APUSH ESSAY PLANNING

APUSH ESSAY PLANNING

Time Period # of writing questions (analyzed from 24 released exams) LEQ DBQ SA LEQ DBQ SA Total (appearances out of 24 past exams) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 0 2 14% 0% 25% 58% 3 10 3 2 12% 14% 25% 63% 4 1 0 0 1% 0% 0% 4% 5 2 1 0 2% 4% 0% 12.5% 3-5 11 3 0 13% 14% 0% 58% 6 2 1 2 2% 4% 25% 21% 4-6 5 2 1 6% 7% 13% 33% 7 17 4 1 20% 18% 13% 92% 8 6 6 0 7% 21% 0% 50% 5-8 1 0 0 1% 0% 0% 4% 3-9 16 6 1 16% 21% 13% 96% 7-9 4 2 0 4% 7% 0% 25% Total 86 28 8 %

TIME PERIOD 2 1. Compare and contrast the New England colonies with those in the Chesapeake region by 1700, include social, economic, political, and religious similarities, differences and developments. 2. Compare and contrast the relationship of colonists and Native Americans in New England, the Chesapeake, Spanish SW, New York, and New France. Be sure to include the influence of religion on each. 3. How did each of the following reflect tensions in colonial society: Bacon s Rebellion Pueblo Revolt Salem Witch Trials Stono Rebellion 4. How did each of the following impact colonial North American development from 1620-1776: Puritanism The Enlightenment 1 st Great Awakening

TIME PERIOD 3 ESSAYS 1. Evaluate the extent to which the French and Indian War marked a turning point in American relations with Great Britain. 2. Evaluate the extent to which the adoption of the Constitution marked a change from the Articles of Confederation. 3. Analyze the contributions of each in the shaping of a stable American government: - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - George Washington

TIME PERIOD 4 ESSAYS 1. Compare and Contrast the Democratic Party with the Whig party of the 1830s and 1840s. 2. How did each of the following contribute to the emergence of the two party-system from 1820-1840? - Major political personalities - States rights - Economic issues 3. The Jacksonian period has been celebrated as the era of the common man. To what extent did the period live up to its characterization? 4. Compare and contrast the Jeffersonian Democrats with the Jacksonian Democrats.

TIME PERIOD 2-5 ESSAYS 1. Compare the experiences of each of the following groups of immigrants during the period of 1830-1860. - English - Irish - German 2. Analyze the political, economic and religious tensions between immigrant Roman Catholics and native-born Protestants in the US from 1830-1850. 3. Explain how and why the institution of slavery expanded from 1775-1830 despite many African American slaves earning their freedom. Analyze the responses to this expansion from both Free men and slaves. 4. Trace the development of slave culture in terms of family, music, oral traditions, and religion. 5. Compare and contrast the experiences of slaves on tobacco plantations in the early 17 th century Chesapeake regions with that of slaves on 19 th century cotton plantations in the deep south. What forces transformed the institution of slavery from the early 17 th century to the 19 th century? 6. How did industrialization impact the relationship between the northern and southern states?

TIME PERIOD 5 ESSAYS 1. Evaluate the extent to which the Mexican American War marked a turning point in the debate over slavery in the US. 2. Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of each of the following: - Missouri Compromise - Mexican War - Compromise of 1850 - Kansas- Nebraska Act 3. How did African Americans shape the course and consequence of the Civil War?

TIME PERIOD 6 ESSAYS 1. Analyze the ways in which technology, government policy, and economic conditions changed American Agriculture in the period of 1865-1900. 2. Evaluate the impact the Civil War had on the development of each of the following regions: - North - South - West 3. To what extent did the Civil War mark a turning point for the role of the Federal Government with regard to race relations, westward expansion, and economic development. 4. How and why did transportation developments cause economic growth in the US from 1860-1900?

TIME PERIOD 4-7 ESSAYS 1. Evaluate the strategies and goals of each of the following organizations with respect to advancing the interests of workers. - Knights of Labor - American Federation of Labor - Socialist Party of America - Industrial Workers of the World 2. To what extent was the labor movement more about conflict than consensus in each of the following areas: - Government - Industrialists - Organized labor 3. Compare and contrast the goals and tactics of Booker T. Washington with those of WEB DuBois.

TIME PERIOD 7 ESSAYS 1. To what extent was US expansionism of the late 19 th and early 20 th century a departure from past expansionism? 2. Assess the role of women in the reforms of the Progressive Era with regard to each of the following: - Politics - Social conditions - Labor/working conditions 3. Analyze the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts of the 1920s with regard to immigration, prohibition, and religion. 4. Describe and account for the rise of nativism in American Society from 1900-1930.

TIME PERIOD 8 ESSAYS 1. Analyze the extent to which the 1920s and 1950s were similar in TWO of the following areas. - Impact of technology - Intolerant attitudes - Literary developments 2. Analyze the extent to which TWO pf the following transformed American society in the 1960s and 1970s: - Civil Rights Movement - Antiwar movement - Women s movement 3. Between 1954 and 1975 various groups in the US engaged in protest. Analyze the reasons that protest emerged in this period for TWO of the following groups: - African Americans - College students - Latino Americans - women

AP EXAM ESSAY STATS Total questions analyzed: 125-22 DBQs - 95 LEQs - 9 short Answers