DBQ Quiz Review

PERSIA Chart

• Almost every essay prompt will require you to understand various categories historians utilize to analyze historical events

• PERSIA is a simple way to remember the 6 main categories you must know to construct an effective essay

• Political, Economic, Religious, Social, Intellectual & Arts

Essay

• Intro- Thesis Statement• 3 body paragraphs- each should have 3

different points to support your thesis

For Each quiz pick the 3 areas from PERSIA you will focus on

• Political• Dred scott case• Compromise of 1850• Republican v. democrat ideals

• Social• Need for slave labor in the south• John Brown • Underground railroad

• Arts• Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beacher Stowe• Fredrick Douglas Narrative life of Frederick Douglas• Hinton R. Helper’s The Impending Crisis of the South

• Document J

Voyage from Africa, 1756"In a little time after, amongst the poor chained men, I found some of my own nation, which in a small degree gave ease to my mind. I inquired of them what was to be done with us? They gave me to understand we were to be carried to these white people's country to work for them. I then was a little revived, and thought, if it were no worse than working, my situation was not so desperate: but still I feared I should be put to death, the white people looked and acted, as I thought, in so savage a manner; for I had never seen among any people such instances of brutal cruelty. . . The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable. Happily perhaps for myself I was soon reduced so low here that it was thought necessary to keep me almost always on deck. . . . One day, when we had a smooth sea, and moderate wind, two of my wearied countrymen, preferring death to such a life of misery, somehow made through the nettings, and jumped into the sea; . . . . and I believe many more would very soon have done the same, if they had not been prevented by the ship's crew, who were instantly alarmed." Gustavus Vasa, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olandah Equiano or Gustavus Vasa, Written by Himself (London: Printed and sold by the author, 1793), p. 46-53.

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The Emancipation ProclamationJanuary 1, 1863 A TranscriptionBy the President of the United States of America:

“ That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.”

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