<p>My friend told me that REA listed which presidents you could skip over.. but I dont have the book and all bookstores in my town are sold out of them. Could someone post the presidents we can skip?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Well im just gonna list the ones who did nothing or had no major impact on US History:</p>
<p>Franklin Pierce
FIllmore
Buchanan(just know he did nothing about the problem of slavery)
Garfield(killed, led to Pendleton Act)
Arthur
George W Bush (prob dont need to know bout him)</p>
<p>Crash course is not helpful for ap</p>
<p>source: I took it last year.</p>
<p>Crash Course is amazing for the AP.</p>
<p>smarts1- what makes it so?</p>
<p>its only helpful for the MC questions but you need to know all the extra little details for the essays. You have to show you know alot of details about history to write an essay.</p>
<p>^ Most people are only using Crash Course for the MC. And you don’t need an extravagant amount of details for the essay, just knowledge of all the major Events, Acts, Presidents, Wars etc. which are all covered by the book.</p>
<p>I think crash course would be sufficient for “okay” essay scores. Like 5’s and and maybe 6’s.</p>
<p>The only thing I knew about US History was from crash course last year and I did amazing on my essays. Felt completely prepared for both FRQs and the DBQ. Writing technique is something the book doesn’t teach, but the material is there imo.</p>
<p>How important are Harding and Coolidge? If they are what were their impacts?</p>
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<p>Um, Crash Course gives you all of the necessary factual support needed to defend an essay. 5’s and 6’s if you suck at writing and use Crash Course, an 8 or 9 if you can actually construct a coherent essay.</p>
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You should probably ask this in the APUSH discussion thread. Harding/Coolidge associated with “Return to normalcy”. Stereotypical Republican favoring big business and against improvement of labor relations, limited government intervention/involvement + relatively decent popularity due to the “Roaring Twenties”.</p>
<p>^ I agree. Just look at some of the 9 scoring essays. All the info they used was in the Crash Course. But it was all relevant and they actually fully memorized it.</p>
<p>Just know they are 1920s Republican presidents who let the market work pretty much without government interference, save for high tariffs. Harding was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal in which many Americans came to dislike him, and he advocated a “return to normalcy.”</p>
<p>What REA Crash Course does is organize the material differently. If your text organizes information chronologically, Crash Course pulls together all the important events about history of women, Native Americans, Supreme Court decisions, etc. Hopefully, you have been through it all before, but when you review it from different angles it makes sense in new ways. Mastering this kind of material and writing good esays is all about the connections.</p>
<p>^^Alright, thanks! :)</p>
<p>Crash Course is simply AMAZING!</p>