Different Essay prompt types that appear on the APUSH exam

1) Type: Change over time.

Topic: The role of women from colonization to the women's rights movement.*

2) Cause and effect: 

  • Topic: How did the failure of the Versailles Treaty lead to the coming of World War II?*

    3) Type: Compare and contrast.

  • Topic: Industrial Revolution: The steel and oil industries developed according to the leadership of the industrialist 
in charge.

    4) Type: Define and Identify.

  • Topic: The rebelliousness of 1960s Culture

    5) Type: Statement, react to it.

  • Topic: The New Deal moved America one step closer to Socialism

    6) Type: Evaluation

  • Topic: Southern generals were more effective than their Union counterparts.

    7) Statement from a particular viewpoint.

  • Topic: Women's Rights: Explain why suffrage for women was delayed so long.