Unit 2 DBQ 2
UNITED STATES HISTORY
Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents 1-7 and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period.
I. In what ways did the French and Indian War (1754-63) alter the political, economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies?
Document 1
NORTH AMERICA BEFORE 1754
Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1740-1766 in constructing your response.
Document 2
Source: Canassatego, Chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, speech to representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, 1742.
We know our Lands are now become more valuable. The white People think we do not know their Value: but we are sensible that the Land is everlasting, and the few Goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone .... We are not well used with respect to the lands still unsold by us. Your People daily settle on these Lands, and spoil our Hunting. We must insist on your Removing them, as you know they have no Right to settle.
Document 3
Source: George Washington, letter to Robert Orme, aide-de-camp to General Edward Braddock, March 15, 1755.
It is true Sir, that I have. . expressed an Inclination to serve the ensuing Campaigne as a Volunteer; and this inclination is not a little increased since it is likely to be conducted by a Gentleman of the General's Experience. But, besides this and the laudable desire I may have to serve (with my best abilities) my King & Country, I must be ingenuous enough to confess, that I am not a little biased by selfish considerations. To be plain, Sir, I wish earnestly to attain some knowledge of the Military Profession: and, believing a more favourable opportunity cannot offer, than to serve under a Gentleman of General
Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents 1-7 and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period.
I. In what ways did the French and Indian War (1754-63) alter the political, economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies?
Document 1
NORTH AMERICA BEFORE 1754
Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1740-1766 in constructing your response.
Document 2
Source: Canassatego, Chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, speech to representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, 1742.
We know our Lands are now become more valuable. The white People think we do not know their Value: but we are sensible that the Land is everlasting, and the few Goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone .... We are not well used with respect to the lands still unsold by us. Your People daily settle on these Lands, and spoil our Hunting. We must insist on your Removing them, as you know they have no Right to settle.
Document 3
Source: George Washington, letter to Robert Orme, aide-de-camp to General Edward Braddock, March 15, 1755.
It is true Sir, that I have. . expressed an Inclination to serve the ensuing Campaigne as a Volunteer; and this inclination is not a little increased since it is likely to be conducted by a Gentleman of the General's Experience. But, besides this and the laudable desire I may have to serve (with my best abilities) my King & Country, I must be ingenuous enough to confess, that I am not a little biased by selfish considerations. To be plain, Sir, I wish earnestly to attain some knowledge of the Military Profession: and, believing a more favourable opportunity cannot offer, than to serve under a Gentleman of General