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I was expecting more on the exam. I thought the DBQ was medium, it could have been a lot worse and I would have had to make stuff up, but I was surprised how much I knew. It was a weird question, and had a lot more requirements than any practice DBQ's we wrote in class...I also chose essays 2 & 5, because they were the only ones I could think of something to write about. Technically, its been 48 hours, so I can say more. Question 2 on the British Imperialism was Ok, I basically threw random facts left and right on the paper because I didn't know what they wanted. Question 5 was harder, not the question but thinking answers to back it up. I ended up talking about Japanese Concentration Camps and African American's attempts for Civil Rights and equal opportunity.

The multiple choice was OK, but it was harder than the practice tests I took. It seemed to be really easy for the first 50 questions and then it got really hard.

Was it just me?

I wrote down the time frames of the DBQs since 2003 looking for gaps. From looking at the gaps I think the essay could either be on the industrial revolution, roots of the american revolution, the civil war, or the 1950s. What do you think the essay is going to be on?

Although real-life Rosie the Riveters took on male dominated trades during World War II, women were expected to return to their everyday housework once men returned from the war. Government campaigns targeting women were addressed solely at housewives, perhaps because already employed women would move to the higher-paid "essential" jobs on their own.[6] Propaganda was also directed at their husbands, many of whom were unwilling to support such jobs.[7] Most women opted to do this. Later many women returned to traditional work such as clerical or administration positions. However, some of these women continued working in the factories.

The individual who was the inspiration for the song was Rosalind P. Walter, who "came from old money and worked on the night shift building the F4U Corsair fighter." Later in life Walter was a philanthropist, a board member of the WNET public television station in New York and an early and long-time supporter of the Charlie Rose interview show.[4][8]

Man and woman riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 aircraft at the plant of North American Aviation. Office of War Information photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1942.

Rosie the Riveter became most closely associated with another real woman, Rose Will Monroe, who was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky[9][10][11] in 1920 and moved to Michigan during World War II. She worked as a riveter at the Willow Run Aircraft Factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan, building B-29 and B-24 bombers for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Monroe achieved her dream of piloting a plane when she was in her 50's and her love of flying resulted in an accident that contributed to her death 19 years later.[4] Monroe was asked to star in a promotional film about the war effort at home. The song "Rosie the Riveter" was popular at the time,[2] and Monroe happened to best fit the description of the worker depicted in the song.[12] Rosie went on to become perhaps the most widely recognized icon of that era. The films and posters she appeared in were used to encourage women to go to work in support of the war effort.

According to the Encyclopedia of American Economic History, "Rosie the Riveter" inspired a social movement that increased the number of working American women to 20 million by 1944, a 57% increase from 1940.[citation needed] Although the image of "Rosie the Riveter" reflected the industrial work of welders and riveters during World War II, the majority of working women filled non-factory positions in every sector of the economy. What unified the experiences of these women was that they proved to themselves (and the country) that they could do a "man's job" and could do it well.[13] In 1942, just between the months of January and July, the estimates of the proportion of jobs that