2016年AP美国历史简答题真题+答案+PDF下载

Directions: Read each question carefully and write your responses in the Section I, Part B: Short Answer booklet on the lined pages provided for that question.

Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable. You may plan your answers in this exam booklet, but no credit will be given for notes written in this booklet. Only your responses on the designated pages of the Section I, Part B: Short Answer booklet will be scored.

1.Usingthegraphabove,answer(a),(b),and(c).

a) Briefly explain how ONE major historical factor contributed to the change depicted on the graph.

b)Briefly explain ONE specific historical effect that resulted from the change depicted on the graph.

c)Briefly explain ANOTHER specific historical effect that resulted from the change depicted on the graph.

2. Answer (a), (b), and (c).

a) Briefly explain ONE important similarity between the goals of the Spanish and the English in establishingcolonies in the Americas prior to 1700.

b) Briefly explain ONE important difference between the goals of the Spanish and the English in establishingcolonies in the Americas prior to 1700.

c) Briefly explain ONE way in which the difference you indicated in (b) contributed to a difference in thedevelopment of Spanish and English colonial societies.

“They were aggressive men, as were the first feudal barons; sometimes they were lawless; in important crises, nearly all of them tended to act without those established moral principles which fixed more or less the conduct of the common people of the community. . . . These men were robber barons as were their medieval counterparts, the dominating figures of an aggressive economic age. . . . Under their hands, the renovation of our economic life proceeded relentlessly; large-scale production replaced the scattered,decentralized mode of production; industrial enterprises became more concentrated, more ‘efficient’technically, and essentially ‘cooperative,’ where they had been purely individualistic and lamentably wasteful.”

Matthew Josephson, historian, 1934

“What really lifted the giants above the rest was the ability to envision where the world, or their part of it, was going, and to act on that vision in a creative way.... From the days of Adam Smith, self-interest has been the acknowledged driving force of capitalism; the secret of the market system is that one person’s self-interest can simultaneously serve the interests of others. Buyers and sellers, producers and consumers, investors and entrepreneurs take reciprocal advantage of each other. Success rewards those who can discover or create areas of reciprocity; the larger the area, the greater the success.... They were captains of industry; but like officers of volunteer regiments, they held their posts at the sufferance of those they led.”

 H. W. Brands, historian, 1999

3.Using the excerpts, answer (a), (b), and (c).

a) Briefly explain ONE major difference between Josephson’s and Brands’s historical interpretations of businessleaders who rose to prominence between 1865 and 1900.

b) Briefly explain how ONE person, event, or development from the period 1865–1900 that is not explicitlymentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Josephson’s interpretation.

c) Briefly explain how ONE person, event, or development from the period 1865–1900 that is not explicitlymentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Brands’s interpretation.

4. Answer (a), (b), and (c).

a) Identify ONE factor that increased tensions between Great Britain and its North American colonies in theperiod 1763–1776, and briefly explain how this factor helped lead to the American Revolution.

b) Identify a SECOND distinct factor that increased tensions between Great Britain and its North Americancolonies in the same period, and briefly explain how this factor helped lead to the American Revolution.

c) Identify a THIRD distinct factor that increased tensions between Great Britain and its North Americancolonies in the same period, and briefly explain how this factor helped lead to the American Revolution.

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