^Giancilii - you had US History in a Flash, right. And it totally slayed the DBQ and all the essays.</p>
I wrote about Watergate, Communist China strategy against the SU, Nixon Doctrine, Tet Offensive, anti-war protests, MLK assassination, Kennedy’s assassination, 1968, inflation and consumption limitations, OPEC embargo, other stuff, and used maybe 8 or 9 documents. I think i may have done better than I though I would have. I always got 6s in class, and I think I may have 7’d or 8’d this one 
Although, I didn’t know how to analyze much besides mentioning that this happened, he responded with this, and his response was this effective. Was that good enough?</p>
And I bought AMSCO for nothing -__- I barely used it to review since I was too busy looking at powerpoints and cram packets online The French and Indian War resulted in the French losing land in -->1763. Not the LA Purchase because of the year (fine print)!</p>
And, if AP Pass is accurate, I may have 5’d this! :)</p>
I can’t wait to get the results back in July. I am really confident that I got a 5. The new Direct Hits book was everything I thought it would be. I went back and read the last 3 chapters from 1970 on and was so prepared for the DBQ.</p>
The tips on their Facebook page were amazing too! I felt great today when I took the SAT II. Now I am reviewing for AP Bio on Monday.</p>
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Same here; if only DH was out at the beginning of the school year.</p>
anothergalaxy - what is AP Pass?</p>
How many paragraphs were everyone’s essays? My DBQ was 6, but I’m worried because I only had time for 4 paragraphs on the free responses…</p>
[AP</a> Pass - AP Us Calculator](<a href=“http://appass.com/calculators/us]AP”>AP U.S. History Test Score Calculator - AP Pass)</p>
That is exactly what i said. 100%. I feel better now.</p>
48 hours is up right? So now I can talk about the essays?</p>
DBQ- I basically used the documents (all of them because my teacher told us it was required -.-) to write 3 body paragraphs: one on Vietnam war, one on oil crisis, one on scandals (basically only Watergate.) My outside knowledge was basically just half the paragraph explaining the Vietnam War and what was going on and a little bit about Hawks vs Doves. For the oil, my outside info was just saying there was Middle East conflicts that caused it, and a little bit more about what was going on. My Watergate paragraph outside info was just explaining what happened with Watergate and how it caused his approval rating to plummet.</p>
So basically, the outside knowledge just elaborated on the documents. But it was 4 pages, w/ like 1.5 or 2 pages coming from my outside knowledge.</p>
FRQ1: I chose #3. Wrote about how even though an Era of Good Feeling was reached for a bit with Monroe, overall the political parties did not have much unity. I said that the Federalists/Whigs/Rebublicans party was more concerned with preserving national unity because they were all for a strong national government and unit. Wrote about Bills/Acts/events that supported that. Then wrote that Dem-Repubs/Democrat party was the main force driving the country toward sectionalism because of their want of states’ rights and expanded slavery for power. Wrote about things like nullification tensions and the Compromise of 1820. Concluded with wrapping everything up and suggesting that all of the above propelled the nation toward the Civil War. Essay was like 3.5 pages.</p>
FRQ2: I chose #4. Wrote only 2 body paragraphs, but they were long so the essay was 3 pages. Thesis was that 1840s-1850s was a more subdued outward opposition to immigration while 1910s to 1920s was more public and national and harsh. First body paragraph was about 1840s-50s and how it was more bark than bite. Wrote about Know-Nothings being against the Catholic Irish and German immigrants and how this immigrant opposition was driven mostly by that objection to religious differences and fear of immigrants taking over American jobs in the growing industrial cities. </p>
Then 2nd body paragraph was about 1910s-20s and how it was more of a national scale and obvious disapproval. Talked about how the KKK was now national and how “The Birth of A Nation” prompted many (including the Prez) to side with them. Spoke about Eugenics being used to try and prove white supremacy by many non-KKK people. Talked about immigration quotas like the National Origins Act. Finally, talked about how immigrants were excluded from many jobs and weren’t allowed to rent homes in some places, so they were relegated to tenement houses, whose deplorable conditions were exposed by Jacob Riis in “How the Other Half Lives.”</p>
Anyone have any guesses on approximately how many points these could be? I didn’t really study for this class all year, but I’m apparently an excellent essay bull-$hitter, so I’m counting on these to help me get a possible 5. Surprisingly, though, I think I may have somehow done pretty alright on the MC, though Idk how that happened. Lol. So any guesses as to points? Thanks…</p>
Did anyone discuss his southern strategy?
I believed one of the documents SORT OF dealt with that so I used it in my introduction paragraph?</p>
For the DBQ, I knew hardly anything about Nixon (Had not read about him since the summer, and didn’t review his era), but according to my teacher, I should have passed. My BSing included:</p>
- Energy Crisis - talked about how he reduced oil usage ect
- Social issues going on (incorrectly placed Watts riot in here, but oh well.)
- Foreign policy that included China/Russia and of course Vietnam
- Watergate - Described it and how it hurt him</p>
Then concluded. </p>
Then I chose Essay #2 and Essay #5
Origins of slavery was pretty easy - Indentured Servents were too hard to manage, Natives died too easily, and Africans turned to be ideal subjects
Spread largely because of Tobacco, Indigo, and rice
Legal in all colonies; Penn was the first to get rid of it
Stayed mostly in the south because that is where most of the growing was.</p>
And for number 5, I focused on:
1890-1920:
Booker T, DuBois, Garvey
1950-60:
MLK, Rosa Parks, sit-in protesters </p>
I feel that I got 5+ on all of my essays. I hope my MC pulls through.</p>
Since it’s been 48 hours, I guess we can talk about the essays (although you guys did so way earlier lol):</p>
Initially when I saw the DBQ my heart sank since I wasn’t expecting an essay on such a modern topic, but fortunately my class did go over Nixon. My paragraphs were:</p>
- Dealing with Vietnam; Vietnamization, Nixon Doctrine, Kent State University; Pentagon Papers; bombings of Cambodia
- Diplomatic relations with China and USSR; detente, SALT I treaty, first time the US president ever visited China
- Galvanizing public support, eventually turning to crude methods to do so; Robert Kennedy’s assassination (and how Nixon barely won the election), appeal to silent majority, Watergate affair
- Energy crisis; Iran/Middle East oil crisis, OPEC (I think this may have been Carter though D: ), stagflation</p>
I chose FRQs #2 and #5, like most people apparently. I was secretly hoping for a colonial FRQ so I immediately jumped to that one, haha.</p>
<h1>2: I talked about differences between use of indentured servants in the early-mid 1600s and how around 1700 the use of Africans for slave labor skyrocketed. Outside information:</h1>
mid-1600s: plantations for tobacco (John Rolfe), rice, indigo, poor white indentured servants, headright system, blacks expensive and mainly from West Indies
late-1600s to 1700s: Bacon’s Rebellion, ending of Dutch monopoly on slave trade, Barbados slave code, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, (I didn’t mention Stono Rebellion)</p>
<h1>5: I charted both #4 and #5 and I couldn’t think of much for #4 on the 1840s-1850s period besides nativists/Know-Nothings, so I ended up doing #5. Outside information:</h1>
1890s-1920s: Booker T Washington, WEB Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Back to Africa movement, NAACP
1950s-1960s: MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Stokley Carmichael, SNCC, SCLC, Montgomery bus boycotts, Black Panthers</p>
Overall I was pleased with the essays, and I felt well prepared for all of them. I definitely learned from the AP Euro test (where I spent waaay to long on the DBQ) and I had a good portion of time to write my FRQs.</p>
Source: Kevin Phillips, Nixon strategist and author of The Emerging Republican Majority
(1969), in an interview published in The New York Times, May 17, 1970.</p>
This one i presume? I also related it to the southern strategy, but im not sure.</p>
FRQs are already online:
[AP</a> Central - The AP United States History Exam](<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board)</p>
I still haven’t taken the APUSH test yet since the entire city was off for the Derby. I was on CollegeBoard’s website recently and noticed that Form A and Form B were already released…So is the AP test not going to Form A or B? It is it going to be Form C???</p>
No, you’ll be taking Form A. 4HBP is what we take, Form B is what other countries take, and Form A is for late testing: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/1141689-ap-exams-postponed.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/1141689-ap-exams-postponed.html</a></p>
Did anybody do essay 4, the one about comparing and contrasting oppositions to immigrations in the 1840s-50s and the 1910s-20s?</p>
I had enough to talk about for the later time period:
National Origins Act
Resurgence of the KKK
Labor Unions discriminating against immigrants
Horrible job conditions in meatpacking and industrial jobs</p>
But for the 1840s and 1850s:
Know - Nothing Party</p>
And that’s it… I BSed my way through it, but I was wondering what else I could talk about.</p>
Well I did 4, here was what I did</p>
18402-1850s
Dislike towards Roman Catholics (talked about literature stereotyping them, cartoons, the separation in education, etc.)
Labor unions and places in urban cities discriminating against the Irish and other groups, leading to riots
Know-nothing Party
Navitism
A bit about the prohibition movement (how it was partly due to foreigners such as the Irish and Germans enjoying alcohol due to their culture) </p>
1910s-1920s
Feelings towards Germans from WWI (Once again included prohibition here)
Red Scare (Sacco and Vanzetti Case, Palmer raids)
KKK
Immigration Acts</p>
Probably included more, but my memory is fading on me.</p>
Oh, I talked about nativism to and used the rest of your 1840 arguments as comparison with the 1910s.</p>
And oh! I forgot about the first Red Scare! That was dumb of me… Whatever I think I BSed enough to at least get a 5.</p>