DBQ: Change & Conflict in Colonial America (Answer Key Included)
Why did the English colonies keep erupting? Students dig through seven documents, from an indenture contract to a Great Awakening sermon, to answer: Evaluate the factors that led to change and conflict in the English American colonies from 1607 to 1754. The worksheet walks them from raw documents to a finished essay outline.
What’s inside
7 documents: a 1619 indenture contract, Winthrop’s “City Upon a Hill,” Bacon’s Manifesto, Howard Zinn on Bacon’s Rebellion, a 1685 report on King Philip’s War, an account of a 1739 slave revolt in South Carolina, and Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
A 3-step worksheet: take notes on each document, group them into 2-3 themes, write an intro paragraph
An optional extension to turn each group into a full body paragraph
An answer key with sample notes, groupings, and an intro paragraph
Details: 45-90 minutes | Grades 8-12 | PDF, 16 pages
Also part of the Unit 2: Colonial Era plan.
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