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Colonization DBQ Packet

Name: ______________________________

Directions for DBQ (Democracy in Colonial America)

PRE ESSAY Checklist (Do the following things before you write your essay)

1. Read what the essay is about – historical context and task

2. As you analyze the documents, highlight what information will help your essay

3. At the top of the document, write which task the document answers (1 or 2)

4. Answer each question for each document

POST ESSAY Checklist (DO NOT HAND THIS IN UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE ALL OF THE

FOLLOWING:

1. Your essay must be legible (clear to read)

2. Your essay must include the following:

o Introductory Paragraph (use parts of the historical context and the task for your thesis)

o Body Paragraph 1

Must have a topic sentence

Must include outside information and reference documents

o Body Paragraph 2

Must have a topic sentence

Must include outside information and reference documents

o Conclusion (restate the thesis and summarize your topic sentences from each body

paragraph)

3. You must use at least 4 documents in your essay

o After writing the document information, put (Doc #) at the end of the sentence(s). For example: “Slaves were forbidden from learning to read or write (Doc 6).”

Emergency Lesson Plan –1st 6 Weeks

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Part A – Document Questions

Document 1 Maryland’s Act of Toleration (1649)

…be it therefore with the advice and consent of

this assembly ordered and enacted…that no

person or persons within Maryland professing to

believe in any form of Christianity shall from now

on be in any way troubled, interfered with or

embarrassed in respect to his or her religion, nor

in the free exercise thereof…

1. In what state was this law passed? (1)

2. What freedom is protected by this law? (1)

Document 2 Voting Qualifications (Requirements) (1763)

1. Name two of the main qualifications (requirements) for voting in the thirteen colonies. (2)

2. Name two groups of people that could not vote in colonial America because of these qualifications (requirements) (2)

Document 3

Virginia House of Burgesses

This picture shows a meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses (Representatives). This groups served at the legislature (or law makers) of colonial Virginia. It was made up of individuals who were chosen by the colonists of Virginia. Eventually, each colony in America would have a legislature.

1. Where was this legislature founded? (1)

2. How did the House of Burgesses allow colonists to have a

voice in government? (1)

Document 4

John Peter Zenger Trial

Below is a piece of Alexander Hamilton’s lengthy summation to the jury before they arrived at a verdict in the John Peter Zenger Trial.

1. According to the document above, who was put on trial? (1)

2. Using the reading above, name one right Alexander Hamilton

claimed to be natural? (1)

It is natural, it is a privilege, I will go farther, it is a right, which all free men claim, that they are entitled to complain when they are hurt. They have a right publicly to remonstrate [protest] against the abuses of power in the strongest terms, to put their neighbors upon their guard against the craft or open violence of men in authority, and to assert with courage the sense they have of the blessings of liberty, the value they put upon it, and their resolution at all hazards to preserve it as one of the greatest blessings heaven can bestow. . . .

Document 5

Title Page from The Lady’s Law This document is the title page of a book that included many of the legal restrictions faced by “femme coverts,” women legally dependent on a husband. Once married, colonial women could not own property or collect wages. Men routinely gained custody of children in cases of divorce. Note: in colonial-era texts, a lower case ‘s’ often looks like a lower case ‘f.’ To help today’s students interpret this old style, chapter headings have been reprinted below:

I. Of Descents of Lands to Females, Coparceners, etc. II. Of Consummation of Marriage, Stealing of Women,

Rapes, Polygamy III. Of the Laws of Procreation of Children, and of

Illegitimate Children IV. Of the Privileges of Femme Coverts, and Their Power in Regard to Their Husbands,

and all Others

V. Of Husband and Wife, in what Actions they are to Join

VI. Of the Limitations on Inheritance of Estates, Jointures and Settlements, Real and Personal of Women

VII. Of What the Wife is Entitled to of the Husband’s, and things Belonging to the Wife, the Husband gains Possession of in Marriage

VIII. Of Private Contracts by the Wife, Alimony, Separate Maintenance, Divorces, Elopement, etc…

1. What is the title of this document? (1)

2. According to this document, how were women unequal to men in

colonial times? (1)

3. According to this document, what happened to children in

cases of divorce? (1)

Document 6 The Plan of a Slave Ship

The pictures above show the plan to stow (store) 292 slaves below the deck of the ship; most of the slaves are stowed in shelves with a height of 2 feet 7 inches.

Although slavery existed in all thirteen colonies, it quickly became a vital

part of the southern economy. Slavery was a permanent, hereditary

condition. Slaves had no legal rights and were forbidden to read or write.

The document above shows the horrible conditions on board a slave ship.

1. Describe one way a slave trade was able to fit slaves on a ship.

(1)

2. Name two way slaves were not allowed basic democratic

freedoms? (2)

Document 7 Chart on Governor’s Power

1. Who appointed the governor of each colony? (1)

2. Name one power of the colonial governor that would have

upset colonists? (1)

Document 8 Salem Witch Trials 1692

In June of 1692, the special Court of Oyer (to hear) and Terminer (to decide) sat in Salem to hear the cases of witchcraft. Presided over by Chief Justice William Stoughton, the court was made up of magistrates (judges) and jurors. Twenty individuals accused of witchcraft had little evidence against them but were found guilty and sentenced to death. The trial was only a trial in name only as the accused did not have a lawyer and had two options: recant (admit your crime and promise to stop) or refuse to admit you were a witch (or wizard for males) and be put to death.

1. What crime were these individuals charged with? (1)

2. Why was this trial not fair? (1)

Part B: Document Based Question

Directions:

Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs, and a

conclusion.

Use evidence from the documents to support your response.

Include specific related outside information.

Historical Context: Due to British political traditions, distance from the mother country

(England/ Britain), and other factors, the thirteen colonies in America began early on to

develop democratic features. Despite this, many aspects of colonial life were strikingly

undemocratic. A close look at that time period suggests that colonial democracy was a work

in progress (slowly developing).

Task: Using information from the documents and your knowledge of Social

Studies, write an essay in which you:

Identify and discuss at least two democratic features (rights people had)

in colonial America.

Identify and discuss at least two undemocratic features (ways rights

were denied) in colonial America.

***Be sure to include specific historical details. You must also

include additional outside information from your knowledge of

social studies.

***You must include at least 4 documents in your essay.

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