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American History: Comparative Analysis and Perspectives

Please select three of the following questions and use your knowledge of American History to answer them. Each answer should be at least one REALLY LONG paragraph, or a few shorter paragraphs. Make sure you use the APUSH Long Essay Question (LEQ) Scoring Rubric included as a guide to help structure your responses.

Question 1

Short answer

Which was a bigger contributor, economics or religion, to the differences among the 3 colonial regions during the 17th and early 18th centuries?

Question 2

Short answer

Was the American Revolution really about independence, or was it just a conflict started by a few rich guys who didn’t want to pay their taxes? Explain your answer with historical evidence.

Question 3

Short answer

Was western expansion good or bad? Explain your answer with historical evidence.

Question 4

Short answer

How successful were the social reform movements of the early 19th Century? Explain your answer with historical evidence.

Question 5

Short answer

If one were to accept the premise that the vast majority of white Americans didn’t really care about African-Americans then why was the main cause of the Civil War slavery?

Question 6

Short answer

Based on what we’ve studied so far, which group of people was treated worse, African-Americans or Native Americans? Explain your answer with historical evidence.

Question 7

Short answer

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