<p>I think it'd be interesting to see something like the kitchen debate...or whether or not it was right to bomb Hiroshima. Not just easy topics, but interesting ones, too. I know last year on the AP they had some weird Quaker one or something. High time for a 20th century one, you know?</p>
<p>Just wondering what you guys find/found interesting in your APUSH studies. =)</p>
<p>Last year, the DBQ was on the Puritans. It was totally unexpected.</p>
<p>I would like to see a DBQ on…actually, I have no idea. lol</p>
<p>A nice World War I DBQ, maybe on the debate over entering the war? I’d enjoy that.</p>
<p>My teacher last year guaranteed us that the AP test-makers never went as far back as the 17th century for essay topics; needless to say, the Puritan essay caught us all off guard.</p>
<p>I always liked the antebellum period. Jacksonian Democracy, sectional tensions, etc. I hated the Gilded Age and onward.</p>
<p>^Agree. I generally like everything from Jacksonian Democracy to Civil War, and then everything after WWI. </p>
<p>For an essay, I think it’d be a step in a new and interesting direction if there were an essay on like the late 1980s or 1990s.</p>
<p>I hate reform movement dbq’s because they usually pull documents from ALL the reform movements, and it’s hard to produce specific details for all of them.</p>
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lol Puritans… not Quakers… It was hella easy, actually.</p>
<p>PioneerJones: really? You didn’t like the 20th century? That was my favorite. I love(d?) the '20s, the wars… Actually I like learning about all the wars in history classes… Whether it was justifiable for us to start the revolution, and to what degree–if any–it was class motivated… Civil War… WWI, WWII. All so fascinating. A question on whether dropping the bombs was justified would be great; I’d love to argue that one.</p>
<p>Haha, I remember when everybody opened their booklets last year and saw the word “Puritans”, there was a collective groan and the kid behind me said “you have got to be freaking kidding me”. </p>
<p>The only thing I had studied really well was the factors that led to the Civil War. Luckily that was a question! </p>
<p>I would have LOVED a question on counterculture in the 60s or something, but I know that’d be basically unheard of.</p>
<p>The year I took it my teacher promised there would not be anything past the 1940’s-1950’s ( I think) on the essays. He told us to skim the chapters so we can answer the few questions in teh MC. We all opened our DBQ’s and nearly cried when we got a question on vietnam.</p>
<p>I definitely want to see a question about the South and slavery but I really doubt it will happen. But anything about World War II I am good with and I’ll be happy to see a question pertaining to that. </p>
<p>And at the rate my class is going right now we’d be more than happy to have a question about the Puritans :D</p>