Hi! Help please!! :) HISTORIES DBQ Form a three paragraph essay. CONTEXTUALIZATION (3 paragrapn essay) * Describes a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. PROMPT: Evaluate the relative importance of individual actions and federal government policies from 1830-1861 as contributing factors of the Civil War. Response must relate the topic of the prompt to broader historical events, developments, or processes that occur before, during, or continue after the time frame of the question. This point is not awarded for merely a phrase or a reference. THESIS / CLAIM Responds to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis/claim that establishes a line of reasoning. The thesis must make a claim that responds to the prompt, rather than merely restating or rephrasing the prompt. The thesis must consist of one or more sentences located in one place, either in the introduction or the conclusion. DOCUMENTS, EVIDENGE, & ANALYSIS Accurately DESCRIBES the content of at least THREE documents to address the topic of the prompt. Quotes are insufficient to earn this point.SUPPORTS an argument in response to the prompt using at least THREE documents. These documents should meet (and exceed) the standard set for snows the description point. For at least TWO documents, EXPLAINS HOW or WHY the document's point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument. USES AT LEAST ONE ADDITIONAL PIECE OF SPECIFIC HISTORICAL EVIDENCE liKE C.E.R (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt. It must be tied back to thesis (how does it support your argument The response must describe the evidence and must use more than a phrase or reference. This additional piece of evidence must be different from the evidence used to earn the point for contextualization. INCLUDE A TOPIC SENTENCE!!! A clear argument based todic sentence for each body paragraph DOCUMENTS YOU WILL BE USING FOR THE ESSAY : Document 2 Source: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, 1845. If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey [a White overseer]... Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died, the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!... Long before daylight, I was called to... feed, the horses...Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope, and...he caught hold of my legs, and was about tying me... I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he holding to my legs, I was brought sprawling on the stable floor. Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment-from whence came the spirit I don't know I resolved to fight; and... I seized Covey hard by the throat; and as I did so, I rose. He held on to me, and I to him. My resistance was so entirely unexpected that Covey seemed taken all aback. He trembled like a leaf. This gave me assurance... This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning-point in my career as a slave. It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free... It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place. Document 1 A Source: Angelina Grimk, "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South," (1836) Let [the Christian women of the South] embody themselves in societies, and send petitions up to their different legislatures, entreating their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons, to abolish the institution of slavery; no longer to subject woman to the scourge and the chain, to mental darkness and moral degradation, no longer to tear husbands from their wives, and children from their parents; no longer to make men, women, and children work without wages; no longer to make their lives bitter in hard bondage, no longer to reduce American citizens to the abject condition of slaves, of "chattels personal"; no longer to barter the image of God in human shambles for corruptible things such as silver and gold. Document 4 Source: William Lloyd Garrison, The United States Constitution." 1852 "We charge.. that [the Constitution] was formed at the expense of human liberty, by a profligate surrender of principle, and to this hour is cemented with human blood... "To the argument that the words 'slaves' and 'slavery' are not to be found in the Constitution, and therefore that it was never intended to give any protection or countenance to the slave system, it is sufficient to reply, that though no such words are contained in the instrument, other words were used, intelligently and specifically, to meet the necessities of slavery... "Three millions of the American people are crushed under the American Union! They are held as slaves, trafficked as merchandise, registered as goods and chattels! The government gives them no protection-the government is their enemy, the government keeps them in chains!... The Union which grinds them to the dust rests upon us, and with them we will struggle to overthrow it! The Constitution which subjects them to hopeless bondage is one that we cannot swear to support. Our motto is 'No Union with Slaveholders'... We separate from them...to clear our skirts of innocent blood. and to hasten the downfall of slavery in America, and throughout the world!" Please help me ASAP :(