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3. What is the format of your exam: how many questions and what types of questions? =====

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There are 80 multiple-choice questions, 1 document based question (free reposnse) =====

====4. What content area makes up the largest part of your exam? What area makes up the least? ==== ====The nineteenth and twentieth centuries questions make up the majority of the exam while the period from the first European explorations of the Americas to the present makes up the least. ====

====5. List three topics you are most interested in studying in this AP course. Explain what interests you about these topics. ==== ====- Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum America: I'm interested in this topic because I love learning that people back then understood what they were doing wrong and tried changing things to make things better. Like in 8th grade when we learned about the renaissance I was really into it and understood so much. ====

- The Crisis of the Union: I'm interested in this topic because I have already learned quite a lot about this and I understand stand it pretty well and would like to master it.
====- The United States and the Early Cold War: I'm interested in this topic because this in about a war that occured in Asia and since I am from Asia I'd like to see what has happened in the continent in which I'm from.====

====8. Read through this article. In one to two paragraphs, summarize your thoughts on this article. Do you agree with the main argument? Why or why not? Questions/Comments/Connections? What role did slavery play in the origins of American history? Why was it called the “peculiar institution?”====

====Slavery was called "peculiar institution" because it was peculiar that human beings were being divided by race and were forced to do things they didn't want to do, when in the constitution it was said that "all men are equal". I find it weird that slavery was often known as "the peculiar institution" because I would think it would mean that slavery was peculiar, but what it really means is that even though America created the constituion and said that everyone would be treated equally they still had exceptions such as these. It's so strange to see that Austrailia wasn't sucked into the idea of slavery. It doesn't say exactly that there wasn't any, but there wasn't much evidence found to say slavery was an important aspect in peoples' lives there. Arabs and their Muslim allies were the people who basically started the great importance of slavery. What I don't understand though is why did they start is? Was there a good reason for it? They used them for different forms of labor and this led them to NEED slaves to maintain the nation's good economy. This minor thought of having slaves grew into a much bigger and violent idea when other nations started practicing this act of slavery. I wonder if anyone ever thought about how bad it was. Did they ever think of it as a crime if they believed in a religion? I wonder if religion even covered the topic of slavery and if it was okay to do it or not. Slavery helped a lot with the nation's economy, but I do not think it was necessary. If they had not done it in the first place I doubt that much of this would have happened. When slavery wasn't as popular nations were still making it through so I think there was probably a better humane option. It's sad how people thought there were "slaves by nature". That was a terrible thought and just because of what race you are, you can't be assumed to be a "natural slave". People decide who should be made into slaves, not nature. Slavery was overall a huge topic where you can go talking about it for days and days, but depending on who you are you will have different opinions on if it's right or not. You can't say slavery is right or wrong becasuse sometimes slavery's used for good reasons and sometimes there's no need to, but it's still done. ====