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<p>What on earth are you talking about?</p>
<p>@ lantzk: most West Coast schools I know get out in early to mid June. And my class only covered up to Nixon.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ll have to ask my AP US teacher about the specifics, it’s been a while since he talked about it.</p>
<p>They definitely highlighted many African-American themes. Coincidental? I think not. They try to associate focuses with the times.</p>
<p>Sort of like the Olympic essay last year in World.</p>
<p>I don’t think it was a coincidence. Crash Course even said there was going to be lots of African American related questions</p>
<p>There are ALWAYS lots of: African American/Women/Immigrants on the AP US exam. It rotates.</p>
<p>Yeah I remember the Olympic essay. It was random at first but after reading the documents it was really easy.</p>
<p>Overall I’m pretty confident about this one - essays were good, multiple choice not so much. Oh well.</p>
<p>MC was okay. Skipped a few, guessed a few, knew the majority. </p>
<p>DBQ wasn’t too bad, though I really didn’t know how to wrap my facts around the last part of the question.</p>
<p>FRQ’s were pretty easy. The first was really easy, the second one was okay.</p>
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<p>Hi, my school gets out at the end of June. [Note the location on the left]</p>
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<p>I didn’t take the test this year, but it’s always East Coast centric, because most of US History took place on the East Coast. Heck, this country is still very East Coast centric. How else can you explain the Tribune Co.'s view that the LA Times should be an entertainment rag? How else can you explain John Calipari’s job at Memphis as being “out west” (Yes I’m aware he has since changed jobs)? How else can you explain the fact that a small group of schools in New England mostly founded for religious purposes are now worshiped as God’s gift to higher education?</p>
<p>Anyway, I’d like to agree with anyone else that said that the test was easy and you shouldn’t be worried.</p>
<p>Yeah, the final response essay was extremely easy. I almost fell out of my chair when I read it. </p>
<p>BTW, I expected a lot more on court decisions and the 1850-1900 range. Expansion was basically nonexistent.</p>
<p>I certainly did not appreciate that exam. I didn’t know most of the MC questions, and I basically BS’ed everything else.</p>
<p>…That’s what we get from a “teacher” who lets boring movies do all the teaching for him.</p>
<p>I felt very prepared, feeling pretty confident about my essays. LOVED #2. #5, I only knew one of the two so I made up a little thing for the second</p>
<p>It’s past 48 hours so we can talk about this a bit.</p>
<p>DBQ question was extremely easy IMO. Basically I had some slaves being freed due to their involvement in the Revolution and the ideals of the northern/New England states. Also the beginning of industry which made farm work less important allowing slaves to go to the cities. The expansion of slavery was due to western expansion and opening up new farm lands IMO. For both I had the attitudes of working hard to overcome slavery/racism. Also Christianity as a source of release.</p>
<p>I think I did ok on number 2. Just talked about taxes, tariffs, and embargo. Also the British preventing the colonists from expanding west.</p>
<p>I did 5 and thought it was insanely easy. Did African Americans and them moving north to urban areas to help with the thousands of factory owners. Asian Americans obviously being put in internment camps and losing all of their previous belongings. African Americans were being more integrated in society while Asian Americans were being more segregated.</p>
<p>What was the topic of the DBQ? The only thing that is tricky about the APUSH DBQ is that you have to know a little about the subject. Fortunately they usually don’t give arcane topics.</p>
<p>It was a 1775-1830 slave issue. A good amount were freed but the institution of slavery also expanded. Why for both. Also, how did the slaves and freed slaves deal with the issues presented to them.</p>
<p>My sister never studied for her APUSH, Psych, or Human Geo tests. She got 5’s on all of them.</p>
<p>I studied like mad for my APUSH test. I got a miserable 4. But I was a really bad APUSH student and stopped reading the text book after like 1940. One of the essays was on a war I literally knew nothing about.</p>
<p>So I guess you could mention the decline of profitability until the invention of the cotton gin, and that would be your outside info. Then you use the documents, take the 7 and run.</p>
<p>IDK if that would work though. They used a chart basically implying that slavery was taking off throughout the south.</p>
<p>What were the dates on the chart though? Anyway, unless Eli Whitney was mentioned in one of the docs, that counts as outside info, you get your point for using it, and you can then just write what the docs tell you to write.</p>
<p>was paternalism a valid topic to talk about?
after the MC, the sugar rush i was having kind of gave away so just did a massive brain dump for the essays. =/
btw, did anyone take the Euro test afterwords? it seemed so much easier.</p>
<p>ya, it wasn’t too bad. i just joined the thread, but i though MC was do-able, and essays shouldn’t have been all that bad either.</p>