AP® WORLD HISTORY 2012 SCORING GUIDELINES Question 1 BASIC CORE (competence) 0–7 Points 1. Has acceptable thesis • The thesis must address a specific relationship between cricket and politics in South Asia‚ using evidence from the documents. • The thesis must be explicitly stated in the introduction or the specified conclusion of the essay. • The thesis may appear as one sentence or multiple sentences. • A thesis that is split among multiple paragraphs is unacceptable. • A thesis
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Soviet influences over the years and decided to take action. On March 27‚ 1947 President Harry S. Truman presented his address before a joint session of congress. The United States involvement in aiding Greece and Turkey was an important part of history that led to many events. In President Harry S. Truman’s address before the joint session of congress‚ he asked that the United States provide 400 million dollars to support Greece and Turkey’s economy and government. They established a doctrine
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Myths in U.S. History Myths and history have always been associated with one another. History is the study of past events. Myths have a similar but different structure to it. A myth is an exaggerated or idealized concept of a person or event. History is often taught from a single perspective‚ so certain events (for example‚ world wars) could be idealized. Myths have no credibility‚ but history does-right? For example‚ when one thinks of Christopher Columbus‚ all you might see is the guy who “discovered”
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APUSH Chapter 10‚ 11‚ & 12 Test Multiple Choice: Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 1. The new Constitution did not provide for the creation of a(n) a. Electoral College. b. vice president. c. Supreme Court. d. cabinet. e. federal court system. 2. The Bill of Rights was intended to protect against the potential tyranny of . a. the prerogatives of Congress‚ the president b. the army and the navy‚ the national government c. the South‚ the northern majority d. individual
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2008‚ Vol. 94‚ No. 1‚ 91–107 Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association 0022-3514/08/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.94.1.91 The Space Between Us: Stereotype Threat and Distance in Interracial Contexts Phillip Atiba Goff The Pennsylvania State University Claude M. Steele Stanford University Paul G. Davies University of British Columbia‚ Okanagan Four studies investigate the role that stereotype threat plays in producing racial
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AP World History-Lakeside High School 2013-2014 Welcome to Advanced Placement World History! You have chosen to join in the AP program that over 14‚000 high schools participate in and over 4‚000 colleges accept AP credit for. Colleges look for students who challenge themselves in a high school environment with the rigor AP courses entail. We have thirty-three chapters to cover in approximately 34 weeks‚ as well as focusing on key concepts‚ content‚ and skills‚ which will be crucial to master
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overhaul of the Federal government. With the exception of Rhode Island‚ these men came from all over the states: large and small‚ north and south. This diversity in delegates helped create a balance of ideas that would become known as constitutional compromises. Without these integral ideas coming together‚ we would not have the government we know today. The delegates of Virginia were the first and most voiced of the crowd. They came straight in with a clear idea of what they wanted to achieve. Edmund
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Southerner experienced drastic developments in between 1830 and 1860. More than the northerners for sure. Cotton was dominant in every way. It controlled half of the exports of the entire nation. If they could succeed as cotton farmers the southerners brought slaves and slavery with them into the southwestern territories of the United States because they knew they would need them. Southerners did not need big cities for they did not have jobs to offer. The North attracted more immigrants than the
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EARTHQUAKE 2005: KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWAN: It was extremely shocking and traumatic as what happened on the morning of October 08‚ 2005: an earthquake befell as a cataclysmic event in Pakistan’s history to be remembered for a very long to come. So many people were still asleep when suddenly they were jolted awake. All at once they began screaming from houses and apartment blocks‚ confounded and staggering as repeated quakes of 7.6 on the Richter scale rocked the earth. It was Saturday‚ just before 9 a
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Between 1820 and 1840 the American population increased dramatically and most were moving to town and cities. The quality of health and living standards improved so white women had a lot of children and there was decrease in infant mortality rate. By the year 1840‚ the population had increased to 17 million. The population of New York for instance was the 312-805‚000 making it the largest‚ lot of people were also migrating from Europe to America. Politicians used this growth to seek more support
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