<p>can somebody give like a tiny clue on what FRQ 3 was about? i forgot what it was about.</p>
<p>are we allowed to talk about it now that it’s sunday?</p>
<p>The Civil War essay was a blessing. Since the UIL theme this year was the Civil War I wrote my butt off.
Three Pages FRONT AND BACK. Sorry to brag. I just want some glory before I perform epically horrible the AP biology exam on monday.</p>
<p>I suppose we’re technically allowed to talk about it now 
what I found funny was that the night before, I was on CC and reading the thread about predicting topics for the test. after reading that thread, I reviewed slavery and progressives a bit more…lo and behold.</p>
<p>after taking three tests that first week, I haven’t studied since thursday night for chem and english. ooooooh well :)</p>
<p>XsCaffeine - I’m taking the AP Bio exam on Monday too!</p>
<p>Crossing my fingers that it’ll be okay…</p>
<p>Would this get me a 3?</p>
<p>approx. 50ish well answered
approx. 15 educated guess (about 50-70% right I would say)
approx. 15 blank</p>
<p>DBQ- I think that I really answered the question well and focused on it the entire time, but I guess some of my outside info and document analysis was lacking.
FRQ - garbage</p>
<p>How much space was everyone left with for the FRQs/DBQs? I write kind of big, but I think I had about 1 front/back left at the end. </p>
<p>p.s. for DBQs, my teacher has always told us to reference the author of a document only by their name. However, I often didn’t even do that and just alluded to which it was, without any (doc A) or anything; basically, I just took the knowledge from the source and used it without citing it. Is that sufficient?</p>
<p>@somestudent2:
My DBQ was about 4 pages, and the other two were about 3 pages, which is about the norm from what I understand. I had about 2 minutes left when I was done writing, so I really used all of my time. Also, I was taught to always cite the document, but I’m not sure if your method will alone suffice.</p>
<p>@Marcopchen: number 3 was basically about women in the progressive era(1880 to 1920) and how they contributed to political, working conditions, and something else. I only remember the two I wrote about. lol. Technically, it’s Sunday and we can talk about it.</p>
<p>So what did you guys put down for #2?</p>
<p>ehhh…the multiple choice was harder than the 4 practice ones i’d taken! i only left one blank, but i had it down to two choices and made an educated guess on at least 10-15. but i think i did well on the essays (: who else did 3 and 5?</p>
<p>ps. are the apush essay graders like impossible? or reasonable?</p>
<p>Considering the fact that I never learned a thing about puritans, i think i knocked the dbq out of the park.</p>
<p>hopefully thats the case cuz i did 3 & 5 but i didnt like either and both were pure bs. </p>
<p>multiple choice was ok. prolly got a 50 or so out of 80…dont know how good that is though</p>
<p>It has been 48 hrs, we can discuss in detail now yay haha</p>
<p>puritans:
I was screwed. I talked about how the church provided the main foundation for personal lives, education, politics, economics, etc. Outside sources included how I elaborated on the Roger Morris document with more information I knew about him, City on a Hill, the idea of piouty, literacy, Camus philosophy, The Crucible, Scarlet Letter. So all in all, I am predicting a 5/6. </p>
<p>Revol War:
Ok this I bombed 
I completely blanked on specific doctrine/battles/etc. I talked about philosophy, the mail delivery routes, Paul Revere’s ride (<strong><em>?!), the Sons of Liberty/Daughters of the American Revolution, Olive Branch petition (again…</em></strong>?), Ben Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, King George, a couple battles, guerilla war fare, propoganda…I am predicting a 4…UGH</p>
<p>Immig/Suburb- I did a little better. Talked about immigration movements, the hippie counter culture as a rejection to suburbinization and the consumerism of the time, Schlesinger (he mentioned both a couple times in his book), the emergence of suburb tv, later movements of minorities, women, gay rights as a result of it in the culture, George Kennen, etc. I went a little overboard and probaly off topic So…5?</p>
<p>Idk, I feel like I’m gonna end up with a 3/4 and not the 5 I want so badly. UGH</p>
<p>which number was about expansion of slavery?</p>
<p>@marcopchen: The one about the expansion of slavery was question 3 on Part B.</p>
<p>Fun fun. MC was harder than any practice test I took. I averaged in the 70’s on the practice tests I took so I’ll settle for mid to high 60’s.</p>
<p>The DBQ had no facts to use at all. I BSed 6 pages of writing out of it, and I used every document, some twice, so I’m hoping that;s good enough. I actually think I did really well on it all things considered. I was afraid to use The Scarlett Letter since it was out of Time Period, so I left it out. Almost used Salem With Trials but thankfully I remembered it was 1690’s and left it out.</p>
<p>FRQ #3 was actually the easiest question I could ever imagine. Mexican American War, debate in congress, Spot Resolution, sectionalism, Wilmot Proviso, Gag Rule, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, Lawrence and Topeaka, etc. EASY. I wrote 5 pages and if I had more time could have written twice that easily.</p>
<p>FRQ # 5 I think I did a bit differently than most and I hope it worked out. I didn’t have a lot of time since I ran 5ish minutes over on the DBQ. I said how the cheap and mass production of cars coupled with the boom after the depression led to a lot of people buying cars and moving out of the cities and commuting to work. Eisenhower’s Highway Act, that kind of stuff. Then due to that the cities lost Tax money. Then, when Asians and Latinos escaping communist and dictator rulerships came to America peniless they moved into those vacated cities, making them poorer and turning them into slums. Then as a result, LBJ’s Great Society dealt with cities and stuff. HEadstart Program, Social Security Housing, Medicare and Medicade, School Vouchers that stuff. Then I said in the 80’s Reganomics depleted the Social Security funds leading these cities to become even worse and poorer.</p>
<p>I BSed most of it but it turns out that after checking it was true…</p>
<p>I really think I got a 5. Here’s hoping.</p>
<p>Wow, how did you guys write so much? All of my essays were two pages, and I finished with no time to spare.</p>
<p>These are basic summaries and obviously not everything I wrote. I wrote four pages for the DBQ, three for essay #2, and four for essay #5, but I have small handwriting.</p>
<p>For the DBQ, some Puritan values I mentioned were independence, frugality, industry, faith, and community. I know that the first and the last contradict each other, but I clarified in my essay. However, I feel like I was making up values, haha.</p>
<p>For FRQ #2 (Revolution), for politics, my thesis was that colonial interdependence helped defeat Britain. I included the Albany Plan (out of time, but it set the precedent for the colonies banding together), the Committees of Correspondence, the Continental Congress, etc. For diplomacy, I mentioned the Olive Branch Petition (the colonies knew that they now had no choice but to go all out) and the Franco-American Treaty of 1778, among others. For military, I highlighted both American strengths (ragtag fighting, home field advantage, French help, Baron von Steuben, fighting for a common cause) and British weaknesses (difficulty of shipping supplies, heavy equipment, not used to the American terrain).</p>
<p>For FRQ #5, I picked suburbanization and the Sun Belt movement. Suburbanization was easy enough - it stemmed back to the freedom of the slaves and the Great Migration, which caused differentiated and de facto segregated communities. With postwar prosperity and an increasing amount of children (baby boom), middle- and upper-class families wanted to live safely. Consequences included redlining and gerrymandering. The Sun Belt movement, I attributed to the fact that the 1970s generation was the first to have grown up with Social Security and thus had lots of money for retirement. Combined with the welcoming climate and relative isolation of the area, many people found it welcoming. Young people also came down to the Sun Belt for more job opportunities. Consequences include a dramatically shifting center of politics in the United States (there’s a much heavier influence on the South now) and much greater Latin American immigration. Finally, in my conclusion, I tied both migrations back to the American dream.</p>
<p>I found the multiple choice to be harder than expected (there were 15 ridiculous questions, but I was able to make educated guesses on most). I skipped three.</p>
<p>^^honestly i have no clue how some people managed to write 15 pages. I had two essays that were 2.5 pages and one essay that was just 2.</p>
<p>Puritan DBQ: eh it was alright. I used all of the documents, but i’m not sure that i used all of them as well as I could have. I talked about the mayflower compact giving rise to constitution and democracy. I talked about the combination of church and state and how everything even the town was centered around the church. I talked about how those who weren’t purtians were considered second class citizens and could not vote, which gave rise to the denying people sufferage. Also, indians were considered heathens, puritan work ethic, city upon a hill, irony of the fact that they fled religious persecution only to be religiously intolerant themselves etc.</p>
<h1>2 Revolutionary war: Political- talked about strong leadership in the colonies, and about how the colonists were united in their fight against England’s tyranny in contrast to how the people in England weren’t really into the war because it was expensive. Diplomatic- England had pretty much alienated the other european super powers so france and other countries helped the colonists especially the french lending their navy and the Prussian general who helped Washington’s troops. Military- new tactics like aiming for the british officers instead of the lower rank men, the use of the bayonet, colonial invention of the grooved bullet for better accuracy, home field advantage, killed Native Americans who were helping the British navigate, spies, etc.</h1>
<h1>4 Reform- wrote about social reform (healthcare for mentally ill, prohibition, sanitation)</h1>
<p>labor reform (child labor, women working for the first time, shirtwaist factory fire-led to safety standards)</p>