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Responding to a short-answer or extended-response question

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Compare identify similarities and differences

Describe give characteristics

Explain make clear or give reasons

Evaluate make a judgment on the worth of …

Identify name something

Summarize restate in a shorter form

Support give facts/examples to justify a conclusion

Sample Ext Response Q. – 4 pts.

Historians often cite the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany as a primary cause of the eventual outbreak of World War II. Summarize two provisions of the Versailles Treaty relating to Germany and discuss how each helped lead to World War II.

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Summarize one provision of the Versailles Treaty

How did this lead to WWII?

Summarize a second provision of the Versailles Treaty

How did this lead to WWII?

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Two provisions of the Versailles Treaty relating to Germany were taking over the Jews a putting them in concentration camps. Many didn’t agree with that. Another was putting Hitler in power. Other countries didn’t agree to that thus began WWII.

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The treaty of Versailles ended WWI with Germany agreeing to give back a fair amount of land they had taken from the surrounding countries. Instead they began to grow in power witch adventually led to Hitler’s Nazi party.

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lose of land and dept which lend to a disprission and Germany blamed the world.

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Sample Short Response Q. – 2 pts.The Industrial Revolution brought about major changes not only in cities, but in rural America as well. Before machines were used, one farmer could harvest about 7.5 acres of wheat per year. With machines, he could harvest wheat on 135 acres. Scientists also developed new kinds of wheat seeds that could survive northern winters. These developments were examples of what was happening in many areas of agriculture.Explain two additional ways farming changed as a result of the Industrial Revolution.

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We use machines to harvest wheat and machines to plow the ground.

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As the industrial revolution went on farming went from being “a mom and pop” operation to big business. Big businesses bought up farms and used the land to farm on. Though less people worked on the farms, more people were supplied goods.

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The producers prices went up and they stop planting crops.

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Write your own definition of each

command

economy

constitutional

monarchyapartheid

Enlightenment Cold War containment

Write your own definition of each

imperialismmarket

economy

monetary

policy

traditional economy

urbanization democracy

Link to Circular Flow Model

The three basic economic questions that all economic systems answer:

•What to produce?•How is it produced?•Who gets it?