AP U.S. HistoryScoring GuideUnit 2 Progress Check: FRQ Part ACopyright © 2017. The College Board. These materials are part of a College Board program. Use or distribution of these materials online orin print beyond your school’s participation in the program is prohibited.Page 1 of 51.In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; anoutline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.“Your petitioners beg leave humbly to inform your Majesty, that the lands, to the west of the[Appalachian] mountains, are extremely fertile, the climate very fine and healthy, and thewaters of the Mississippi [River], and those of the Potomack [River in Virginia], are onlyseparated by one small ridge of mountains. . . ; British goods may be carried at little expense,and afforded reasonably to the Indians in those parts, [if] the lands to the west of the saidmountains were settled, and a fort erected in some proper place there. . . ; if your petitionersmeet with that success they have the greatest reason to expect, it will . . . extend yourMajesty’s empire in America; . . . and, in a short space of time very considerably increase yourMajesty’s revenue. . . .”“Your petitioners, for these great and national ends and purposes . . . have entered intopartnership, by the name of the Ohio company, to settle these [lands] to the west of the saidmountains. . . . Your petitioners . . . most humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciouslypleased to encourage this their said undertaking, by giving instructions to your governor ofVirginia to grant to your petitioners a tract . . . of 500,000 acres of land.”John Hanbury, London merchant, and colonial Virginian investors, petition to King George II ofGreat Britain, delivered to the king’s ministers in 1748Using the excerpt, answer (a), (b), and (c).Briefly identify ONE cause of the development depicted in the petition.Briefly describe ONE argument made in the petition.Briefly describe ONE similarity between the British-Native American relationsdescribed in the petition and French-Native American relations.Please respond on separate paper, following directions from your teacher. Show
Thirty-five MCQs pertaining to the time period 1491 to 1945 The APUSH practice exam appearing below consists of thirty-five multiple-choice questions. All thirty-five questions pertain to the time period 1491 to 1945 (aka P1-P7), with questions 1–13 found in the 2020 CED and questions 14–35 found in the 2017 CED. My students will take this practice exam in mid-March. They will have thirty-five minutes to complete. Those who correctly answer 26 (75%) of the thirty-five questions within thirty-five minutes will earn at least a 4 on the May Exam, I’m predicting. The Practice ExamQuestions 1–4 refer to the map below Q1.
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Sidenote #1Click here to view another thirty-five multiple-choice question practice exam, with all questions also pertaining to the time period 1491 to 1945 (aka P1-P7), and with questions 1–13 found in the 2020 CED and questions 14–35 found in the 2017 CED. Sidenote #2In the past three years, my students most often missed the following: Q2.
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Sidenote #3This blog post is only being shared with the students I teach and tutor, the teachers belonging to the APUSH Online Teacher Community (OTC), and the teachers who have requested access to my APUSH P1-P9 slideshows, tests, word banks, and SAQs. Which of the following best describes the relationship of ideas such as those in the excerpt to the broader progressive reform movement?Which of the following best describes the relationship of ideas such as those in the excerpt to the broader Progressive reform movement of the era? The ideas in the excerpt challenged the racial stereotypes held by many White Progressive reformers.
Which of the following ways best explains how the United States attempted to influence the outside world following the conclusion of the First World War *?Which of the following ways best explains how the United States attempted to influence the outside world following the conclusion of the First World War? It used trade and investment in order to maintain international connections.
What was the lost generation Apush?The “Lost Generation” was a group of writers who were disillusioned with 1920s American society. The significant writers you need to know about are Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his novels Babbitt and Main Street, Lewis criticized the materialism, consumerism, and conformity of Roaring Twenties society.
Which of the following contexts best explains the increase in violent conflicts in the western United States?The increase in the violent conflicts in the western United States in the late 1800 was due to the ban on the immigration from eastern Asia.
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