Analyze the ways in which technology, government policy, and economic conditions changed American agriculture in the period 1865–1900. In your answer be sure to evaluate farmers’ responses to these changes.

Follow the process described below and use the links to help you formulate a well-organized essay with a clearly stated thesis, or argument, in response to the assignment. In your response, you should do the following:

State a relevant thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question.
Support the thesis or a relevant argument with evidence from all, or all but one, of the documents.
Incorporate analysis of all, or all but one, of the documents into your argument.
Focus your analysis of each document on at least one of the following: intended audience, purpose, historical context, and/or point of view.
Support your argument with analysis of historical examples outside the documents.
Connect historical phenomena relevant to your argument to broader events or processes.
Synthesize the elements above into a persuasive essay.
Upload your essay to the Graded Activities panel at the left-hand side of the screen along with notes taken during the essay development.

Process

Follow these steps to complete your DBQ essay. Use the links provided to help review the writing guidelines you learned in this unit. Keep an informal record of notes, reflections, and answers to some of the guiding questions and submit it along with your essay when have completed it.

Gather sources. Using what you learned in this unit, examine the sources provided with the DBQ. For each source, consider the following:
Who authored the document?
What is the purpose of the document?
When was the document written?
Why is the document an important historical document?
How will this document help your historical inquiry?
For further information on DBQ, use the following resource: AP US History: The DBQ