If I mislabeled one of these rebellions, would I be penalized??</p>
Like, if I had explained BACONS rebellion and said indentured servants revolted and everything, but I had called that SHAYS rebellion, would my point still be valid?</p>
I tried to find the answers on Google for the questions I was iffy about on the MC, and I’m scared now because I assume I got all the ones I guessed on wrong.</p>
I skipped the contraband question lol.</p>
Here’s from Wikipedia:</p>
“Contraband was a term commonly used in the United States during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain escaped slaves or those who came into the possession of Union forces”</p>
@Theking: I don’t think it would matter, because neither applied to slavery. Indentured servitude is not slavery. Therefore, even had you labeled it correctly, it’s not valid support. </p>
Because it’s too easy to predict. College Board isn’t - for lack of a better word - superstitious in their selections as many of us are with our predictions.</p>
Does anyone think the fact that wrong answers wont count against you is going to raise the composite score range?</p>
Uh SeekingUni, I hope you do realize that the whole slavery thing started off with indentured servants…
65% of the Chesapeake Bay colonists were indentured servants…</p>
so I do think that it is a pivotal issue… Sure, its not worthy enough to be the 3rd paragraph of an essay, but certainly it belongs in the essay.</p>
For #5, what leaders did you talk about?</p>
I did Dubois, Washington, Garvey for first part</p>
Then MLK and Malcolm X for part 2</p>
Guys if I make a mistake but prove a good point and my essay is well written, do I get a 2 or 3? People are expecting to get 2’s and 3’s on their essays, but then saying they will get a 70/80 on the M/C</p>
This confuses me because I wrote a full essay for all 3, and although a couple of my events and people were mistake, I still think the essay was a good one. I don’t think a possible 8 or 9 will go down to a 3 with one silly mistake, yet it seems like some people do think so. So is an 8 or a 9 impossible to get or what?</p>
njs52595,
the way the scoring works this year is that each question write is worth 1.125 ana total 90 points. they dbq is woth 45% of 90 points and the fr are each 27.5%.</p>
a 91 is need for a 4, 111 for a 5
this is how understood it from ap central</p>
Contraband basically has to do with runaway slaves hiding behind Union lines during the Civil War.</p>
For me…
MC - not sure. Can only hope I did well here.
DBQ - got wrecked here honestly. didn’t even learn about Nixon that much - all I really knew about him was the watergate scandal & the secret bombings of Cambodia (which were both in the documents so it didn’t really count as outside information…). I kind of learned as I read the documents… which isn’t exactly a good thing. Tried to analyze the documents and use what information I knew. But I wrote four pages of analysis and hopefully I pulled off at least a 4.</p>
FRQ’s - Picked 2 & 5</p>
I found 2 was more storytelling than analysis, but I’m pretty sure I did alright on this. I made a few mistakes in 5, (called W.E.B DuBois “W.E.D. Bois”) lol but hopefully I did alright. I had no problem with the FRQ’s, but the DBQ was kind of difficult for me. I was kind of mad at myself for not knowing more about Nixon, but whatever, I tried my best, lol</p>
Hoping for a 4.</p>
Yes, I do. However, you weren’t asked to describe/analyze the development of indentured servitude, were you? Bacon’s Rebellion consisted of poor small farmers, poor blacks and indentured servants… not slaves. What WOULD have worked for you as a supporting detail is the Stono rebellion.</p>
Slaves revolted in the Stono Rebellion. Am I right? That was a last minute information that I made a note to read the last paragraph I wrote and then read the real conclusion (which is before the Stono Rebellion part.=).</p>
What about the native Americans in ww2? And during 1890s, what was the travel?</p>
The multiple choice was not valid at all; instead of asking for themes of history and for major events, it asked for extremely arbitrary facts about US History; in addition, this has been the only exam to my knowledge to have covered modern history in such detail-- probably a good 30 - 40% of the exam was the 1960s and beyond.</p>
The DBQ has never been as late as it was today-- the FRQs also seemed to emphasize parts of history that really were not that significant. World Wars I and II, in addition to the War of 1812 and the Cold War, were all really undermined throughout. I was sure there would be a Civil War FRQ in honor of the 150th anniversary. Ultimately, I studied in a way that would insure a 5 on any of the past exams; however, suddenly they seem to want us to know about more current history (seriously-- one of the MCQ was about something that occurs today–ridiculous).</p>
Worst-case scenario, I think I did:
MCQ: 55 / 80
DBQ : 4 / 9
FRQ3: 8 / 9
FRQ4: 7 / 9</p>
According to last year’s curve, that is just reaching 5 material. But though this test was definitely more difficult, I am sure the guessing penalty will end up hurting the curve, so it’s anyone’s call.</p>
The whole concept is that indentured servitude was a prominent form of slavery of the time period; therefore, it is important to message it when you are describing how slavery developed over time in the colonies.</p>
If I accidently called Booker T Washington Washington Irving at one spot in my essay how many will that cost me in that essy?</p>
I think the key misconception here is that indentured servitude was willfully entered, while slavery was not; indentured servants could look to their freedom from bondage after the period specified in their contract, while slaves could not. Also, indentured slavery did not turn into or develop into slavery. Rather, the colonists found slavery to be much more cost-effective and could be used on a much larger scale with much greater results (for them), so they shifted from utilizing indentured servitude to using slavery.</p>
i thought the test was gonna be WAY harder than it was</p>
the multiple choice was okay, i think i got at least 60/80 although maybe i made more mistakes than i remember (the contraband thing i know i got right-- i had looked it up the day before the test, thank god! but there were others i wasn’t sure at all about)</p>
the dbq i thought i did okay-- i didn’t mention the war powers act, but i talked about nixon, detente,lack of honesty, cambodia, opec, vietnamization, watergate… i didn’t elaborate a ton or really heavily analyze the documents though so maybe that’s an issue
i’m just glad it wasn’t 1800s reform movements or gilded age or something!</p>
frq-- i did 2 and 5. when i saw 2 i was over the moon because it was almost the same as a practice dbq i had done so i had things to talk about… the other one looked confusing. i talked about geography, north/south, indentured servants/headright system/bacon’s rebellion, attempts to enslave native americans, stuff about climate/immunity to malaria/knowledge of rice cultivation, tobacco and john rolfe, triangle trade… i don’t remember what else. i think my thesis was pretty weak, and so was my conclusion. is that a big deal?</p>
for 5, i really didn’t do as much analyzing as i probably should have. i talked about lots of leaders and their policies, but not really very in depth, and i think the essay was really disorganized. i mentioned w.e.b. dubois, booker t, langston hughes, garvey, ida b. wells, mlk, malcolm x, stokley carmichael, elijah muhammed… i think that was it. but how much does organization/thesis matter?</p>
I3auer… I completely agree with you…</p>
Indentured servants play a very important role in the development of slavery. Most of the migrants were actually indentured servants…</p>
I’m typing the following STRAIGHT from REA CrashCourse: </p>
“Bacon’s Rebellion exposed tensions between the former indentured servants, who were poor, and the gentry (the genteel class of planters), who were rich. As planters became more suspicious of their former indentured servants, they turned to slaves as more reliable sources of labor.”</p>
Idk, at least in my mind, it makes perfect sense to include the indentured servants in an essay about how the slaves came about to be. </p>
Of course, I value your opinion too, or else I would not have taken the time to go and get CrashCourse from the confines of my backpack.</p>
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@itsraininghere Seriously?! Our APUSH teacher told us we have to use ALL of them (luckily that wasn’t that hard for this particular essay, but did get a bit wonky in certain places when I tried to fit info in). When we said we only used like 2/3 or so in AP Euro last year, he told us that was wrong. Lol. Fail.</p>