List of Previous DBQ Topics Already Asked (1973-2003)

Years Covered	Topic	Exam
1607-1700	Early English Colonization	1993
1750-1776	Colonial Unity & Identity	1999
1750-1780	Democracy in Wethersfield, CT	1976
1781-1789	Articles of Confederation	1985
1789	Alien & Sedition Acts	1977
1801-1817	Jefferson & Madison: Constructionists?	1998
1820-1839	Jacksonian Democrats	1990
1815-1825	Nationalism & Sectionalism in the Era of Good Feelings	2002(B)
1790-1839	Jackson and Indian Removal	1980
1825-1850	Antebellum Reform Movements	2002
1776-1876	Northern Middle Class Women	1981
1850-1861	The Constitution & Crises of the 1850s	1987
1859-1863	John Brown	1982
1860	Lincoln & the Crittenden Compromise	1974
1865-1877	Social & Political Changes of Reconstruction	1996
1840-1899	The Settlement of the West	1992
1865-1900	Federal Government and Lassiez-Faire	1979
1875-1900	Labor in the Gilded Age	2000
1800-1900	Agrarian Unrest & the Populists	1983
1877-1915	Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois	1989
1830-1914	American Expansionism/Imperialism	1994
1899	Ratification of the Treaty of Paris in 1899	1975
1890-1925	Evolution of Women in American society	1997
1900-1919	Prohibition	1978
1917-1921	The Senate Defeat of the Versailles Treaty	1991
1900-1920	Effectiveness of Progressive Era Reformers	2003(B)
1920-1929	Change and Tension in the Roaring Twenties	1986
1924	Immigration Act of 1924	1973
1928-1945	Hoover & FDR: Liberal or Conservative?	1984
1929-1941	The New Deal and Expansion of Government	2003
1939-1947	The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb	1988
1948-1961	Eisenhower’s Success in the Cold War	2001
1960-1969	The Civil Rights Movement	1995

Possible DBQ Topics for 2004 and Beyond

• The Collision of Worlds: Europeans, Indians, and Africans
• Tensions/Rebellions in Colonial Society in the 17^th and/or 18^th century(s)
• Factors Leading To Rebellion Against England (1763-1776)
• The Constitution: Compromises, Ratification, Impact
• Washington’s/Adam’s/Jefferson’s Political Legacies
• Louisiana Purchase/Lewis and Clark
• War of 1812: Causes, Impact, Significance
• Re-emergence of the Two Party System
• States Rights & Controversies in the Age of Jackson
• The Market Revolution during the Antebellum Age
• Mexican War and the Expansion of Slavery
• The New South: Politics, the Economy, “Colonial Status”
• Native Americans (some section of the Civil War-1970s)
• Causes/Impact of Industry and Technology during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Urbanization and City Life (1870s-1910s)
• Intellectual and Cultural Movements (late 1800s-early 1900s)
• The Rise of Conservationism and the Environmental Movement
• WWI and/or WWII: Motives and/or Impacts [political, social, economic]; WWII Home Front
• Foreign Policy Between the World Wars
• Great Depression: Causes, Impact (social, economic, cultural)
• 1950s Culture, Economics, and Politics by Itself or Compared to the 1920s
• The Stormy Sixties/Seventies: Vietnam, Assassinations, Civil Rights, Hippies, Watergate
• Political Compromises in Early US History: Constitution vs. Civil War
• Civil Liberties During Wartime (quasi-war, Civil War, WWI, WWII)
• Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement
• Change in the role and office of the Presidency or the federal government (post WWII)
• Change in 20^th Century US foreign policy: imperialism to isolationism to interventionism