1. Great Depression DBQ

2. CONTEXTUALIZATION (DBQ ONLY)
You will not be given this point, you must earn it!
3 sentences is a minimum and might not be enough.
Graders have a list of acceptable terms and topics.
You must include the terms and topics that are on the list.
Use specific historical evidence that is within 20 years of time period on both ends and carries through time period. Mostly covering the stated time period.
Show understanding of big ideas, conflicts, and movements that are not directly stated in the documents.
If you don’t know it, skip it and go to thesis.
If time is concern, skip and do in conclusion if time allows.

3. Contextualization Sample
Over speculation in the stock market at a time of weakening economic factors led to a stock market crash in 1929 which resulted in bank failures across the nation. The Great Depression was the most severe economic recession in the history of the United States and lasted from 1929 to It was characterized by unemployment of 25%, financial ruin, and for some a loss of faith in capitalism. Recovery was challenging because the Depression was global and the American government had no experience in orchestrating an economic turnaround because of its reliance on laissez faire policies keeping “hands off” the economy. Efforts of both Hoover and Roosevelt were attacked by political opponents and despite their efforts the economy would not truly recover until American industry went back to work as the Arsenal of Democracy in WWII. (Contextualization)

4. THESIS STATEMENT & TOPIC SENTENCES
Use the formula!
Create categories that can be used to answer the prompt Y statement answers prompt with your position.
Categories need to be more specific than PERSIA but it is usually a good starting point to organize ideas.
Political or Economic is not good enough but political rights of African Americans or economic opportunities for women is.
CCOT= Paragraph needs to focus on one specific category of continuity or change in time period (A change that occurred was …)
Compare & Contrast= Paragraph needs to focus on one specific category of similarity or difference (A similarity between Hoover and Roosevelt was …)

5. THESIS STATEMENT & TOPIC SENTENCES
You can use the words of the prompt as a skeleton for your thesis, topic sentences and body paragraphs to keep you focused on answering the prompt. This is not English class!
Topic sentences are one part of your thesis that will be proven in the paragraph.
(A change that occurred was …)
(A similarity between Hoover and Roosevelt was …)
Simple organization is more likely to score well on rubric.

6. Thesis Samples
A similarity between the responses of Hoover and Roosevelt to the problems of the Great Depression is that they both utilized federal funds for programs that attempted to provide recovery for the economy. However, a difference between their responses includes that fact the Franklin Roosevelt provided more government regulation of the American economy than Herbert Hoover did and that Hoover was less inclusive of African Americans in his relief programs than FDR. Therefore, there were more differences than similarities when comparing the responses of Roosevelt and Hoover to the Great Depression

7. BODY PARAGRAPHS
Expand on the idea related to each document to show knowledge of the subject. Cite after making a specific connection to an idea found in the document (doc 1). The document itself should only be part of the story.
HIPP every document and use specific HIPP term.
Historical Context: What was going on in the time period and/or location that is relevant to this specific document?
Intended Audience: What audience did the author intend this for and why?
Point of View: What is the POV of the author and how might it cause bias?
Purpose: Why was this document created? What outcome is desired?
Include outside evidence to prove your TS/Thesis. What else could they have included a document to demonstrate but didn’t. An additional piece of evidence in support of your argument is …

8. BODY PARAGRAPH SAMPLE
A similarity between Hoover and Roosevelt’s responses to the Great Depression is that they both spent federal money in an attempt to aid the recovery of the American economy. Hoover established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to prop up with federal dollars key industries vital to the American economy. In Roosevelt’s New Deal, he spent an enormous amount of federal money for public works programs (Doc 5). This included the Public Works Administration which provided unemployed workers with jobs building infrastructure like roads, dams, and schools. The purpose of Garrison was to explain that the investment of the federal government made in improving the impoverished state of the nation, which no administration had ever done before, came at a significant cost politically and economically. Hoover himself had spent over 3 billion dollars a year to combat the Depression but Roosevelt doubled and eventually more than tripled that (Doc 7). The historical context of this information is that the federal government had never spent money to stimulate financial recovery before and was now doing so at the expense of running up huge deficits. Programs like the RFC and PWA corroborate that both Hoover and Roosevelt spent federal money in hopes of aiding recovery.

9. SYNTHESIS

10. Synthesis Practice
Complete this paragraph: The Great Depression and Roosevelt’s New Deal can be compared to the time period of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in two ways.

11. Synthesis Sample
The Great Depression and Roosevelt’s New Deal can be compared to the time period of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in two ways. First, both Presidents took action to make elderly Americans feel more secure economically as they aged. Roosevelt’s Social Security Act did this by paying Americans over the age of 65 a monthly stipend to help protect them from financial insecurity. Similarly, by providing medical coverage to elderly Americans through the Medicare program, Johnson protected senior citizens form the concern of medical treatment bringing them financial ruin. A second similarity between the two periods is that both Roosevelt and Johnson attempted to provide aid to the poorest Americans. FDR did this through the Federal Emergency Relief Administration which provided direct relief to the unemployed. Later, Johnson launched a War on Poverty which expanded welfare and food stamps programs for the poorest Americans.