AP+REVIEW

All of the following essays were used on APUSH tests. My advice is to choose 2 or 3 from each unit and, using your notes, book, and memory, create a good outline for each. There's a good chance that you'll have an essay on the test that touches on one of these subjects, and you'll be well on your way.

__**UNIT 1 (Chapters 1-5)**__

What were their aspirations, and to what extent were those aspirations fulfilled during the seventeenth century? institutions. To what extent and in what ways do you agree or disagree with this statement? > individuals, events, or movements in American religion during the seventeenth and > eighteenth centuries. of British North America than did religious concerns. Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to economic and religious concerns. __**UNIT 2 (Chapters 6-9)**__ profound shift in the way many Americans thought and felt about the British government and their colonial governments. Assess the validity of this statement in view of the political and constitutional debates of these decades. neglect influenced the development of American society as illustrated in the following: Legislative assemblies Commerce Religion > colonies prior to 1700. America charged Great Britain with violating the ideals of rule of law, self government, and, ultimately, equality of rights. Yet the colonists themselves violated these ideals in their treatment of blacks, Native Americans, and even poorer classes of white settlers. Assess the validity of this view. usurpation, all having in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States.” Evaluate this accusation made against George III in the Declaration of Independence. in American political ideas and institutions. Confine your answer to the period 1775 to 1800. politics in the 1790’s. political, economic, and constitutional issues that troubled the British government’s relations with the colonies prior to the Revolution. Assess the validity of this generalization. actual threats from Europe. Assess the validity of this generalization with reference to United States foreign policy on TWO major issues during the period from 1789 – 1825. > community contributed to the development of a distinctive American national > consciousness. Assess the validity of this statement. > pessimistic views of human nature and society. Assess the validity of this statement > in reference to reform movements of THREE of the following areas: > Education Utopian experiments, Temperance Penal Institutions, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Women’s Rights > democracy between 1820 and 1840. > Jacksonian economic policy Changes in electoral politics > <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Second Great Awakening <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Westward movement <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-US;">Major political personalities States’ rights Economic issues sparked American economic growth in the first half of the nineteenth century. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Assess the validity of this statement. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">community contributed to the development of a distinctive American national <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">consciousness. Assess the validity of this statement. > pessimistic views of human nature and society. Assess the validity of this statement > <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">in reference to reform movements of THREE of the following areas: > <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msospacerun: yes;">1) Education 2)Temperance 3) Women's Rights 4)Utopian Experiments 5) Penal Institutions in fact, an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others. Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to American expansionism in the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">1840’s. > <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">James K. Polk. To what extent did their policies strengthen the United States? generalization for TWO of the following aspects of southern life from about 1840 to <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">1860: political, social, economic, and intellectual life. > <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">religious, and economic arguments to defend the institution of slavery. > <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">the following in the United States between 1865 and 1880: 1) Agriculture 2)Labor 3)Transportation 4)Industrialization <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> that was created in the United States during the late nineteenth century: 1)Andrew Carnegie 2)Eugene V Debs 3)Horatio Alger 4)Booker T Washington 5)Ida M Tarbell From the 1840’s through the 1890’s, women’s activities in the intellectual, social,    economic and political spheres effectively challenged traditional attitudes about  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> women’s place in society. Assess the validity of this statement.    Although the economic growth of the United States between 1860 and 1900 has been attributed to a governmental policy of laissez-faire, it was in fact encouraged and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> sustained by direct governmental intervention. Assess the validity of this statement. Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist movement in the late <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> nineteenth century. How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> affected by technological developments and government actions? Compare the debates that took place over American expansionism in the 1840’s with those that took place in the 1890’s, analyzing the similarities and differences in the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> debates of the two eras.
 * In the seventeenth century, New England Puritans tried to create a model society.
 * Between 1607 and 1763, Americans gained control of their political and economic
 * To what extent and why did religious toleration increase in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Answer with reference to Three
 * Throughout the colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the settling
 * From 1600 – 1763, several European nations vied for control of the North American continent. Why did England win the struggle?
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">In the two decades before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, a
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">For the period before 1750, analyze the ways in which Britain’s policy of salutary
 * Analyze the extent to which religious freedom existed in the British North American
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">During the seventeenth and increasingly in the eighteenth century, British colonists in
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">“This history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">Analyze the extent to which the American Revolution represented a radical alteration
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">Evaluate the relative importance of domestic and foreign affairs in shaping American
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">Between 1783 and 1800, the new government of the United States faced the same
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">Early United States foreign policy was primarily a defensive reaction to perceived or
 * __Unit 3 (Chapters 10-13)__**
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">Andrew Jackson’s election as President marked the beginning of a new age in <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">American political history. Assess the validity of this generalization.
 * In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American cultural and intellectual
 * American reform movements between 1820 and 1860 reflected both optimistic and
 * Analyze the extent to which two of the following influenced the development of
 * How did two of the following contribute to the reemergence of a two party system <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">in the period 1820 to 1840?
 * Developments in transportation, rather than in manufacturing and agriculture,
 * __Unit 4 (Chapters 14 - 17)__**
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American cultural and intellectual
 * American reform movements between 1820 and 1860 reflected both optimistic and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Discuss the impact of the “transportation revolution,” 1820 – 1860, on the U.S.
 * Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was,
 * Compare the expansionist foreign policies of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msospacerun: yes;">Discuss the impact of territorial expansion on national unity between 1800 and 1850.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msospacerun: yes;">Slavery was the dominating reality of all southern life. Assess the validity of this
 * Analyze the ways in which supporters of slavery in the nineteenth century used legal,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msospacerun: yes;"> Discuss the political, economic, and social reforms introduced in the South between <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">1864 and 1877. To what extent did these reforms survive the Compromise of 1877?
 * Analyze the economic consequences of the Civil War with respect to any TWO of
 * __Unit 5 (Chapters 18 - 20)__**
 * Compare and contrast the attitudes of THREE of the following toward the wealth
 * Analyze the impact of any TWO of the following on the American industrial worker <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> between 1865 and 1900: 1)Government Actions 2)Immigration 3)Labor Unions 4)Technology Changes
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