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Session 1: Settlement through the American Revolution
About the ExamThe Exam is 3 hour and 15 minutes and
consists of 2 sections: 55-minute multiple-choice section130-minute free-response section
The free-response section begins with a mandatory 15 minute reading period—students should spend most of the 15 minutes analyzing the docs and planning their DBQ (suggested writing time is 45 minutes for the DBQ)
Parts B and C each include two standard essay questions. Students are required to answer 1 essay question in each part in a total of 70 minutes. It is suggested that students spend 5 minutes planning and 30 minutes writing each essay.
Period Covered
Pre-Columbian to 1789
1790 to 1914
1915 to the present
Approximate Percentage of the test
20%
45%
35%
The Exam Composition continued…
Material Covered Approximate Percentage of the test
Public Institutions, behavior and public policy
Social change, and cultural and intellectual developments
Diplomacy and international relations
Economic developments
35%
40%
15%
10%
College Board Topics Outline 1. Pre-Columbian Societies
Early inhabitants of the Americas American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and
the Mississippi Valley American Indian cultures of North America at the time of
European contact2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492–1690
First European contacts with Native Americans Spain’s empire in North America French colonization of Canada English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region,
and the South From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region Religious diversity in the American colonies Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the
Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt
College Board Topics OutlineColonial North America, 1690–1754
Population growth and immigrationTransatlantic trade and the growth of seaportsThe eighteenth-century back countryGrowth of plantation economies and slave societiesThe Enlightenment and the Great AwakeningColonial governments and imperial policy in British
North AmericaThe American Revolutionary Era, 1754–1789
The French and Indian WarThe Imperial Crisis and resistance to BritainThe War for Independence
Mayan CivilizationCorn was the basis of the civilizationMayans dug an extensive network of canals
and water-control ditches than previously known
Only Indians in the Western Hemisphere to invent own type of writing
Invented the zero, developed a calendar based upon astronomy,
Aztec CivilizationIn present day Mexico, Aztecs founded
Tenochitlan as their capitalPracticed human sacrifices to please their
godsFell after rapid spread of smallpox and an
unfortunate myth regarding their gods
Incan CivilizationIn present day Peru/Andes MountainsLargest, oldest and best organized of the
Indian civilizationsIncans divided land into 3 parts: one for the
sun (religion), one for the Inca (government) and one for the ayllu (community)
Developed an impressive agricultural system, complete with terracing, drainage and irrigation which led to impressive food surpluses
European ConquestsEuropeans were looking for new trade and new lands1492—Columbus sets sail and “discovers” the New WorldSpain and Portugal were particularly dominant—
remember the Treaty of Tordesillas!In 1517, Hernan Cortes landed in Mexico and named it
Vera Cruz—acquire as much gold and silver as possible and spread Christianity; by 1521, the conquest was complete
Francisco Pizarro completed the conquest of Incas by 1535
By the mid 1500s, Havana, Mexico City, Quito, Buenos Aires, Santiago were founded
Key Exports and ConsequencesGold, silverTobacco, rubber, cacao and cotton
Potatoes and CornDestruction of indigenous lifeCreation of “mestizo race”African slaves brought to New World as early as
1502; unlike in America, the slave system in the New World was not self-sustaining and they had to rely upon slave importation
Creation of a new culture that incorporated indigenous, African, European and Catholic elements