Official AP US History Thread 2012

Hey guys does anyone know how well the Princeton Review questions tend to compare to the real test in difficulty level? I scored 65/80 on the MC and I want to know if I can expect a score like that on the test. In my class, the tests are all really hard compared to the test, and I usually score around 60/80 on them.</p>

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Here we go again…</p>

i mean failing anything wont look too great for colleges but i dont think that the ap grade is really that important to colleges, they use it more for placement in courses. </p>

anyone know which part of the rea crash course to read? the chronological review or the key terms and themes?</p>

Yea last year they got rid of the guessing penalty for ap euro and the multiple choice was a lot harder than any of the practice exams we took</p>

and this is why the amount of pts needed for a 5 keeps decreasing. this yr ittll be like 103</p>

I’m nervous about the essays</p>

:frowning: My teacher didn’t prepare us very well. We took zero practice tests because he made us do those on our own… and we only did about 3 DBQs this year which he only read the first paragraph on and then graded us based on that.</p>

I’m so nervous. I’m on chapter 15 of the AMSCO book (15 more chapters to go tonight!) I will probably take a lot of practice tests tonight as well. I’m hoping that if I do well on the MC portion then that might makeup for my horrible essays and DBQ.</p>

Good-luck everyone!!</p>

I took the 2001 exam and got an 85 on the multiple choice. Then I took the 2006 exam and got an 89.</p>

Not even worried.</p>

I’m off to bed.</p>

Good Luck Everyone! Namedrop/brainstorm like a BAWS before you write an essay, it will all come to you. TRUST ME.</p>

Sorry if this is a little late, but could anyone help me with this?</p>

Which of the following groups was LEAST likely to respond with enthusiasm to the religious fervor of the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s?
(A) Established merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia
(B) Presbyterians in the southern colonies
(C) Backwoods farmers isolated on the colonial frontier
(D) Landless sons in New England communities
(E) Itinerant preachers unable to find permanent parishes for themselves</p>

The answer is A. I chose B because I thought the 1st Great Awakening didn’t really touch the South…</p>

You mean 89%, right? Because there are only 80 questions on the 2006 exam…</p>

Merchants by that time were in their own separate class, and the First Great Awakening sought to return religion to a more personal level. Having a lot of money and constantly traveling doesn’t really scream a group that would be concerned with religion.</p>

@piedpilko Yes.</p>

I’m so worried for the exam. I feel like I’m going to completely blank out when I get to the DBQ and FRQs!! ■■■</p>

Hey, does anyone know the major authors and artists that we should know for the exam?</p>

I’ve brainstormed a few, but I’m blanking.</p>

Authors
-Thomas Paine: Common Sense
-Washington Irvine - One of the first world-wide american authors, as a result of post war of 1812 nationalism.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau - Transcendentalists (AKA hippies)
-Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
-Nathaniel Hawthorne: Scarlet Letter (1850) - Dealt with puritan beliefs, though it was written later.
-F Scotts Fitzgerald - lost generation

  • Beat Generation authors???</p>

Artists
-Hudson River School?</p>

John Kerouac for Beat Generation. Wrote “On the Road”. Great freaking book.</p>

You should probably also know The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan and The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois</p>

Books:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Century of Dishonor - Helen Hunt Jackson
How the Other Half Lives - Jacob Riis
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Grapes of Wrath - John Stienbeck</p>

Know that the “Lost Generation” were disillusioned writers who went to Europe after WWI</p>

Thanks, Matugi!</p>

beat writer jack kerouac</p>

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For artists you should know:
WPA (Works Progress Administration, employed many artists during the Depression)
Hudson River School (Landscapes)
Dorothea Lange (Photography, known for Migrant Mother/dust bowl shots of families)
Jacob Riis (How the other half lives, also photography)
Ashcan School (paintings of New York and city life, early 20th century)
Thomas Hart Benton (Was commissioned to do murals depicting American life)
Harlem Renaissance (Was an African American movement of both literature and art)</p>