Advanced Placement Ap Questions

Assignment TasksComplete each of the following tasks to investigate the parts of the DBQ essay. 1. Identify the question. Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which the Industrial Revolution influenced global reform efforts from 1877 to 1922. Consider the above prompt. What limitations does the prompt place on the writer, and what choices can the writer make? 2. Write an acceptable thesis. Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which the Industrial Revolution influenced global reform efforts from 1877 to 1922. Draft an initial thesis in response to the prompt. Then explain why the thesis meets the documentbased–question essay’s requirements. 3. Contextualize. Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which the Industrial Revolution influenced global reform efforts from 1877 to 1922. Write two to three sentences describing a broader historical context that is relevant to the above prompt. After you complete your sample, explain how it meets the essay’s requirements for contextualization. 4. Analyze historical evidence. Sample document: Source: John Spargo, a leading public intellectual and historian during the Progressive Era, and author of The Bitter Cry of the Children, 1906 “Children have always worked, but it is only since the reign of the machine that their work has been synonymous with slavery. . . . . . . With the coming of the machine age all this was changed. The craftsman was supplanted by the tireless, soulless machine. The child still worked, but in a great factory throbbing with the vibration of swift, intricate machines. In place of parental interest and affection there was the harsh, pitiless authority of an employer or his agent, looking, not to the child’s well-being and skill as an artificer, but to the supplying of a great, ever widening market for cash gain.” What are the four components of the HIPP strategy for analyzing sources? Model the strategy by using these four components to analyze the above document. 5. Develop a complex argument. To earn full credit, your essay must show that you have a complex understanding of the historical development that you are analyzing. Identify at least three different strategies you could use to meet this requirement in your essay. Then, provide a specific example of how you could use one of your strategies in your essay.