<p>Hi guys, as the APUSH exam is rapidly approaching, what possible prompt do you guys think it might be on? My personal view is that it is likely on the guilded age since that hasnt come up in awhile?</p>
<p>Something relating to American History, most likely.</p>
<p>Haha, just kidding.</p>
<p>No idea whatsoever… I’m nervous as hell</p>
<p>im thinking guilded age and/or jackson…the two things i know least :(</p>
<p>As long as it’s not Carter, Reagan, or any of those guys 1970+ or I’m screwwed…</p>
<p>Last year I made a list of the last 30 years of DBQ topics, including their time periods, and I guessed the DBQ would cover 1800-1850 (it was actually from 1775-1830, so I guess I was pretty close). If I guessed again this year, I would probably focus on late-19th century - I don’t think they’ll have a 20th century DBQ since that’s what they did for one of the forms for 06 and 07, and both for 08. I could be completely wrong, though!</p>
<p>I think the Gilded Age is a good guess for the DBQ - I dont think it’s ever been a DBQ topic, or at least not since '73.</p>
<p>You think it might be the Gilded Age? Hm, what do I remember about the Gilded Age?</p>
<p>Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction–Hayes became president in return for no more troops in the South, at least 1 Southern cabinet member, and Republicans being less pushy for civil rights
Blacks were discouraged from voting through poll taxes which had grandfather clauses, intimidation (KKK), and literacy tests
Civil Rights case of 1883 limited the scope of the 14th amendment
Rapid industrialization
Former slaves became sharecroppers
First-generation millionaires like Carnegie (vertical integration), Rockefeller (horizontal integration), Mellon, Vanderbilt, JP Morgan–some called them “robber barons”
monopolies & trusts
Yellow journalism–William Randolph Hearst & Joseph Pulitzer
Lots of immigration (don’t remember details except the Chinese Exclusion Act and that there were lots of Irish I think)
Political corruption; big-city machines who gave immigrants things to make the immigrants vote for them so they could continue being bribed and stuff
Boss Tweed was the head of a machine in NYC
Spanish-American War–started because yellow journalists said that the Spanish sunk the "Maine/led to:
-Platt Amendment for Cuba
-US colonization of the Philippines
-territories Guam and Puerto Rico</p>
<p>Is that enough information for the essays? I don’t know because we haven’t practiced writing essays AT ALL in my class. -_________- If I made all that info connected and organized, what score would I get? I want an estimate because I think I know as much about the Gilded Age as anything else.</p>
<p>^ If you used all that outside information for a DBQ you would be set for a 7+.</p>
<p>REALLY? Omg thank you thank you. I feel so much better now. I was really worried.</p>