Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Free Response Essay Resources

Question/Task:

"Identify and Analyze the factors that changed the American City in the second half of the nineteenth century:

Possible topics of discussion:


*growth of industry

• advent of the steam engine

• improved transportation: railroads; streetcars

• large factories

• increased immigration I

• port cities

• architectural changes: skyscrapers

• electric lights for commercial purposes

• urban planning

• tenements

• amusement parks (though this may be more an effect)

• theatres, museums


Resources:

The American Pageant Chapter 25


Sample Essays: Actual essays from "real" AP Students.


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