1. APUSH Review: The New Curriculum – Short Answer Questions (SAQs)
APUSH Review: The New Curriculum – Short Answer Questions (SAQs)
Everything You Need To Know About The Short Answer Question Section To Succeed In APUSH

2. Description Of Short Answer Questions
These will test not only your content knowledge, but your knowledge of historical thinking skills (HTS)
Historical Argumentation, Use of Relevant Historical Evidence, Historical Causation, Patterns of Continuity and Change Over Time, Compare and Contrast, Contextualization, Interpretation, Some may have a source (reading, map, etc.), some will just explain requirements
All answer MUST be in complete sentences

3. Tips For Short Answer Questions
You must answer within the boxes only
Essentially, 1 page with lines to answer all the parts (A, B, C)
Keep it brief but meaningful, space (and time) is limited
Make sure you answer what the question is asking

4. Tips for Short answer Questions
Most of the available samples require students to answer parts A, B, and C. Many of these questions will challenge you to think about opposing viewpoints.
Tips for Short answer Questions

5. Test Tips
It's impossible to have a 'formula' for answering a short-answer question. Every prompt is different, but there are a few basic guidelines:
Jot down a quick answer for every part of the question (A, B, and C) directly in your test booklet.
Gather more support than you think you need. Based on the samples released by College Board, you need to know general details and major highlights of the topics presented as well as basic cause and effect. You do NOT need to know obscure facts.

6. Test Tips
Think about how each part of the question and your examples fit together. This will help you formulate a brief topic sentence to make sure that your answer is structured and succinctly communicates your ideas.
Put it all together into a direct, well-supported short answer.
Resist the urge to list all of the examples you recall.
Make sure your support proves your point, that it all relates clearly, and that you have directly answered all parts of the question

7. Test Tips
Prompt:
Various Native Indian cultures thrived in North America before ‘first contact’ with Europeans.
a. Identify a group of Native Indians and describe how they thrived before first contact with Europeans.
b. Identify a second group of Native Indians and describe how they thrived before first contact with Europeans.
c. Give evidence that suggests the Native American s interacted with each before ‘first contact’ with European.

8. Short answer question
Ideas about democracy, freedom and individualism found expression in the colonies that created a unique American identity.
a.) Identify one factor that increased tensions between Great Britain and the colonies between the period and explain how this factor will lead to a unique American identity.
b.) Identify a second distinct factor that increased tensions between Great Britain and the colonies between the period and explain how this factor will lead to a unique American identity.
c.) Identify an individual who supported freedom and individualism and explain their contribution towards a unique American identity.