Immigration DBQ Primary Source Analysis

Immigration DBQ

This lesson will allow students to analyze the hardships that immigrants faced in the late 1800s and early 1900s in the United States. They can work in a group or alone to analyze primary source 7 documents and respond to an essay prompt.

This is a great opportunity to introduce non-AP students to the process of responding to a document based question.

Activity Overview:
1. Warm up question- individual written responses or whole class discussion
2. Song Analysis (Bruce Springsteen “American Land”)
3. DBQ introduction
4. Step by step instructions to guide the students through the activity
File Includes:
• Whole Activity in Power Point
• Instructions and Documents in a Word File
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