Official AP US History Thread 2012

<p>@drambig0x - “WAITTT GUYs are they going to be lenient with grading the essays like does anyone know how that works”</p>

<p>No, of course not. If you just BSed the essays they will know that and you will be done.</p>

<p>@SimplyBMW - “If you write only about the National Origins Act of 1924 and the Quota Act of 1922 for the immigration in the 20s and do pretty well for the prohibition part, what would you give the FRQ overall?”</p>

<p>It depends on how you argue them and integrate the, “bigger picture” aspect. Simply mentioning those acts is not enough.</p>

<p>yeah if someone has that compiled question list can you please PM it to me or send it to me at jman010295 @ a o l . com</p>

<p>@killer2021 I integrated them pretty well into the bigger picture.</p>

<p>DBQ: </p>

<p>This was my thesis: Big buisnesses devestated other sectors of the economy and forced Americans, especially farmers, to take political actions to lash out against laziee-faire capitalism.</p>

<p>2nd paragraph - I talked about the development of the transcontinental railroad and how it was so important because it developed the oil, steel, and copper industry and brought the nation together for the first time. The I went into how standard oil and rockfeller made a monopoly by horizontal integration and andrew carnegie vertical integration. The major industries were also able to gain political power and prevent any legislation that would harm them. Like the sherman anti trust act. Although passed, it was weakly enforced. Finished it off with how it hurt small buisnesses and used three documents.</p>

<p>3rd paragraph - I talked about the rail road rates, interstate commerce act, populist party, farmers alliance, cross of gold speech</p>

<p>4th paragraph - afl, knights of labor, pullman strike, labor conditions</p>

<p>5th - talked about how big buisnesses countered against all the accusations by using social darwinism, eugenics, gospel of wealth. Nevertheless, Americans still atacked them.</p>

<p>6th - tied it all up in a conclusion</p>

<p>Used 7 documents and took up 4 pages. What do you think the score will be?</p>

<p>Does anyone have an answer to my question about different forms?</p>

<p>What was the one about the cabinets from 1960-1980?</p>

<p>social issues and something else</p>

<p>Social services? Tht was like in the #60s right?</p>

<p>BVWMath, this was the first year that the College Board has issued different forms for several of the tests, APUSH included. They explain here: </p>

<p>[Important</a> Changes: 2011-12](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/ap/about/changes]Important”>Important Updates for 2022-23 – AP Central | College Board)</p>

<p>The reason is supposed to be that they’re moving toward releasing a full test annually (presumably the one most people took) and keeping the other to reuse. I would bet you took the second version of the test, which means your essay prompts will not be on the website tomorrow and, technically, you are not supposed to ever discuss them, even with your teacher.</p>

<p>Does anyone have a compiled list of answers? Can you please post it here.</p>

<p>I was hoping someone could answer a question about the essays and how they’re scored for me.</p>

<p>I used what I felt was a substantial amount of relevant outside information for all three essays, and I cited and used all of the documents in the DBQ. However, I felt that my writing was sub-par – no really strong theses or analyses, too much repetition. How much is the structure weighed in comparison with the inclusion and discussion of the historical information? I feel I got at least 60 MC right (maybe even 70? Certainly somewhere in that range), and I’m hoping for a 5.</p>

<p>(Hopefully this is within legal bounds for discussion – I’m not discussing any specific questions or content that appeared on the test…)</p>

<p>What would an example of a strong thesis for the dbq have been? My teacher always told us to rephrase the question into a statement while stating say whether it had a huge or small influence on blah blah blah</p>

<p>Serious question what would my essay score be if I accidentally included Kansas Nebraska and dredscott while having new fugitive slave wilmont and cali?</p>

<p>So will there be different curves for each exam? I doubt the two exams were equally difficult.</p>

<p>Yeah of course what any my essay score?</p>

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<p>Now that i hear that dudes DBQ, I am kinda nervous :(</p>

<p>vampy, what is wrong with using Kansas-Nebraska?</p>

<p>Kansas-Nebraska is OUT of the time period, which was exclusively from 1800-1850.</p>

<p>So Like a four or five I guess</p>

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