<p>I also pulled in the Missouri Compromise and the Second Great Awakening.</p>
<p>I wrote about the Monroe Doctrine, the Adams-Onis Treaty, the Rush-Bagot Agreement, Pickney’s Tready, Jay’s Treaty, the XYZ affair, the Quasi-War with France, impressment, the War of 1812, the Treaty of Ghent, the beginnings of Manifest Destiny, the Louisiana Purchase, Loose construction, and Jefferson’s agrarian republicanism for FR part B. I confused the Adams-Onis Treaty with Pickney’s Treaty though, so I think I got an 8 instead of a 9.</p>
<p>I think the FRQ was around 1789-1823. it would’ve been a lot better if it really was about the age of imperialism haha, it was tough to recall a lot of events. but i did mention the war of 1812, proclamation of neutrality, the tripolitan wars, xyz affair, rush-bagot treaty, jay treaty, louisiana purchase and the adams-onis treaty. you could’ve also mentioned the embargo acts and the alien and sedition acts too! </p>
<p>for the DBQ, i accidentally included a lot of events out of the time period, grr…what exactly was the time period, anyway? i don’t remember seeing one; wasn’t it just before 1861? because a lot of my events took place during the 1850’s…yikes!</p>
<p>@Purplepigeon I think you’re fine because I talked about the Compromise of 1850 and how slavery affected sectionalism and all that jazz.</p>
<p>@The84thline Pinckney’s Treaty gave Florida to the U.S. from Spain, right?</p>
<p>Oh and yeah I also pulled from Second Great Awakening because Harriet Beecher Stowe’s dad was Lyman Beecher (Second Great Awakening Preacher).</p>
<p>It sounds like we are all on the right track!</p>
<p>@jackechan No, that was the Adams-Onis Treaty. Pinckney’s Treaty settled the US-Canadian border. How severe do you all think the penalty for confusing them will be? A point possibly?
Also, I (deridingly) referenced The History’s Channels Ancient Aliens series to explain why Europeans stopped colonizing the Western Hempishere after the Monroe Doctrine was issued.xD</p>
<p>if I talked about the dred scott case and bleeding kansas in one body paragraph, how bad would it affect my grade? i did have some other outside info though… if I was going to get a 7, 8, or 9 what would it now be?</p>
<p>Pinckney’s Treaty was not the US Canadian border, I think it’s when Spain was like “oh hey guys you can use the Mississippi River now”</p>
<p>@The84thline Rush-Bagot is what you’re thinking of for the Canadian border. Pinckney’s was Mississippi River/Florida</p>
<p>Going into the test, I really had no idea how to write a DBQ, so I treated it like a Synthesis essay and felt REALLY good about it because I know it was well written and covered the bases. But now after talking to other people and reading things on here, I feel like I messed up pretty bad. The documents kinda did control my essay. I still had some outside information and I talked about how the factors I wrote about affected the future, but the factors I discussed were more of what I got from the documents and not my own. Do you think I have any chance at getting like a 6 or a 7? Also, I only used 6 documents (2 in each paragraph) if that helps…</p>
<p>I did questions 3 and 5 on the FRQs. For 3 I talked about the French Revolution and the War of 1812, and, unable to really think about anything else, I threw in a short, mediocre paragraph about the Barbary Coast pirates. I think my essay was decent overall, but I’m unfamiliar with the rubric and don’t really know what to expect. What does a decent thesis and decent explanations get you? The general consensus in my class seemed to be that you have to mess up really bad to get lower than a 5, but now I’m not so sure. Also, I know I messed up question 5 because I talked about women protesting to obtain voting rights… little did I know the 19th Amendment was passed like 20 years prior, lol. My paragraph about African American protests was pretty good, though. Are you pretty much guaranteed a 4 or lower if you screw up a major fact, or can a good paragraph bring you to the 5 range? </p>
<p>Tooling around with AP Pass, it seems almost unrealistically easy to get a 5. I put in a 50/80 and a 6 for the DBQ and a 6 and 5 for FRQs and I still came out with a 5…</p>
<p>You had a 3 paragraph dbq? If so I would worry, because if it was that short you missed a lot of events and analysis</p>
<p>^Yeah… because you’re suppose to cite documents in the intro and conclusion</p>
<p>Anyone think the curve is going to be harsh? Or is the one on ap pass website accurate</p>
<p>It’s published by the collegeboard. The grade should be fairly accurate.</p>
<p>AP Pass uses the curves from the most recently released Collegeboard exam. The one that they are using currently is from the 2006 exam, and the lower boundary for a 5 is 111/180 points, or 61.66% correct. The other APUSH exam released by Collegeboard, from 2001, has a slightly harsher curve: 119/180, or 66.11% correct. </p>
<p>I doubt the curve for any exam is much harsher than the 2001 exam or much more lenient than the 2006 exam.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the CCers who recommended Essential Content. It really lived up to its name. Confident I scored a 5!</p>
<p>For FRQ Q3, I talked about U.S involvement in the War of 1812, “republican motherhood,” and Hamilton’s economic plan as factors that guided the U.S in world affairs. I used a lot of outside information and I feel like I wrote a 5/6. Not sure though because I haven’t seen anyone else talk about two of my three factors and it’s a bit worrying lol. Anyone care to chime in?</p>
<p>Well, how did you tie republican motherhood and Hamilton’s economic plan to foreign policy?</p>
<p>I said that values of patriotism and democracy were the foundation for “republican motherhood,” so such values would guide the US in its dealings with other countries/how it tried to establish itself in the world view. . . and for Hamilton, I basically said strong economy=competitive with other nations/becoming a “force to be reckoned with” so to speak. . . yeah I guess I used topics that pertained more to how the early republic wanted to establish itself in relation to other countries. Is that still pertinent to the prompt though?</p>
<p>No…</p>
<p>same here acbyrne!!! Essential content rules!!!</p>