APUSH Writing Resource Understanding the Long Essay Part I: Analyze the Question Identify the HTS, key task, and time period in each of the following questions. In the blank space write "CE" (causation/ "cause and effect"), "CE" (comparison/"compare and contrast"), "CC" (continuity and change over time), or "P" (periodization). Circle the key task(s) and underline the time period in the question. 1. CC Immigration has played an important role in the history of the US. Compare immigration during the 1840s-1850s with immigration during the 1870s-1880s. 2. CE Explain the major causes and consequences of the American Civil War. 3. Identify and analyze the changing role of women within American society from the American Revolution to the Civil War. 4. Compare the New England colonies with the colonies of the Chesapeake. Be sure to address two of the three characteristics in your answer: political, economic, and social patterns. 5. Evaluate the extent to which trans-Atlantic interactions from 1600 to 1763 contributed to maintaining continuity as well as fostered change in labor systems in the British North American colonies. 6. Evaluate the extent to which westward expansion led to the development of sectionalism prior to 1860. 7. Evaluate major changes and continuities in the social and economic experiences of African Americans who migrated from the rural South to urban areas in the North in the period from 1910 to 1930. 8. CE Explain the three most important causes leading to the Reagan Revolution in 1980. 9. Explain the major political and economic causes and consequences for the growth of big business in American society from 1870 to 1900. 10. Evaluate the extent to which the Spanish American War was a turning point in foreign policy in the US. 11. P Historians have argued that the Era of Good Feelings as a misnomer. To what extent is this true politically and economically? 12. Evaluate the extent to which increasing integration of the US into the world economy contributed to maintaining continuity as well as fostering change in US society from 1945 to the present.