About the Test
• Location & Date: Aux Gym @ 7:15AM on Friday 5/8
• Bring
– Several sharpened #2 pencils with erasers
– Black/Blue pens
– Conventional watch
– Photo ID
– A note if you are leaving after the exam (no phone calls)
DO NOT BRING
ANY electronic devices, books, paper, watches that
make noise, food or drink
Exam Format
Section I
55 Multiple Choice Test
55 mins
4 Short Answer Questions
50 mins
40% of grade
20% of grade
Section II
1 DBQ (not period 1 or 9)
55 mins
1 Long Essay (choice of 2)
35 mins
Total
3 hours 15 mins
25% of grade
15% of grade
Test Taking Suggestions
• Multiple Choice
– Question sets – start with the easiest for you
– Not chronological and not increasing in difficulty
– Fill in the scantron as you go along (carefully!)
– Guess if you must and don’t change answers
• Short Answers
– Start with the easiest
– Label each part and answer sequentially
– Directly answer the question (no fillers)
– Write in full sentences
– Show you know some history!
DBQ Essay (“COATS”)
Rubric
Points
Thesis must do more than restate the question
1
Analysis of Analyzes the content of the all or all but one the documents
documents AND one of the following (Context, Audience, POV or Purpose)
3
Outside • Offers historical examples beyond the documents to support
Information
the thesis
1
Contextualization
Synthesis
• Connects the historical phenomena to relevant broader
historical events
1
• Recognizes and accounts for contrary historical evidence
• Connects the topic to other periods or geographic areas
1
DBQ Essay
Compare and contrast views of United States overseas expansion in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Evaluate how
understandings of national identity, at the time, shaped these views.
• Outside Information
– Monroe Doctrine, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy.
• Contextualization
– Social Darwinism, Jim Crow, Social Gospel, Progressivism
– Yellow journalism, Philippine Insurgency, Roosevelt
Corollary, missionary activity.
• Synthesis
– Linking the argument to Washington’s Farewell Address;
manifest destiny, rise of US power after WWII
Long Essay (“THES”)
Rubric
Points
Thesis must do more than restate the question
1
Evidence Uses specific evidence to clearly and consistently supports thesis
•
•
Historical
•
thinking skill
•
2
Continuity and Change (do both)
Comparison (similarities and differences)
Causation (causes and/or effects of historical development)
Periodization (how was this the historical development similar and
different from events that preceded and followed it)
2
• Uses an added category of analysis
Synthesis • Connects the argument to another historical period or geographic
areas
1
Long Essay
Evaluate the extent to which trans-Atlantic interactions from 1600 to 1763
contributed to maintaining continuity as well as fostering change in labor
systems in the British North American colonies
• Argument
– Demand for labor but a change in labor systems
– Labor systems changed but the conditions of the labor system remained the
same
• Support for Argument
– Coercive labor (Indentured servitude, slavery), Bacon’s Rebellion, Middle
passage, Cash crops (indigo, tobacco, rice), ideas of racial superiority
• Application of Historical Thinking Skills
– The high demand for labor in the colonies (continuity) the shift to African
slaves (change)
• Synthesis
– Exploitation of labor (connect to late 19th C industrialization
– Race-base labor system (connect to cause of Civil War)
1600-1776
1776-1789
1789-1828
1828-1836
1840’s
1861-1865
1865-1877
1865-1890
1870-1896
1870-1900
1898-1920
1900-1920
1917-1918
1918-1924
1919-1929
1929-1940
1941-1945
1948-1990
1954-1972
1963-1968
1968-1974
1974-1980
1980-1988
A. Great Depression & New Deal
B. Reconstruction & Southern Redemption
C. Reagan & New Federalism
D. Gilded Age
E. First Red Scare
F. World War II
G. American Imperialism
H. Colonial Era
I. Civil Rights Movement
J. Granger & Populist Movements
K. Nixon & Watergate
L. Settlement of the West
M. Roaring Twenties
N. World War I
O. Ford and Carter Presidencies
P. Formation of the US Government
Q. Federalist/Early National Era
R. Progressive Movement
S. Age of Jackson
T. Cold War
U. Age of Manifest Destiny
V. Civil War
W. LBJ & The Great Society
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