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AP 2020 Exam

AP United States History Exam

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Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Support an argument in response to the prompt using at least four documents. Use at least two additional pieces of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt. For at least two documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument. Use evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt.

Evaluate the extent to which the institution of slavery changed in the period from 1754 to 1850.

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Source: Image from a Map of Virginia and Maryland, circa the mid-1750s.

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Source: Advertisement in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, 1762.

Just imported from the Coast of Africa . . . to be sold at Wilmington [in Delaware] . . . by Willing, Morris, and Company, [merchants] OF PHILADELPHIA, ONE Hundred and Seventy fine Gold Coast NEGROES.

. . . In the West Indies Islands, where Slaves are best known, those of the Gold Coast are in much greater Esteem, and higher valued, than any others.

Document 3

Source: James Warren, newspaper editor, essay in the Republican Centinel during the debate in Massachusetts over ratifying the United States Constitution, 1788.

[By] the provision in the [constitutional] system for a representation of the people, which is the corner stone of a free government . . . , fifty thousand slaves, having neither liberty or property, will have a representative in that branch of the legislature [the House of Representatives]. . . . Should it be said, that not the slaves but their masters are to send a representative, the answer is plain: If the slaves have a right to be represented, they are on a footing with freemen. . . . What covenant [agreement] are the freemen of Massachusetts about to ratify? A covenant that will degrade them to the level of slaves. . . . Is this an equal, a safe, or a righteous plan of government?

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Source: Jeremiah Gloucester, formerly enslaved African American minister, An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, delivered at an African American church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1823.

America lifted up the pole of liberty and unfurled the banner and swayed the scepter of Independence. . . . Then it was the African [who] lifted up his bleeding fettered [shackled] hands, and cried with a voice that reiterated “Am I not a man and a

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brother!” . . . Yet there are thousands of our brethren of colour suffering under the tyrannical yoke of bondage in the south. . . . I appeal to the hearts of all true republicans, [is it not] a sin in the sight of heaven, to hold in cruel slavery a part of the human family, for no other crime than they are not of the same colour?

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Source: Bennet Barrow, Louisiana slaveholder, rules for his cotton plantation recorded in his diary, 1838.

No negro shall leave the place at any time without my permission, or in my absence that of the Driver [slave overseer] . . . , for the cause of such absence . . . ought never to be omitted to be enquired into.

The Driver should never leave the plantation, unless on the business of the plantation.

No negro shall be allowed to marry out of the plantation.

No negro shall be allowed to sell anything without my express permission. I have ever maintained the doctrine that my negroes have no time [of their own] Whatever, [and] they are always liable to my call without questioning for a moment.

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