I wrote that the new conservatism favored a return to a more aggressive foreign policy.
I also wrote that the lady in Doc 4 (the one written to the governor Rockefeller) said she was working so hard but some other people (she called them the welfare cheats or someting like that) didn’t have to work as hard and could still get benefits.
Are these 2 interpretaions correct?
All I know is that it sucked that the DBQ was on the one era my teacher didn’t cover…
@Smittens Well, let’s say that I said they passed the Sugar Act after that since no one was following the Molasses Act, and my point was that Britain was less controlling before the war then after.
@michelle426 I wouldn’t worry about typos like that. It’s a hard word and you were close. It would have been worse if you said slutery neglate, sanitary negligence, statutory neglect, or solitary neglect. (Source: http://afternoonsnoozebutton.com/post/24952002872/oh-my-god-so-my-moms-friends-with-an-ap-grader)
Alright APUSH down. Time for gov next week 
@appest3 yes
is was wrong to crtique nixon’s foreign policy about vietnam and detente wasnt it. I said that the new conservatives were unhappy about the Vietnam debacle and built up the military to prevent that again and they took a firmer role on trying to combat communism unlike Nixon who tried to ease it.
@Smittens YEP SAME
ddin;t mention great society, wish I had, but I should still get points for mentioning Carter’s stuff, stagflation, iran hostage crisis, counterculture
@michelle426 oh no i actually did mention salutary neglect in my essay. but i was referring specifically to the point for synthesis? i’ve never really been too good at it so i was wondering lol.
salutary neglect wasn’t the main point, I mentioned it, but it happened before the war too.
I said that British economic motives of turning a profit off the colonies remained the same, but the American views towards the british changed as a result of the stamp act etc.
or end of salutary neglect, my bad
hmm i didn’t mention any specific acts, just talked about the taxes placed upon the colonies. would i lose points for not being specific enough?
and i talked about how salutary neglect ended in part because of britain’s war debt following the war.
I’m filling one of those “AP Ambiguous Question” reports for a few of the mutltiple choice questions. Some of those cross-chronological ones were far too open to interpretation, and I felt as though some other questions had two possibly correct answers. Without getting into specific questions, I encourage those who took the exam (Form O) to look up “Mestizos / Mulatos” and “Casta system.”
The short- and free-response were very easy though. I don’t know why everyone is so upset with the final “pre-1492” question. It was testing inference skills more than anything else.
@1golfer1 I completely agree. With the exception of 2-3 “ambiguous” multiple choice questions, I think I did really well.
@1golfer1 strongly agree about caste and the different ethnicities. In my opinion at least both clearly would have worked and it was a random guess from there, even though I knew the information
Overall, I really like the new format. My teacher just told us to study the curriculum framework- which I did, and I think I am on board to getting a five. Then again, I am involved with an academic Social Studies team so I had some outside info to bank on.
@Upennpls16 I would not be surprised at all if several of the questions were thrown out. I few of them, I will admit, were clever; you had to look at it the right way or really think about the underlying issue to make the connection. But too many of them reminded me of the Bill Clinton / Ronald Reagan question on the College Board released exam. (I still don’t buy the explanation for that one)
@cooldude1098 Let’s not discuss specific questions. But I will say I am contesting that question. I thought about it for a while and eventually determined that at least three of the choices could have been correct, depending on interpretation. If you have any questions that you thought were ambiguous, make sure you fill this out:
https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap-student/pdf/AP_ExamQuestionAmbiguityErrorForm_WEB.pdf
Currently I’m arguing three questions: The last question (question #55), the one I alluded to in post #567, and the one cooldude1098 alluded to in post #599. I might add one or two others.
@cooldude1098 oh yeah I think I said women abolitionists because of Sojourner Truth (“Ain’t I A Woman?”) and women saying that their voices deserved to be a part of the conversation. but it also could have been flappers since they were breaking the norms. what did other people say?
i remember having a bit of trouble with the anne hutchinson excerpt, but i’m fairly sure i got the questions pertaining to it correct