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This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).

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Chapter 10 American Pageant 15th Edition

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Politics of the United States
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Presidency of George Washington
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james madison
Vice Presidents of the United States
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alexander hamilton
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Chapter 10 ? Launching the New Ship of State I. Growing Pains In 1789, the new U.S. Constitution was launched, and the population was doubling every 20 years. America?s population was still 90% rural, with 5% living west of the Appalachians. Vermont became the 14th state in 1791, and Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio (states where trans-Appalachian overflow was concentrated) became states soon after. Visitors looked down upon the crude, rough pioneers, and these western people were restive and dubiously loyal at best. In the twelve years after American independence, laws had been broken and a constitution had been completely scrapped and replaced with a new one, a government that left much to be desired.

America's History 8th edition Chapter 3 Outline

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AP United States History Chapter 3 Outline Lancaster Conference Conference between Iroquois and the Colonists Colonists asked for help from the Native Americans Land agreement Natives now poor, had to give land for merchandise Britain going to war with France Colonists asked for the help of the Iroquois to fight the French Lancaster Conference proved how the British Colonies, like those of France and Spain relied ever more heavily on alliances with Native Americans as they sought to extend their power in North America. Natives created tribes that allowed them to regroup in the face of population decline Colonies to the Empire Before 1660- England governed New England and Chesapeake colonies haphazardly Societies functioned as they wished Later on, British rule became more strict

1992 AP US History DBQ

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I The College Board Advanced Placement Examination UNITED STATES HISTORY Section I1 Part A (Suggested writing time-40 minutes) I Percent of Section I1 score-50 Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-I and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that both= key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period. 1. To what extent did the natural environment shape the development of the West beyond the Mississippi and the lives of those who lived and settled there? How important were other factors? I

1991 AP US History DBQ

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France
Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
Modern history
Treaty of Versailles
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League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
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Lodge Reservations
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The College Board Advanced Placement Examination UNITED STATES HISTORY SECTION 11 (Suggested writing t i m M 0 minutes) Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-I and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period. 1. It was the strength of the opposition forces, both liberal and conservative, rather than the ineptitude and stubbornness of President Wilson that led to the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1917-1921, assess the validity of this statement.

1990 AP US History DBQ

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American Enlightenment
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United States Declaration of Independence
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The College Board Advanced Placement Examination UNITED STATES HISTORY SECTION I1 (Suggested writing time--40 minutes) Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period. 1. Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. In light of the following documents and your knowledge of the 1820's and 1830's, to what extent -

1989 AP US History DBQ

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Pan-Africanism
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civil rights movement
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Negro
Niagara Movement
Atlanta compromise
Carter G. Woodson
The Souls of Black Folk
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The College Board Advanced Placement Examination UNITED STATES HISTORY SECTION I1 (Suggested writing time--40 minutes)' Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-J d your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces of evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period. H , - 1. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

1988 AP US History DBQ

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world war II
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Second Sino-Japanese War
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The College Board Advanced Placement Examination AMERICAN HISTORY SECTION I1 (Suggested writing time--40 minutes) Directiow: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces of evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period. 1. The United States decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a diplomatic measurg calculated to intimidate the Soviet Union in the post-Second-World-War era rather than a strictly military measure designed to force Japan's unconditional surrender.

1987 AP US History DBQ

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History of the United States
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james madison
Slavery in the United States
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The College Board Advanced Placement Examination AMERICAN HISTORY SECTION I1 (Suggested writing time-40 minutes) Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your . interpretation of Documents A-I your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces of evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period. 1. "By the 1850's the Constitution, originally framed as an instrument of national unity, had become a source of sectional discord and tension and ultimately contributed to the failure of the union it had created." Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1850-1861,,assess the validity of

1986 AP US History DBQ

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Year of birth unknown
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, I The College Board Advanced Placement Examination AMERICAN HISTORY SECTION I1 (Suggested writing time--40 minutes) Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-I and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces oi-evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period. 1. The 1920's were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested? I Document A I Source: Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 1922

1985 AP US History DBQ

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The College Board Advanced Placement Examination AMERICAN HISTORY SECTION I1 (Suggested writing time-40 minutes) Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-H &your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces of evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period. 1. "From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government." Using the documents and your knowledge of the period, evaluate this statement. Document A I ' I Source: Letter from the Rhode Island Assembly to Congress (November 30,1782) I -

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