<p>I feel relatively good about the test. Definitely got a 4 (at least according to appass), and I’m hoping for a 5. Still I definitely leaned too heavily on the documents for the DBQ (had a couple of outside events, but overall not too much) and one of my essays was structured pretty poorly (basically a chronological progression that I tried to relate back to the thesis). Essentially, if I get that 5, the MC and my last essay carried me.</p>
<p>Hey guys. I’m taking the makeup AP US test next week on Wednesday since I couldn’t take it on the normal date. Almost certain it’s a different test. Makeup exams from previous years aren’t released. Do you guys think/know (especially those who have graded AP US in the past) whether the level of difficulty for the makeup is similar to the regular? Most people here are saying it was easy this year, so I’m hoping the makeup will also be easy, but I fear that since it’s a makeup, it will naturally be harder, and the curve will also screw me up (since the overall curve will be tougher).</p>
<p>What do you guys think? Should I be worried?</p>
<p>@ JTG4321
For the longest time, I simply could not remember what caused the War of 1812. In the end I wrote something about impressment and freedom of the seas, but I had horrible doubts while writing that Impressment was WWII. I also said the war of 1812 ended impressment 
, guess we’ll get some points docked for that. </p>
<p>Also, how did you divvy up your paragraphs on that essay? I did one body par. on the Washinton administration, focusing on his Farewell Address. I did a second par. on Adams + Jefferson, focusing on how they avoided war with France, the XYZ affair, and how Jefferson imposed an Embargo instead of going to war. I did a third par. on Madison and Monroe, focusing on how Madison couldn’t avoid the War, although he tried, and the Monroe Doctrine that further demonstrated America’s isolationist attitude. </p>
<p>I was going to include Quincy Adams, thank god I didn’t, he was 1824.</p>
<p>Did everyone take APUSH as a full-year course this year, or for just one semester? My daughter’s HS is only offering it as a one-semester course next year, and I’m concerned that one semester is not enough to properly prepare for the exam.</p>
<p>Year round class, and you are correct 1 semester isn’t enough, so i would advise getting the American pageant book and like a barrons or Princeton review, and maybe even a tutor to teach how to write frqs and dbqs right, if the teacher doesnt</p>
<p>One semester is absolutely not enough.</p>
<p>I took APUSH in only one semester & I feel pretty confident with how I did on the exam. Make sure your daughter works hard in class & she should be fine. I also recommend using REA review books during the 2nd semester to review on the material.</p>
<p>FRQ were released.</p>
<p>I wrote 3 and 5. I did good on my DBQ and second essay. But on my first essay I forgot to mention Louisiana Purchase. 
I did mention Washington’s farewell address, XYZ Affair, Quasi-War, African pirates, War of 1812, and Monroe Doctrine. Will I be okay?</p>
<p>you will be okay regardless of whether you get a 1 or 5 on the exam anyway, but i would imagine that’s enough</p>
<p>Easiest DBQ ever. Rough thesis- Growing national opposition to slavery came from Northern paranoia and a growing concern for human rights. If I ever had a chance of getting 7+, it was on this DBQ.</p>
<p>Foreign policy FRE- Hit everything from Washington to Monroe except for the stuff about African pirates. Confident I did decent.</p>
<p>Technology FRE- Skimped on this one, not my best work by any stretch, but I argued that new technology oppressed the worker and forced them to take political action in order to regain their civil liberties. I examined the development of the Grange/Populist movements among farmers being oppressed by price gauging at the onset of railroads and canals, as well as the formation of the Progressive movement concurrently with oppression in factories. I think my argument was strong, but my evidence wasn’t up to par. Expecting to get a lower score on this one.</p>
<p>Expecting a 4, hoping for a 5 :)</p>
<p>It seems like people at my school all had very different groupings for their DBQ.</p>
<p>Mine were early abolition of slavery in the North, treaties, writers, and organizations.</p>
<p>DBQ: north and south from early were split for moral reasons in north and economic in the south, regarding slavery
Second Great Awakening,abolition,american col society, the liberator and garrison, fred douglass, anti american slave society
Westward expansion, tallmadge amendment and missouri compromise, annexation of texas/texas war, mexican war, wilmot proviso, compromise of 1850, fugitive slave law and such
finish dbq with harriet beecher stowe’s uncle tom’s cabin how it was read all over the world and would be a reason foreign nations wouldn’t be in the civil war</p>
<p>Estimated score: 7+</p>
<p>FRQ 2:
Mercantalism and how it works, navigation acts, salutary neglect, smuggling with french indies, triangle trade, middle passage, molasses act, shipping in the north and southern plantations and how those would connect, slaves in the south increased because of bacon’s rebellion and slave monopoly in africa being ends</p>
<p>Estimated score: 6+</p>
<p>FRQ 4
farmers, frontier dry cropping (just a factoid), land grants, homestead act, dawes act, super farms (big business corrupts farming), gilded age laissez faire, farmers take out loans to keep up with super farms take out loans , buys technologies, leads to overspeculation (panic of 73 and 93), struggle leads to granges and the populists, williams jenning brian and inflationary monetary policies gold to silver standard, barbed wire trust
workers, trusts, immigrants, strikes, rr strike, homestead strike, pullman strike, pinkerton detectives, immigrants were strikebreakers, army called into to handle strikes, no power to workers all control to big business, got better in progressive era with roosevelt and taft busting trusts, but returned with the dawn of the 20’s </p>
<p>Expanded off of technology idea</p>
<p>Estimated 7+</p>
<p>Most definitely got a 5</p>
<p>Anybody else care to share their theses/ outlines? Here’s mine:</p>
<p>DBQ: Growing opposition to slavery was based on increasing moral awareness, sympathy for the slaves, and a series of unsatisfying compromises. </p>
<p>Par1: Moral awareness originated mainly in 2nd great awakening, and antislavery had firm grounds in God and the Constitution.
Par2: Sympathy for slaves grew from novels published by blacks and by laws like Fugitive Slave law.
Par3: Agonizing compromises and decisions only infuriated the North more, e.g. Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott decision and implications, Fugitive Slave Law</p>
<p>FRQ 3: America avoided foreign wars and entanglements in the period from 1789-1823 in order to protect the fragility of the new nation. </p>
<p>Par1: Washington kept the US from helping France in their revolution despite the public’s demand to help the revolutionaries. His Farewell Address set the stage for the foreign policy of the next few decades.
Par2: Adams kept the US out of war with france, negotiating, sending envoys (XYZ affair), and Jefferson kept us further out of war with Britain and France with the Embargo Act.
Par3: Madison couldn’t help but go to war with Britain. War of 1812 was quickly resolved with the Treaty of Ghent, with no major changes. Monroe promised to keep out of European affairs if Europe left the West alone (Monroe Doctrine).</p>
<p>FRQ5: Blacks and college students are two examples of groups that protested in the tumultuous post-war era, and they protested against social and political injustices.
Par1: Oustide info about Blacks: Double V campaign, Emmett Till, freedom rides, Little Rock high school, Civil Rights Act of 1964, SNCC, etc.
Par2: Outside info about College Students: SDS, Port Huron statement, Kent State U, bombing of Cambodia, napalm, etc.</p>
<p>Dred Scott was out of time range for dbq</p>
<p>What are the repercussions for putting something out of the time frame? I put something WAY out of the time frame for the DBQ & I’m really worried about it.</p>
<p>You should still be fine but you will be docked point and that part of analysis won’t be counted</p>
<p>I’m wondering, i know there are hot button words the graders are looking for, but what if you didn’t explicitly say them and instead explained them. If I didn’t say second great awakening in my DBQ but talked about the liberation of the individual do I still get points?</p>
<p>You won’t get full points but you’ll still get plenty to receive a good score, depending on your analysis</p>