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AP WEBSITE QUESTIONS

3. What is the format of your exam: how many questions and what types of questions?
 * The AP US History exam is made up of multiple choice questions, and response questions. It consists of 80 multiple choice questions 1 document based essay(part A), and 2 standard essays (part B and C). The AP exam is made up of about 55 minutes of multiple choice and 130 minutes of response question. The response questions starts with 15 minute reading section and students are to use this time to analyze, and think of ways to answer their document based question(DBQ). The given time to write the response for the DBQ is 45 minutes, which is part A of the reponse question. Parts B and C of the response questions are standard essays. Students choose the essay questions they want to answer in parts B and C. it is suggested that students use 5 minutes to plan and 30 minutes to write their answers. The multiple choice questions and the response section include questions from the early European to the Americas to the Present. The multiple choice questions mostly cover material from the 19th and 20th century.

4. What content area makes up the largest part of your exam? What area makes up the least?
 * I think the response questions make up the largest part of the AP US History Exam because it takes up the most time and includes a writing portion. The multiple choice questions make up least part of the exam.

5. List three topics you are most interested in studying in this AP course. Explain what interests you about these topics
 * I am mostly interested in learning about War and Diplomacy because I like learning about wars, I like learning about the reasons, the solutions, and the affects and how the wars end. Secondly I am interested in learning about Slavery and Its Legacies in North America because Slavery played a huge part in the civil war and I like learning about how slaves lived, and how they were treated and how it affected other ways to farm. Last but least I am interested in learning about Colonial North America 1690-1754 because I love the women movements because I strongly believe that women should have the same rights as men.

6. Write at least three questions you have about the AP exam and process.
 * If a person's writing isn't strong would it be a risk to take AP classes?
 * If you take an AP class and you get the opportunity to use it the credit as a college credit how does work exactly?
 * Do AP classes take midterms, and finals or do students only have to take the huge test at the end of the year?

8. Read through this article. In one to two paragraphs, summarize your thoughts on this article. Do you agree with the main argument? Why or why not? Questions/Comments/Connections? What role did slavery play in the origins of American history? Why was it called the “peculiar institution?”


 * I agree with Morgan's argument, the American slave system had roots from the Greek and the Roman slave systems but it had it's differences. The American slave system came to be based on race but the Greek and the Roman slave system were based on the expansion of the empires. Any person from any race could be a slave. I never really thought where the roots of slavery come from because I considered the prisoners taken from war by the Greeks and Romans as prisoners of war but it never connected that they were also slaves. I know slavery is inhumane and for person to think they can own a person -disregarding culture influences- is just wrong. Slavery played a major role in the origins of America because it was used as a problem for the country to figure out what it wanted to stand for, whether to stand for slavery and treat people like property or stand against it and give people their rights as free men. I think that slavery is sometimes called "the peculiar institution" because no one thought it was wrong for a long time and even after people started speaking and protesting against slavery they still depended on it. Slavery was an unusual custom that justified the ownership, belittling, and humiliation of a whole race.