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<p>What did you guys put as the puritanical influence? I devoted a parapragh (I had more than 5 paragraphs) talking about the Mayflower Compact and how they gave rise to the modern democracy... the more I think about it, the more I think the Puritans were not involved in it... Am I screwed?</p>

<p>I also mentioned:</p>

<p>-they wanted to be the model of the world, the "city atop a hill"</p>

<p>-I mentioned Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and their persecution</p>

<p>-how their whole life consisted of purely work, no fun whatsoever</p>

<p>-they promoted education and established colleges like Harvard College</p>

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<li>Some other things</li>
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<p>What'd you guys say their influence was? And did the Puritans have any relation with the Compact?</p>

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<p>Ninja EDIT: I just noticed I spelled "Passed" with "Past" hah. I'm aware for those Grammar Nazis out there.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t be so eager yet. AP Central hasn’t uploaded the exam for APUSH online.</p>

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<p>I did three groups: Econ, Polit, & Soc. All of the docs were sort of overlapping, I just sort of tied it all in with the religious theme. My DBQ was sort of out there but I have no idea what the flow was like since I didn’t have the energy to read it through again.</p>

<p>The FRQ were ok, though I made a pretty big blunder. I wrote about the influx of mexican immigration, even though that might have been just TOTALLY irrelevant, I don’t know.</p>

<p>I feel 60% confident about this exam, up from 20% last year in Euro.</p>

<p>@Azn, the embargo is lifted after 48 hours.</p>

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<p>^^It has to be 48 hours after Hawaii took it or something? Or are we good to talk about it?</p>

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<p>My outside info was, more or less:</p>

<p>-John Winthrop founder
-Emigrated to America because of economic recession and political and religious oppression
-“City upon a hill” ideal christian society
-Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
-Salem Witch Trials (out of time period but I brought it in anyway)
-Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson persecution
-Roger Williams subsequently founded Rhode Island
-Puritans believed in individual effort and doing things for yourself, not necessarily for your landlord (idea they brought from Europe)
-Central village, individuals homes surrounded by farms (I knew this but it was also implied in one of the documents, so I’m not sure if this counts)
-Did not tolerate religious dissent, strict punishment…demonstrated in Scarlet Letter
-Halfway Covenant
-Believed Indians to be heathen
-Political integration of church and state, led by ministers
-Believed in education, especially of the ministry
-^ led to founding of Harvard and Yale</p>

<p>and maybe a little more that I can’t remember… if it was well written, is this enough for a 7?</p>

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<p>I put the Pilgrims/Mayflower into my intro just to show how they thought that political power was not only derived from god, but from the people.</p>

<p>That tied into my thesis, which was something like:</p>

<p>Although the Puritan values could not stifle man’s innate desire for economic individualism and freedom, these religious ideologies ultimately restricted political and social liberties throughout the New England colonies due to leaders’ reluctance to relinquish their great power and international respect derived from religious dominance and oppression.</p>

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<p>And then I talked about how education was generally brainwashing people into keeping these religious ideas through the colonies.</p>

<p>And then how in the last document (where the man argued the colonies were for religion and not commerce), I said he was afraid of the economic growth of the common man).</p>

<p>And then in my conclusion I said how ultimately religion could never squash commerce… even after the First and Second Great Awakenings, the market and industrial revolutions still prevailed for the Northeast.</p>

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<p>@santeria</p>

<p>Salem Witch Trials was out of the time period. I wrote about it too though :(</p>

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<p>But I tied it in and wrote that their ideals led to the Salem Witch Trials, which I think is fine</p>

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Salem Witch Trials & Hawthorne’s *The Scarlet Letter * are out of the time period. Most of that OI is already implied in the documents lol.</p>

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<p>Obviously The Scarlet Letter was written out of time period, the subject of the book isn’t though</p>

<p>and this question bothered me a little bit- they asked what was the most significant impact of the Missouri Compromise was. One of the answer choices was that it banned slavery in the Northwest Territory and another was that it maintained the balance of slavery in the states. Didn’t it do both?</p>

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<p>No actually the Northwest territory refers to the territory in the NW ordinance that is around Lake Michigan.</p>

<p>So that was under the Articles of Confederation, and the answer was the balance of slavery.</p>

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<p>Ok good. I put the balance of slavery. But didn’t the 36 30 line imply the banning of slavery in the NW territory?</p>

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<p>Wasn’t Document A talking about how they were all united as one people or something like that? That’s what it seemed like to me…</p>

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<p>Of course you could argue that, but I argued that it showed Winthrop’s desire for his own international acclaim. When he mentioned that the whole world was watching them or something.</p>

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<p>Ya I wrote about the Salem Witch Trials as well… More like wrote a reference to it in the last paragraph, about how problems in the Puritan Colony led to the Trials.</p>

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<p>Wait so was the Mayflower Compact a good outside information? I said there were Puritans in the Mayflower…</p>

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<p>My outside info (just from the other guy’s list):</p>

<p>-John Winthrop founder
-Emigrated to America because of economic recession and political and religious oppression
-“City upon a hill” ideal christian society
-Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson persecution
-Roger Williams subsequently founded Rhode Island
-Central village, individuals homes surrounded by farms (I knew this but it was also implied in one of the documents, so I’m not sure if this counts)
-Did not tolerate religious dissent, strict punishment…demonstrated in Scarlet Letter
-Believed Indians to be heathen
-Political integration of church and state, led by ministers
-Believed in education, especially of the ministry</p>

<p>I wanted to do Halfway Covenant too but it just slipped my mind and I was too lazy to go back & add it in. How screwed am I if I didn’t really follow the political/social/economical structure? In fact, I didn’t really mention much of economics at all.</p>

<p>First body paragraph was about how family was the center of everything (immigrated in families, treated everyone like brothers & sisters, etc.)
Second body paragraph, Church is (literally and figuratively) center of town life
Third body paragraph, God rules over the Church, therefore God rules all
Fourth body paragraph, Dissidents who rejected these concepts weren’t allowed</p>

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<p>^^ I think the Mayflower Compact is a great piece of outside information especially if you tied it to the future of the colonies.</p>

<p>^honestly, i don’t think that there was much economics to cover at all except the puritan work ethic. As long as you covered politics, society, and economics, i don’t think your organization necessarily matters.</p>

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<p>I ended up working in a lot of references to how the Puritans treated the Indians, with some anachronistic stuff about King Philip’s War. Whoops.</p>