Transcript Section I

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Section I - Part A: Multiple Choice | 50-55 Questions | 55 Minutes | 40% of
Exam Score
Questions appear in sets of 2-5.
Students analyze historical texts, interpretations, and evidence.
Primary and secondary sources, images, graphs, and maps are included.
Section I - Part B: Short Answer | 4 Questions | 45 Minutes | 20% of Exam
Score
Questions provide opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know
best.
Some questions include texts, images, graphs, or maps.
Section II - Part A: Document Based | 1 Question | 60 Minutes | 25% of
Exam Score
Analyze and synthesize historical data.
Assess written, quantitative, or visual materials as historical evidence.
Section II - Part B: Long Essay | 1 Question | 35 Minutes | 15% of Exam
Score
Students select one question among two.
Explain and analyze significant issues in U.S. history.
Develop an argument supported by an analysis of historical evidence.
Skill Type
Historical Thinking Skill
I. Chronological Reasoning
1. Historical Causation
2. Patterns of Continuity and
Change over Time
3. Periodization
II. Comparison and
Contextualization
4. Comparison
5. Contextualization
III. Crafting Historical Arguments
from Historical Evidence
6. Historical Argumentation
7. Appropriate Use of Relevant
Historical Evidence
IV. Historical Interpretation and
Synthesis
8. Interpretation
9. Synthesis
Themes
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Identity
Work, exchange, and technology
Peopling
Politics and power
America in the world
Environment and geography — physical and human
Ideas, beliefs, and culture
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Date Range
Approximate Percentage of …
AP Exam
1491–1607
1607–1754
1754–1800
1800–1848
1844–1877
1865–1898
1890–1945
1945–1980
5%
1980–present
5%
45%
45%
• PERIOD 1: 1491–1607
• On a North American continent
controlled by American Indians,
contact among the peoples of Europe,
the Americas, and West Africa created
a new world.
• PERIOD 2: 1607–1754
• Europeans and American Indians
maneuvered and fought for dominance,
control, and security in North America,
and distinctive colonial and native
societies emerged.
Recent DBQ Topics
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1999: Pre-Revolution Identity
2000: Labor Unions 1877-1900
2001: Ike and Cold War Fears
2002: Antebellum Reform
(B: Era of Good Feelings
2003:New Deal
(B: Progressive Reform
2004: French and Indian War (B: Interwar Foreign Policy
2005: AR Revolutionary?
(B: Causes Civil War
2006: Women Post-AR (B: Begin Cold War
2007: Farmers 19th
(B: Johnson and Great Society
2008: Vietnam
(B: Immigration
2009: Revolutionary + EAR Slavery (B: Blacks +CW+RR
2010: Puritanism
(B: Antebellum Western Expansion
2011: Nixon
(B: Antebellum politics
2012: Post-CW rise of Corporations
2013: Anti-slavery 1776-1852
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Analyze the cultural and economic responses
of TWO of the following groups to the Indians
of North America before 1750.
British French
Spanish (00)
Compare the ways in which 2 of the following
reflected tensions in colonial society:
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
Pueblo Revolt (1680)
Salem witchcraft trials (1692)
Stono Rebellion (1739) (03B)
• Compare and contrast the ways in which
economic development affected politics in
Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from
1607 to 1750. (2006)
• Compare the ways in which religion shaped the
development of colonial society (to 1740) in
TWO of the following regions:
– New England
– Chesapeake
– Middle Atlantic (2002)
• Evaluate the relative importance of the following
as factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776:
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Parliamentary taxation
British military measures
Restriction of civil liberties
The legacy of colonial religious and political ideas
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• To what extent had the colonists developed a
sense of their identity and unity as Americans by
the eve of the Revolution. (1999 DBQ: 17501776)
• Evaluate the extent to which the Articles of
Confederation were effective in solving the
problems that confronted the new nation (2003)
• Although the power of the national government
increased during the Early Republic, this
development often faced serious opposition.
Compare the motives and effectiveness of those
opposed to the growing power of the national
government in TWO of the following:
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Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 1798-99
Hartford Convention, 1814-1815
Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833
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• Historians have traditionally labeled the
period after the War of 1812 the “Era of
Good Feelings.” Evaluate the accuracy of
this label, considering the emergence of
nationalism and sectionalism. (02)
• “Reform movements in the United States
sought to expand democratic ideals.”
Assess the validity of this statement with
specific reference to the years 1825-1860.
(2002)
• In what ways did developments in
transportation bring about economic and
social change in the United States in the
period 1820 to 1860? (2003)
• In what ways and to what extent was
industrial development from 1800 to 1860
a factor in the relationship between the
northern and southern states? (2006B)