Documenting United States History

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aPPlyI Ng aP® historical Thinking Skills

sKill review Contextualization and appropriate Use

of historical evidence

Answer the following prompt using the three documents above and your knowledge of the

time period between 1787 and 1797. Consult your textbook and class notes to help you

answer the question.

The three documents above (Docs. 6.8, 6.9, and 6.10) exhibit examples of Ameri-

can gender, political, and economic identities in the ten years after the election of

George Washington as first president of the United States. Analyze how the value

systems in each document reflected an emerging national identity.

Your response should include an introductory paragraph with a thesis and at least two

body paragraphs, each of which must include a claim and evidence. (See Building AP®

Writing Skills, p. 25, for examples of claims and evidence.) Be sure to decide which organiza-

tional format will be better for your response—subject-by-subject (see Building AP® Writing

Skills, p. 51) or point-by-point (see Building AP® Writing Skills, p. 81).

When writing about a national identity, combine those factors that influenced the cre-

ation of that identity. For example, in the previous Applying AP® Historical Thinking Skills

exercise, you examined the legislation that developed during this time period. This exercise

asks you to combine (or synthesize) the gender, political, and economic issues that also con-

tributed to this national identity.

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