APUSH- Thesis Statements

by Jamie Nack

Develop thesis statements for 3 of the questions below, and bring them to class on Tuesday.

AP 2010- Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775–1783.

AP 2009- Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials’ resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values.

AP 1999- To what extent had the colonists developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution?

AP 1992- Evaluate the relative importance of the following as factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776:
• parliamentary taxation
• British military measures
• restriction of civil liberties
• the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas

AP 1989- “In the two decades before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, a profound shift occurred in the way many Americans thought and felt about the British government and their colonial governments.” Assess the validity of this statement in view of the political and constitutional debates of these decades.

AP 1988 -“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.” Evaluate this accusation made against George III in the Declaration of Independence.

AP 1975- “The Declaration of Independence has been variously interpreted as a bid for French support, an attempt to swing uncommitted Americans to the revolutionary cause, a statement of universal principles, and an affirmation of the traditional rights of Englishman.” To what extent, if any, are these interpretations in conflict?

AP 1974- To what extent did economic issues provoke the American Revolution?