<p>sarorah and xgreenmachinex, actually the Know Nothing Party was in response to the Old Immigrants. It rose up in the 1840's and 1850's in response to the Irish and German Immigrants but died down because the slavery issue was bigger. I remember being surprised reading that because I thought it was later but when I did my practice essay on immigrants for the 2001 test I specifically put them in my intro as background for the old immigrants. I'm impressed with all the info you had though, mine didn't include that much mostly because i had only 15 minutes to write it.</p>
<p>xgreenmachinex, no problem, just had to make sure that fact was correct</p>
<p>For #2 since no one has done that yet, I mainly said that Massachusetts was based on small towns, small farms, a communal religion leading to small town meetings and politics based on religion since they had the most power while Virginia was more large farms, elite wealthy planters having the most power in the House of Burgesses (if you didn't mention that, i think you're screwed;)). Overall similarities for coming from england with the Parliament/basic Protestant religion although i mostly just talked about that in my intro so i hope they dont take points from that. There weren't a lot of facts for this, just descriptives of how the different communities lived and how they were different. Mentioned Roger Williams/Anne Hutchinson, Pilgrims/Puritans, the joint stock companies, tobacco, families vs mostly men, religious freedom vs economic gain. Most of my stuff was earlier although the trends stayed in the later periods so I'm not sure how they're grade it. I think its at least a 5, hopefully more. And of course my trademark of no intro b/c of those @#$ time limits.</p>
<p>Okay..well, I still think I did a bad job because it wasn't even long, and according to ohnoes from a different board:
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Don't be fooled by the curve. It's quite hard to get a 6-9 on the DBQ and essays, and the FRQ as well. Only 11% of test takers get a 5.
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So I'm still worried.
I did Essay #2 also. Probably really bad. Okay so the general idea is that politicis in Massachusetts was more orderly than in Virginia. Why? Well you had Pilgrims coming to Massachusetts for religious reasons..and they early on developed the Mayflower Compact which was a bind of the people to the will of the majority basically. You had centered town meetings, in the church houses. In VA, you had the House of Burgesses in 1619, but this wasn't that good because the King at the time wanted to get rid of it, right?
I'm sure I included other stuff but this wasn't a good essay of mine either.</p>
<p>saroah - I really wouldn't worry, if I were you. I'm pretty confident about my 4 Essay and you seem to included a lot of the same things I did. If you were able to skillfully incorporate all of those details with a good thesis you should probably score above a 6 on that essay.</p>
<p>Was government more orderly? I didn't talk about that at all! I mainly just discussed how the Puritans didn't like dissent, and were a lot more religiously-focused than the Virginians, because the two groups had different motives when founding the colonies.</p>
<p>And I didn't mention the Pilgrims, even though I had them written on the sheet, because I couldn't remember the name of the Mayflower Compact. (I also forgot John Winthrop's name until my conclusion, where I sort of just squeezed it in)</p>
<p><em>edit</em> I meant the government of MA in comparison to VA</p>
<p>Yeah I guess we can only hope. I feel so un-confident despite being on College CONFIDENTial. Why does this site make so many people feel less confident and probably stupid when they come here? It's ironic. lol</p>
<p>I can totally say that I messed up on 2... I didn't even mention the Mayflower Compact, I was drawing a blank. I didn't mention Virginia House of Burgesses either, I remembered it, but I wasn't sure if that was the right name. Man... I'm totally screwed</p>
<p>Okay, now I really feel like the only one who did immigration from 1965-2000. Please, someone else tell me they did this so I don't feel so alone. (I know I put down lots of good info for it though, I guess a lot of people didn't get up to it yet.)</p>
<p>eponymous, I doubt you were the only one but I don't think there were too many. Mostly because the old immigrants versus new immigrants is covered so much while immigration after that is barely covered at all. When I read the question I was just like, you mean there was immigration after WWII? And all I could think of was Elian Gonzalez and the whole illegal immigration thing so I ignored it. On the plus side, the graders may like reading about something different and so give you bonus points for that.</p>
<p>Yup, did 2 and 5... I know absolutely nothing about immigration patterns, and I didn't really feel like remembering the Mexican War. I'm much better on colonial history, I'm pretty confident in my essay for #2. #5 I ended up rushing in about 25 mins, and my hand was so cramped and hurting by the end of it that I didn't really write a conclusion, heh. =)</p>
<p>i did 2 and 4....
man i definetely BOMBED 2- mine was full of general statements and i totally forgot about that house of burgess crap.</p>
<p>4- totally rocked it: mentioned the new immigrants and the competion for jobs, resentment, etc. the other wave i did was the 1965-2000, i talked about mexican immigrants and how there is also racism and resentment towards them as there was towards the eastern european immigrants 80 years ago.</p>