APUSH Short Answer Smackdown
Period 4 A) Briefly explain ONE important difference between the economic systems of the North and the South in the period 1790-1840. B) Briefly explain ANOTHER important difference between the economic systems of the North and the South in the period 1790-1840. C) Briefly explain ONE important connection between the economic systems of the North and the South in the same period.
A) Before the Civil War the Southern economy was singularly focused on growing one crop: cotton. The northern economy however was much more diverse with textile manufacturing and numerous other factories. B) Another difference would be that in the south most of the wealth was concentrated at the top of southern society because of slavery. In the north however there were greater economic opportunities because of the free labor system. C) One important connection would be that southern cotton plantations supplied the New England textile mills with raw goods that could be spun into clothing.
Period 7-8 a) Briefly describe ONE specific historical difference between the internal migration patterns within the United States in the period 1910-1940 and the internal migration patterns in the period 1941-1980. b) Briefly describe ONE specific historical similarity between the internal migration patterns in the period 1910-1940 and the internal migration patterns in the period 1941-1980. c) Briefly explain ONE specific historical impact of the internal migration patterns in either period.
A) Between 1910-1940 much of the internal migration patterns were from the south to the north as hundreds of thousands of black Americans fled the south to northern cities. Whereas After World War II many white Americans began to leave the inner cities (white flight) to settle in the suburbs. B) One historical similarity between the two time periods would be that both groups were migrating for better economic opportunities. C) One impact of the trend of migration after World War II would be that many American cities lost much of their tax base as white Americans left for the suburbs. This loss of revenue led to underfunded public schools and infrastructure and "urban blight" of the 1970s.
Period 4 Image link: t.ly/AOOn Using the image above, answer (a), (b), and (c). A) Briefly describe ONE perspective about politics in the 1830s expressed in the image. B) Briefly explain ONE specific event or development that led to the perspective expressed in the image. C) Briefly explain ONE specific effect of the political developments referenced by the image.
A) One perspective depicted in the cartoon above is how President Andrew Jackson broke with the trend of previous presidents and became acquiring more political power. B) One event that led to the image depicted above is Jackson's veto of the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson was the first president to veto a bill simply because he did not like it rather than it being unconstitutional. C) One effect of the image depicted above would be the Panic of 1837. As the Second bAnk of the United States was allowed to expire there was no financial mechanism to keep inflation low and from the over speculation of western lands.
