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AP® United States History 2023 Free-Response Questions

UNITED STATES HISTORY
SECTION I, Part B
Time—40 minutes

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Source: Ira Katznelson, historian, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, published in 2013

1. Using the excerpts, respond to parts a, b, and c.

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c. Briefly explain how ideas such as those reflected in the excerpt resulted in one specific effect between 1904 and 1920.

Directions: Answer either Question 3 or Question 4.

3. Respond to parts a, b, and c.

b. Briefly explain one similarity in how agriculture influenced the development of two regions in the United States from 1865 to 1900.

c. Briefly explain one difference in how agriculture influenced the development of two regions in the United States from 1865 to 1900.

END OF SECTION I

Question 1 (Document-Based Question)
Suggested reading and writing time: 1 hour

It is suggested that you spend 15 minutes reading the documents and 45 minutes writing your response. Note: You may begin writing your response before the reading period is over.

• Use at least one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt.

• For at least three documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument.

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Let the attention of the public then be called up to this subject. . . . The word and the providence of God afford the most consoling prospect of success.

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Document 2

Source: Advertisement in Machett’s Baltimore Directory [Maryland] for the sale of steam engines, depicting

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Source: Elias Nason, college student in Rhode Island studying to become a minister, letter to his parents, 1835

I would not put any of [your] children into the mill. Factories are talked about as schools of vice1 in all circles here. And it is a hard thing for small children to be confined in a tight close room all the day long. It affects their growth, makes them pale and sickly and the company with which they associate is of the lowest order. There is no establishment in the country conducted better than that at Unionville. It is a factory still and nothing has ever touched2 my pride so much as to have it said that my sister works in a Cotton Mill. . . . I pity from my soul the thousands in our country that are reduced to the necessity of laboring in a Factory for a livelihood. . . . But in as much as some of the different employments are conducive to goodness—to improvements more than others—it becomes us to choose those which are most favorable to virtue and intelligence. Now a cotton factory is the last place to which I should put children for improvement either in manners, goodness, or intelligence.

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The observance of abstinence [from drinking alcohol] at the parties of the higher classes of colored society . . . is worthy of remark. . . . Whether this arises from a pure love of temperance or a disposition to avoid unnecessary expenditure, either of which is commendable, I shall not pause to inquire. . . .

The exceedingly illiberal, unjust and oppressive prejudices of the great mass of the white community . . . is enough to crush . . . any people. . . . But in the face of all this, they not only bear the burden successfully, but . . . present a state of society of which . . . none have just cause to be ashamed.

[But] there is a brighter side to this picture. . . . The time we do have is our own. The money we earn comes promptly; more so than in any other situation; and our work, though laborious is the same from day to day; we know what it is, and when finished we feel perfectly free, till it is time to commence it again.

Besides this, there are many pleasant associations connected with factory life, that are not to be found elsewhere.

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Suggested writing time: 40 minutes

Directions: Answer Question 2 or Question 3 or Question 4.

• Use historical reasoning (e.g., comparison, causation, continuity or change over time) to frame or structure an

argument that addresses the prompt.

to 1898.

4. Evaluate the extent to which growing concerns about national security contributed to changes in United States

WHEN YOU FINISH WRITING, CHECK YOUR WORK ON SECTION II IF TIME PERMITS.

END OF EXAM