"Best Of The Worst" - Quotes from AP U.S. History essays 2005

<p>My AP US teacher gave this out a couple of days ago and it gave me a good laugh. Enjoy!</p>

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<li>God wanted America to “Be all that it can be”</li>
<li>Westerners now had a safe place in which to squat down</li>
<li>If both were to become one or the other, it would affect power.</li>
<li>Southerners would stop just short of sucking money straight from the ground. </li>
<li>The American border is getting just a LITTLE too close to Mexico.</li>
<li>We were in too deep to back out - TX was filled w/ Americans!</li>
<li>John Brown was captured by Generally Lee. </li>
<li>The New England were up north with no business down south.</li>
<li>During this time, the southern states began staying in Mexico. </li>
<li>Then there were the abolisnots.
_ The fragile balance of the senate lay in the palms of the West’s expansionistic minds. </li>
<li>In the past, the west wasn’t around. </li>
<li>The South erupted with rage, but for the moment, kept it cool. </li>
<li>The seams between sections are alright tight and ready to pop!</li>
<li>There might be a little truth in the North’s conspiracy paranoia. </li>
<li>The ticking bomb of slavery was barely corralled. </li>
<li>Gaining more land comes in handy. </li>
<li>War could have been prevented if the government would have took control. </li>
<li>Their economy depended on land of which they had sucked out all the nutrients. </li>
<li>Mutual hatred was congealed into a symphony of blood!</li>
<li>The South grinned as Polk sent troops across the river and laughed in New Egglanders’ faces. </li>
<li>Many things happened during the late 1840s, including the Missouri Compromise of 1850. </li>
<li>The Donner party got stuck on a mountain path and ate one another. </li>
<li>Mexico had action with oceans. </li>
<li>The Mexican war turned out to be a sort of vacation. I actually just made that up b/c it sounds good. Tootles!</li>
<li>Many Southerners wanted to go West b/c it was in the North.</li>
<li>Issues that had been slightly bubbling came to a full boil, and soon everything would explode. </li>
<li>God didn’t want Mexicans to find gold in CA; God wanted Americans to find it. Prostitution was also a big thing for women in the West. </li>
<li>Kansas stayed in convulsions until the Civil War. </li>
<li>Slavery began after a 20-yr period of no talking. </li>
<li>Debate was fiery b/c of the revolting Texans. </li>
<li>I am so in love with God, if He told me to go West just to test me, I would go. </li>
<li>Texas was fertile…just waiting to be plowed.</li>
<li>We helped them, not to be nice, but to get their land. </li>
<li>New Englanders? Westerners? Southerners? They’re all guilty. </li>
<li>The bottom half of CA upset Southerners. </li>
<li>New Englanders weren’t affected as much by the Mexican War b/c they still wanted parts of Canada. </li>
<li>Pershing was so intellectual on getting himself out of danger. </li>
<li>By marching to the river they would get Mexico bump-up. </li>
<li>Debate helped to increase citizens’ tempers. </li>
<li>And what about the West, you say?</li>
<li>New England was pleased to hear that the country moved out and became unbalanced. </li>
<li>The sectional debates were not heated b/c the sectional leaders all died. </li>
<li>Learning about the Mexican War is like doing taxes: most people avoid it. </li>
<li>The 19th century was a period of happiness. </li>
<li>What am I doing here? I’m so bored. Tick, tock. The time is now infinity. </li>
<li>Corruption even began to occur in Kansas!</li>
<li>Sectionalism aroused many. </li>
<li>I shall write small, small like your small *****, whoever writes these AP tests should be spanked HARD. This test blows goats. </li>
<li>Peace and equality made America a more pleasant place to live. And that’s why I am going into the Science field. </li>
<li>All Parts of the country had their eyeball on the west. </li>
<li>The situation of border rufflers was made worse by a string of presidents who did nothing. </li>
<li>Polk was a dark horse in the driver’s seat. </li>
<li>They ruled like Monarchs do: they didn’t ask Farmer Bud for his opinion. </li>
<li>After the Indian showed them, tobacco became a “hit.”</li>
<li>After the American revolution, the U.S.A. immediately entered the period known as reconstruction. </li>
<li>American women did not want the “Leave it to beaver” household. </li>
<li>Basically the American revolution made the Americans more independent on themselves. They couldn’t run to Great Britain if they got in trouble now. </li>
<li>The American revolution grammatically changed American society. </li>
<li>As a result of independence, Americans became more and more American. </li>
<li>There’s no doubt that America began as a zebra among lions. </li>
<li>Our forefathers had a few hiccups regarding women’s rights. </li>
<li>Settlers breeched the Appalachian Mounties. </li>
<li>We became a union of states rather than a hodgepodge of misfits. </li>
<li>America during this time period was like a constantly changing mold of jello.</li>
<li>Due to no food, the population decreased. </li>
<li>When the revolution started in 1775, people were not relaxed. </li>
<li>People were expected to unite and hold hands. Political views were no longer limited to the mouthy affluent members of society but were voiced by the lower classes and even women. </li>
<li>Due to disagreement, some people disagreed.</li>
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<p>Haha, some of those are really funny.</p>

<p>wow, i’m amazed</p>

<p>“I shall write small, small like your small *****, whoever writes these AP tests should be spanked HARD. This test blows goats.”</p>

<p>ROFL. Whoever wrote this is my hero.</p>

<p>Haha, while obviously most of the ones mentioned were genuine mistakes, one teacher at our school talks about how he would write things sort of like the one quoted above, and then put a line through them, so they could still be seen easily, but the grader was obligated not to weigh them in the actual scoring.</p>

<p>Those were really funny. Some people can be very stupid. Although I bet that on some of the AP essays that I have written I have said some stupid things.</p>

<p>“Mutual hatred was congealed into a symphony of blood!”</p>

<p>hahaha this person sounds a little too delighted.
but you know it’s kind of reminiscent of the ridiculous american pageant metaphors, in reality…</p>