<p>If you had already graduated from COLLEGE, why would it matter?</p>
<p>Snowpuff- I am in the exact same frame of mind. Everyone is saying that the MC was super easy, and I must admit - those questions kicked my butt more than I expected them to.
DBQ - Unexpected topic, but I’m not complaining (too much). I relied wayy too much on the documents and couldn’t really tie in economics. But it was better than some other topics they could have chosen.
FRQ #3 - My absolute favorite. But knowing me, I probably misinterpreted or messed up my thesis. There is always something.
FRQ #5 - Pure hate. I’m expecting 2-4 on this one. I chose to write about suburban growth and immigration. Suburbia went well enough. I completely shot myself in the foot with immigration. “During this period, the country was still under the quota acts of the 1920s and nativists sentiments were rising.” WRONG. Immigration restrictions were actually lifted. I wanted to cry afterward.
So much for aiming for a 5, I’d be lucky to get 4. Sadly, I felt like I was actually prepared for this test. HA!</p>
<p>Collegeboard is intimidating - but I really don’t see what they can do to you after you have your degree. Unless the controversy causes you your job? But then again, I don’t see why they would make the effort… unless you make a business out of selling previous APUSH questions. Who can remember MC a decade later, though?</p>
<p>I thought the MC was significantly harder than on practice tests I’d done… idk.</p>
<p>DBQ: Pretty good but for economics I only found one doc and it didn’t even say much. I kinda BSed that part, lol.
FRQ #3: wahhhhh everyone thought this one was easy but for me I hardly had a thesis. I was just like spitting out facts.I knew a lot but I couldn’t tie it together. My thesis was like, Controversy about different compromises led to the Civil War because the compromises were… controversial. : P
FRQ #5: This one was really fun, actually. I loved writing about suburbanization. Sunbelt not so much. I was just like, um, people moved there b/c it was warm and they wanted to retire. Which completely explains why people didn’t move there BEFORE the time period.</p>
<p>My teacher/prep books etc. said they don’t test military history. And yet, FRQ #2 asked specifically about how the US was able to succeed militarily! Plus, I thought collegeboard itself said it doesn’t ask any essay questions after 1975. But FRQ #5 asked you to consider the time period 1945-1985!!!</p>
<p>Did that bug anyone else???</p>
<p>guys its bothering me!! the one and only question (which was a MC) that i just really didnt know. 
im not going to give away all the details…but lets see who remembers:
what style of art was that can?</p>
<p>For the DBQ, I haven’t seen anyone post that they actually put down something factual and worthwhile for the “economic section.” Does anyone have any information at ALL related to it? It seems like the documents barely addressed it.</p>
<p>and i feel that the MC was actually easier than the PTs!
the PTs MC was like sooo specific
yet the test was more general</p>
<p>The type of art was three letters long, and a palindrome.
(Don’t want to give away too much!)</p>
<p>^about the DBQ…i remember the last document (or close to last) said that the colony was not established for money but religion…
so i just spun my economic response off of that.
i then remembered their production of timber…and other things i threw in.</p>
<p>@0705283-- ooh! i know >.<
good i left that one blank be/c i would have gotten it wrong.
i dont even know what falls under that category -_-
good that was the only question about it lol</p>
<p>Ah, timber! I didn’t remember that unfortunately. I did put their focus on religion clashing with the South’s focus on economy though.</p>
<p>For economy, you should have talked about how they were religiously based, and how they were substience farmers, only growing what they needed and sharing with the community. In hardship times, Winthrop would not allow people to eat if they did not grow food.</p>
<p>@ wahkimoocow
Yes, that question was really picky! Do you remember the one with the quotes relating to Progressive economics? (rephrased it, but you know years of the Progressive era). One choice was a quote by Benjamin Franklin about a penny saved…</p>
<p>@ ListenLoud
Ah yes that’s right… Thanks! Unfortunately it seems like I forgot a lot of outside knowledge on that one.</p>
<p>@ListenLoud: Score! I actually mentioned subsistence farming in my economy paragraph! :D</p>
<p>I also mentioned fishing… would that be a reasonable assumption also?</p>
<p>For economy I just wrote about how Puritan values instilled a close society that allowed for specialization. Some people were farmers, teachers, preachers, etc. I talked about briefly mercantile system, Navigation Acts (they started in 1651), etc. My overall driving force of my economic paragraph was how Puritans ideas and values allowed for this happen. The New England colonies didnt really have indentured servants or slaves so large plantations were out of the question and how they evolved into a trading/merchant society.</p>
<p>I wrote how they were cautious against trade, as they felt it would detract from religion. Would that be valid?</p>
<p>I talked about that document as an emerging rebellion against a profit oriented society as people feared that religious faith would wane. I don’t know how correct that is but I remember in the American Pageant book them mentioning something about a rebellion against the emerging profit-oriented middle class surfacing in events like the Salem witch trials.</p>
<p>^^ The first part is right, dunno bout the Witch Trials. They both came from the same type of thing, the breakdown of the religious mission, but im pretty sure they are two separate consequences.</p>
<p>For the economic part, I wrote how the Puritans soon found the New England soil to be too dry and gravelly for agriculture, but their “resourcefulness” stepped in (I just made that up, but weren’t they kinda resourceful or something?) and they went into the fish and timber industry. Then I wrote that despite assurances in Doc X, economic interests were carried to New England along with religious, although not so much as in the Chesepeake. After that I think I just kinda concluded the paragraph and said Puritans were resourceful again.</p>
<p>Oh and what outside info did you guys use for the DBQ? I mentioned Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, city upon a hill, public conversion, fish and timber, political dissent and economic depression in England, umm…That’s all I remember and probably all I used during the test…</p>