farmers, and I talked about Coxey's Army and how they marched to Washington DC to protest how the government has not intervened to help aid the Panic of 1893</p>
<p>Economy:</p>
<p>I talked about "Bimetallists", the Populists and I used the last document to talk about William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech and how the coinage of silver would improve the economy and cause inflation to help farmers and I talked about the Election of 1896 and how McKinley won which led to the demise of the Populists but the Panic of 1893 ultimately ended. Oh, I also used two of the documents saying how one of them forshadowed the Panic of 1893 hinting how overproduction made the prices drop extremely low and the other one was in 1894 after the panic and showed how there was poverty for farmers and stuff like that...</p>
<p>Hopefully I did well on that. :-P</p>
<p>no one talked about Share-cropping and tenant farmers?</p>
<p>I did not talk about the following:
-Sherman Silver Purchase Act (though I did talk about silver)
-Mckinley Tariff of 1890 (I talked about the Panic of 1893)
-Bimetallism issue
-Sherman Anti Trust
-Interstate Commerce Act
-Dawes Severalty Act</p>
<p>If I'm missing those acts^^ what's the highest I could get?</p>
<p>^^^ ****! Nope, I remember I was gonna talk about that in by using that one document but I ended up forgetting to use it. What aspect would you use it for, anyway? Government? No. Technology? Probably not. Economic? Maybe, but I don't really see the corrolation.</p>
<p>I mentioned the Homestead Act, knowing that it was before the time period. I just explained its effects and lasting influence.</p>
<p>does anyone remember the exact wording of the dbq? i don't think it was "changed american agriculture". i think it was "influenced am. agri." b/c change means you have to talk about what it was like befor vs. now. </p>
<p>and my teacher said as long as you used some outside info wouldve been good becuz the topic was so random, and most students were stumped.</p>
<p>@ Laura. I thought Munn was good for the farmers as it upheld the constitutionality of the Granger Laws in Illinois. That was discussed in one of the documents too.</p>
<p>But it made it so that states could control rates. The Wabash one made the federal government do that, and created the Interstate Commerce Comission, thus I think the Wabash was the one that was better for the farmers. Though I won't mind if that Munn was the better one, one bit, as that's what I have in my essay.</p>
<p>I didn't use any outside info at all...I think all I used was the cotton gin and reaper as technologies.</p>
<p>Is outside info THAT important? I hope I don't lose a ton of points because of it. I didn't know anything about that time period.</p>
<p>^^Outside info is THE MOST important thing on USH DBQ. Without any, you could hope for at the most a 4.</p>
<p>I talked about cotton gin and the interchangeable parts stuff. I did not say they were invented during that period, I just said the cotton gin and the interchangeable parts, along with the railroad, increased production, and then led to over production, which led to Panic of 1893.</p>
<p>hey wisely, what was the exact ques. for the dbq?
i dont think i answered ALL parts of it...</p>