AP Historia Writing Lab

 

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  1. Compare the ways in which TWO of the following reflected tensions in colonial society.

              Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
              Pueblo Revolt (1680)
              Salem witchcraft trials (1692)
              Stono Rebellion (1739)

     
  1. Analyze the impact of the Atlantic trade routes established in the mid-1600s on economic development in the British North American colonies.  Consider the period 1650-1750.

     
  1. Although the power of the national government increased during the early republic, this development often faced serious opposition.  Compare the motives and effectiveness of those opposed to the growing power of the national government in TWO of the following:

              Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
              Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798-1799)
              Hartford Convention (1814-1815)
              Nullification Crisis (1832-1833)

     
  1. Discuss how and to what extent the definition of “limited government” changed from Jeffersonian Republicanism to Jacksonian Democracy.

     
  1. Slavery was less the cause of the Civil War than expansion of slavery into the territories. 
    Assess the validity of this statement  using your knowledge of the time period 1845-1860.

     
  1. Analyze the ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age (1865-1900).

     
  1. Identify and analyze the factors that changed the American city in the second half of the nineteenth century.

     
  1. Compare the impact of World War I and World War II on TWO of the following areas:
              government power
              social change
              the economy
              civil liberties

     
  1. How did American foreign policy change its course from that proposed by Washington in his 1796 Farewell Address?  Select TWO of the following to support your position:
              Monroe Doctrine (1823)
              Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
              Spanish-American War (1898)
              Truman Doctrine (1947)

     
  1. Analyze the ways in which TWO of the following shaped American politics after the Second World War:
              Anticommunism in the 1940s and 1950s
              The women’s liberation movement in the 1960s
               The “silent majority” in the 1970s
             

     
  1. Describe and account for changes in the American presidency between 1960 and 1975, as symbolized by Kennedy’s “Camelot,” Johnson’s “Great Society,” and Nixon’s Watergate.  In your answer, address the powers of the presidency and the role of the media.

     

 

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