Prompt PressureEach slide will contain an old APUSH Exam

FRQ or DBQ prompt. When the prompt is show, your team will

have six (6) minutes to brainstorm background info and create a ONE SENTENCE THESIS STATEMENT on the prompt.

Prompt 1 – The Colonial PeriodHow did the economic, geographic, and social

factors encourage the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies between 1607 and 1775?

Economic- reduced migration, free labor, triangular tradeGeographic- tobacco, rice plantationsSocial – Slave laws, Bacon’s Rebellion

Prompt 2 – Revolutionary War/Constitutional Period“The history of the present King of great

Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.” Evaluate this accusation made against George III in the Declaration of Independence.True: Proclamation Line of 1763, Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Intolerable Acts

Prompt 3: Federalist Era, Jeffersonian Era, Era of Good FeelingsThe Bill of Rights did not come from a desire to

protect the liberties won in the American Revolution, but rather from a fear of the powers of the new federal government. Assess the validity of this statement.

Anti-Federalist Argument: BOR stopped the Constitutional gov’t from acting in a tyrannical manner. Americans fought the Revolutionary War to escape British tyranny.

Prompt 4: Jacksonian Democracy, Social Reforms, Manifest DestinyDiscuss the impact of territorial expansion on

national unity between 1800 and 1850.

Louisiana Purchase (1800), Missouri Compromise (1820), Texas (1844), Oregon Territory (1846) Mexican Cession (1848)

Impact: SECTIONALISM, Wilmot Proviso, Abolitionism,

Prompt 5: Civil War and ReconstructionAnalyze the ways in which controversy over

the extension of slavery into western territories contributed to the coming of the Civil War. Confine your answer to the period 1845-1861.Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Underground Railroad, Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), “Bleeding Kansas”, John Brown, Lecompton Constitution, Lincoln-Douglas Debated (1858), Election of 1860, Crittenden Compromise

Prompt 6: Gilded Age, Populism, ExpansionismAnalyze the ways in which the farmers and

industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age (1865-1900)

Grange Movement, Munn v. Illinois, Greenback Party, Populist Party, Omaha

Platform, William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold Speech”, Free Silver Movement

Prompt 7: ProgressivismAnalyze the roles that women played in

Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920.

Women’s suffrage, NAWSA, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, National Woman’s Party, militant suffragists, Nineteenth Amendment (1920), educational equality, liberalizing marriage and divorce laws, reducing workplace discrimination, right to own property.

Prompt 8: World War I/Roaring TwentiesIn what ways did economic conditions and

developments in the arts and entertainment help create the reputation of the 1920s as the Roaring twenties?

Economic: Consumerism, advertising, electric appliances, automobileEntertainment: Hollywood movies, baseball, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey,, jazz, Cotton ClubArts: Harlem Renaissance, Frank Lloyd Wright, functionalism, “lost generation”

Prompt 9: New Deal and World War IICompare and contrast the programs and

policies designed by reformers of the Progressive era to those designed by reformers of the New Deal period. Confine your answer to programs and policies that addressed the needs of those living in poverty.

Progressive Era:Muckrakers, Square Deal

Regulation of IndustryMore gov’t involvement in business

New Deal:3 R’s, Brain Trust, Alphabet Soup

Regulation of IndustryMore gov’t involvement in businessCreate jobs, stimulate economy.

Prompt 10: Cold War 1945-1960Compare and contrast the United States

foreign policy after the First World War and after the second World War. Consider the periods 1919-1928 and 1945-1950.

Differences: Post WWI: Isolationism; Congress refusal to ratify Treaty of Versailles, join LONPost WWII: Involvement, superpower, United Nations, NATO

Prompt 11: Modern AmericaIn what ways did the Great Society resemble

the New Deal in its origins, goals, and social and political legacy?

More gov’t control in the economy, lowered unemployment, increased gov’t spending and intervention in American’s lives.

Medicare, Medicaid, National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, public housing funding.