This particular essay prompt and rubric doesn't fit with typical essays using the APUSH format. Therefore, it is more of a "modified" DBQ essay. However, it uses many of the same ideas and is based on topics covered in my APUSH class.
Prompt: The closer the colonizing groups of North America and Native Americans came to each other geographically, socially, and economically, the further apart they grew politically.
The tasks ask the students to identify what types of historical thinking skills