Unit+8+FRQ+Sample+Responses

Many of you have asked for help on the FRQ, especially the one that we took most recently. You are now in luck! Listed below are each of the questions that were offered to each class along with sample responses and a commentary by the College Board on why they received the score that they did.

__**Block D (Version "A")**__ Question 1: In what wasy and to what extent was industrial development from 1800 to 1860 a factor in the relationship between the northern and southern states?



Question 2: Analyze the effectiveness of political compromise in reducing sectional tensions in the period 1820 to 1861.

(For this question, look at the responses and commentary for Question #3.)

__**Block F (Version "B")**__ Question 1: Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of TWO of the following:
 * Missouri Compromise
 * Mexican War
 * Compromise of 1850
 * Kansas-Nebraska Act

(For this question, look at the responses and commentary for Question #3.)

Question 2: To what extent did the debates about the Mexican War and its aftermath reflect the sectional interests of New Englanders, westerners, and southerners in the period 1845 to 1855?