1. APUSH Essay Planning

2. # of writing questions (analyzed from 24 released exams)
Time Period
# of writing questions (analyzed from 24 released exams) %
LEQ
DBQ SA
Total (appearances out of 24 past exams) 1 2 12
14% 0%
25%
58% 3 10
12%
63% 4 1% 4% 5 2%
12.5%
3-5 11
13% 6
21%
4-6 6% 7%
33% 7 17
20%
18%
92% 8
50%
5-8
3-9 16
16%
96%
7-9
Total 86 28

3. Time Period 2
Compare and contrast the New England colonies with those in the Chesapeake region by 1700, include social, economic, political, and religious similarities, differences and developments.
Compare and contrast the relationship of colonists and Native Americans in New England, the Chesapeake, Spanish SW, New York, and New France. Be sure to include the influence of religion on each.
How did each of the following reflect tensions in colonial society:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Pueblo Revolt
Salem Witch Trials
Stono Rebellion
4. How did each of the following impact colonial North American development from :
Puritanism
The Enlightenment
1st Great Awakening

6. Time Period 3 Essays
Evaluate the extent to which the French and Indian War marked a turning point in American relations with Great Britain.
Evaluate the extent to which the adoption of the Constitution marked a change from the Articles of Confederation.
Analyze the contributions of each in the shaping of a stable American government:
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington

7. Time Period 4 Essays
Compare and Contrast the Democratic Party with the Whig party of the 1830s and 1840s.
How did each of the following contribute to the emergence of the two party-system from ?
Major political personalities
States’ rights
Economic issues
The Jacksonian period has been celebrated as the era of the common man. To what extent did the period live up to its characterization?
Compare and contrast the Jeffersonian Democrats with the Jacksonian Democrats.

8. Time Period 2-5 Essays
Compare the experiences of each of the following groups of immigrants during the period of
English
Irish
German
Analyze the political, economic and religious tensions between immigrant Roman Catholics and native-born Protestants in the US from
Explain how and why the institution of slavery expanded from despite many African American slaves earning their freedom. Analyze the responses to this expansion from both Free men and slaves.
Trace the development of slave culture in terms of family, music, oral traditions, and religion.
Compare and contrast the experiences of slaves on tobacco plantations in the early 17th century Chesapeake regions with that of slaves on 19th century cotton plantations in the deep south. What forces transformed the institution of slavery from the early 17th century to the 19th century?
How did industrialization impact the relationship between the northern and southern states?

9. Time Period 5 essays
Evaluate the extent to which the Mexican American War marked a turning point in the debate over slavery in the US.
Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of each of the following:
- Missouri Compromise
- Mexican War
Compromise of 1850
Kansas- Nebraska Act
How did African Americans shape the course and consequence of the Civil War?

10. Time period 6 essays
Analyze the ways in which technology, government policy, and economic conditions changed American Agriculture in the period of
Evaluate the impact the Civil War had on the development of each of the following regions:
North
South
West
To what extent did the Civil War mark a turning point for the role of the Federal Government with regard to race relations, westward expansion, and economic development.
How and why did transportation developments cause economic growth in the US from ?

11. Time period 4-7 essays
Evaluate the strategies and goals of each of the following organizations with respect to advancing the interests of workers.
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Socialist Party of America
Industrial Workers of the World
To what extent was the labor movement more about conflict than consensus in each of the following areas:
Government
Industrialists
Organized labor
3. Compare and contrast the goals and tactics of Booker T. Washington with those of WEB DuBois.

12. Time period 7 essays
To what extent was US expansionism of the late 19th and early 20th century a departure from past expansionism?
Assess the role of women in the reforms of the Progressive Era with regard to each of the following:
Politics
Social conditions
Labor/working conditions
Analyze the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts of the 1920s with regard to immigration, prohibition, and religion.
Describe and account for the rise of nativism in American Society from

13. Time period 8 Essays
Analyze the extent to which the 1920s and 1950s were similar in TWO of the following areas.
Impact of technology
Intolerant attitudes
Literary developments
Analyze the extent to which TWO pf the following transformed American society in the 1960s and 1970s:
Civil Rights Movement
Antiwar movement
Women’s movement
Between 1954 and 1975 various groups in the US engaged in protest. Analyze the reasons that protest emerged in this period for TWO of the following groups:
African Americans
College students
Latino Americans
women
Discuss with respect to TWO of the following, the view that the 1960s represented a period of profound cultural change:
Education
Gender Roles
Music
Race Relations

14. Time Period 8
Analyze the ways in which the Vietnam War heightened social, political, and economic tensions in the US. Focus your answer on the period from
Describe and account for the changes in the American presidency between 1960 and 1975 as symbolized by:
Kennedy’s Camelot
Johnson’s Great Society
Nixon’s Watergate
3. To what extent did the social and political struggles 1960s and 1970s mark a turning point for each of the following groups:
African Americans
Asian Americans
Latinos
Native Americans
Women
Analyze the ways in which TWO of the following contributed to the changes in women’s lives in the US in the mid-20th century:
Wars
Literature
Popular culture
Medical/technical advances