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<p>yay! its been 48 hours for me! sooooo…</p>

<p>i picked 2 and 4. Many thought 5 was easier but all i had for the japanese was the cpurt case and the concentration camps… so i went for 4 instead</p>

<p>the funny thing is that i didnt remember anything! i picked knights of labod and the afl</p>

<p>I bsed the whole thing adding info that i could not remember if it was right or not… and i ended up getting it all right lol… except for the pullman strike…which i added for no reason. But they wont take points off for wrong info so yay me!</p>

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<p>It depends when you finished the exam. I’m assuming that for most of the east coast 48 hours IS up but not for the other 3 time zones.
As for me, my exam finished over 54 hours ago, so I think its safe to post my questions.
Form B went as follows:
DBQ: In what ways did African Americans shape the course and consequences of the Civil War? (OWTTE)
FRQ2: How were the ideas of the Revolutionary Era embodied in the Articles of Confederation?
FRQ3: Analyse the tensions between Protestants and Catholics in the years between 1830 and 1850.
FRQ4: Account for the creation and the effect of TWO of the following third parties on national policies -
a) Populist Party
b) States’ Rights Party
c) American Independent Party
(*I forget what the fourth choice was)
FRQ5: Analyse the economic, political, cultural developments in the 1970s
OWTTE, I didn’t read 5 thoroughly because I saw “1970s” and I knew that I didn’t have enough information/facts to thoroughly answer all aspects of that question
So I chose FRQ 2 & 4</p>

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<p>It’s been 48 hours for me, so I’m talking!</p>

<p>So, on the DBQ I mentioned how some slaves were released to fight during the American Revolution, and I went into detail about the lives of those free slaves. I used the documents to explain how they were treated poorly in the North (Boston, etc.). I mentioned how slavery grew due to the Missouri Compromise and analyzed that, and I also mentioned how some slaves had rebellions. I forgot to mention the invention of the cotton gin (dumb me). I only hinted at the abolition movement; I didn’t want to say too much because the movement didn’t begin until after 1830.</p>

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<p>Bep: You’re DBQ seemed easy! At least you could talk about stuff that happened AFTER 1830!</p>

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<p>Yeah, it was pretty nice, but I felt that it was slightly ambiguous. Plus, the documents provided focused on political developments, and really, thats all I could mostly write about. It limited us to the years 1861-1870, so no talking about redeemer governments, Civil Rights Bill of 1875, or the Compromise of 1877…which was, well…frustrating.
I’m assuming the US DBQ was about African Americans in the Revolutionary period, or something like that? It’s so odd how similar the two forms are this year. That hasn’t ever happened before.</p>

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<p>A:
DQB: In 1790s there was slaves in south, some in north. by 1830, the north had none, south had a bunch. analyze effects that influenced the north and south for this to happen, and anaylyze how freed and slaves dealt with this</p>

<p>anyways, i talked about cotton gin by eli withney, and the inention of the reaper. culture, how south was more profiteering, north was more manufacturing and small farming. missouri compromise, blhblahblah, didn’t use 1 doc.
Question:
i mentioned turner’s rebellion-i might be in trouble, this happened 1831, 1 year out of the given time frame- do you think they’ll take it? :S</p>

<p>2: analyze evennts between 1763-1776 that lead to increase tensions between colonies and britain- how did these lead to colonial republican ideas?
talked about french and indian war, proclamation of 1763, sugar act, stamp act, stamp act congress, declaratory act, townshend acts, tea party, sons of liberty, comitees of correspondance, quartering act, intolerable acts, first continental congress, declaration of rights and grievances, second continental congress, olive branch petition, battles of lexington, concord, dec of ind. also talked about paine’s common sense and locke’s natural law
i didn’t just list them(in that order) i analyzed how they affected both parties, etc.</p>

<p>5: analyze the home front efforts during WWII for:
african americans, japanese maericans, jeweish, mexican americans
i talked about great migrations for AA, less segregation, etc.
mexican american brasero farmers, etc.</p>

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<p>Question:
i mentioned turner’s rebellion-i might be in trouble, this happened 1831, 1 year out of the given time frame- do you think they’ll take it? :S</p>

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<p>Wow! You’re right, that’s more difficult than I thought. The time frames they assigned for the DBQs on both forms were odd. </p>

<p>Form Q’s DBQ was: Explain how slaves were emancipated, and also explain how slavery grew from the years 1766-1830. Also, explain how the lives were for both freed slaves, and slaves. <— More or less.</p>

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<p>Selter: I’m afraid they probably will take off for that, but they probably won’t take off too much. That’s the thing that upset me with that DBQ, the time frame was very limited!</p>

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<p>oops I completely forgot about the missouri compromise (i know, how could i forget). is that a major issue do you think?</p>

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<p>Dang Nat Turners rebellion was 1831. Oops. I was trying to think of the name of the Stono uprising the whole time but couldn’t until right after time was called. Ugh.</p>

<p>Anybody else work in Crispus Attucks into their DBQ?</p>

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<p>no, you don’t LOSE points for information outside of the time frame. the graders are supposed to reward you for what you do right but not punish for inaccurate information.</p>

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<p>I also forgot about the Missouri Compromise. =(
But I talked about the main things like everyone else- cotton gin, cottonocracy, etc. and i also added how the Second Great Awakening added a moral side to the issue of slavery and elaborated on it (the picture of the black people in the church in philadelphia or w.e it was reminded me of the second great awakening). The 2nd great awakening part was really good imo. lol.</p>

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<p>huh? i had that one, and mine was form r. are they supposed to be different?</p>

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<p>by the way, did anyone get the impression that some of the documents seemed to be advocating blacks respecting whites?</p>

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<p>Bee & Elaslawek: The Missouri Compromise seemed like a major issue to me. I figured that’s why they gave us the map.</p>

<p>Jennie: Either I forgot and had form R, or the only difference between R and Q were the arrangement of the MC questions.</p>

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<p>Bee: One document was explaining how some slaves were happy that some white (most likely Northern whites), were helpful in trying to prevent the expansion of slavery. The other one was explaining how one slave was trying to buy his way out of slavery, and how his master was all for it.</p>

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<p>i agree the MC was probably pretty important, but i thought the map was more to show us how slavery had expanded due to the acquisition of new territories and the exhaustion of the soil in the original south.</p>

<p>(By MC I mean missouri compromise lol)</p>

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<p>Hey, that might work too. I guess as long as you managed to incorporate the map into a believable argument, you’ll score well. Honestly, I didn’t even think about cotton! LOL.</p>

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<p>I just kept rambling on about how the South’s economy needed slaves in order to flourish, unlike the North’s.</p>