<p>OK. So I've heard a lot concerning this years DBQ which, I completely agree, was unbeleivably difficult. Since the collegeboard only comes out with the sample responses in the fall lets discus our FRQ's to find some copmmon threads and see what might have lead to that brain-stumping 3 or expected 5. BTW I got a five.</p>
<p>DBQ (not in order of discussion, just points i discussed or mentioned)</p>
<p>-Lowell Girls
-Seneca Falls
-Daughters of the Revolution
-Wealthy women's maintenence of stereotypical womanhood
-Republican motherhood (what it meant, initially)
-Slave-women and why feminists would sympatahize with them
-Oberlin College and the western womanhood
-New forms of birth control create smaller families thus children get more attention---> cult of domesticity forms
-Age of Reform (antebellum)
MAIN IDEAS: Both Industrial Revolution and Westward Movement had significant impacts on these concepts</p>
<p>FRQ #3</p>
<p>Westward Movement
Railroad Land Grants
Indian Appropriation Act
Homestead Act
CONNECTED ALL THESE TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY ALL WORKED TOGETHER</p>
<p>Racial Divisions
Reconstrruction (Duh!)
ex Parte Mulligan
Reconstruction Acts
Black Codes
Jim Crow
Grandfather Clause
Failure would lead to problems like Plessy v. Ferguson
ONCE MORE CONNECTED ALL THESE</p>
<p>FRQ#4</p>
<p>Red Scare
Railroad Strike 1922
Steel Strike 1919
IWW
Immigration Acts (1921 and 1924)
Trade Unions (I think, not for sure)
Conservatism in politics
Gave background for both issues (immigration and labor)
RED SCARE WAS MAIN THEME (IT WAS THE CATALYST FOR THE HALT OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT)</p>
<p>*NOTE: WILL BE UPDATED WHEN I GET MY FR BOOKLET BACK</p>
<p>P.S. I used up my whole booklet plus a page extra! Was kinda funny during the test.</p>
<p>Umm...Okay AP exams were like forever ago. And I don't remember ANYTHING about them. I mean who has the time to sit and remember the essay questions that were asked on the exam? ---Not me. Wait I remember something about the Declaration of Independence...I take that back I do remember something...probably wasn't important though =D</p>
<p>irata: i am a history nerd so i even like to learn history during the summer when there is not school. plus, it's not about the grade (evident in your quote "you already got a five"), it's about making kids who feel disappointed with their APUSH grade understand, possibly, why they received what they received and not feel so lost (for I have seen many threads that say something like "2? I was totally expecting a 5 :()</p>
<p>okikoreagirl: i did not try to remember these essays, this is just what cam to mind.</p>
<p>If you guys really dont like this thread i will delete it (if that is possible). just trying to be helpful, though.</p>
<p>haha i would discuss with u if i took APUSH but i didnt :( ....nice idea though.....and if u ppl dont like this thread/idea..then u know what..just DONT post in it i mean...wow...</p>
<p>I don't really remember a lot about the mc and the essays (but especially the essays). For the DBQ, I focused a lot about middle class white women, and had another paragraph that contrasted with the lives of black women and women on the frontier. For the FRQ, I think I picked every essay that you didn't.. for the post 1950s, I wrote about intellectuals and the beatnik movement (fortunately didn't veer into the 1960s which I heard a lot of people did). I can't even remember the other.</p>
<p>The DBQ wasn't difficult at all. All the information was really easy to categorize. The rest of the essays weren't hard either.</p>
<p>Dude, I'm a history nerd too, and I'm not anxious about the answers. US history has to be the most boring history class you can take... except maybe history of nail clipping.</p>
<p>I remember on the DBQ I focused mainly on the women of the American revoultion, specifically Jane Adams, and then all the girls of New England who worked in textile factories. I don't remember what else I wrote.</p>