Possible APUSH Unit 6 Essay Prompts
Directions: For your Unit 6 exam you will be writing a complete FRQ. The essay
prompt will be one of the following. It is highly recommended that you outline and
brainstorm the following prompts. However, it is a closed note exam.
1. How successful were progressive reforms during the period 1890 to 1915 with respect to TWO of the
following?
a. Industrial Conditions
b. Urban Life
c. Politics
2. Explain how TWO of the following influenced U.S. foreign policy during the 1920s:
a. Social and economic issues within the U.S.
b. War Debts and reparations
c. Political ideology
3. The Spanish American War was the result of shrewd maneuvering on the part of the number of
Washington imperialists, such as Theodore Roosevelt, who pressured the weak and vacillating
McKinley into war in order to gain a colonial empire in the Caribbean and the Western Pacific.
Evaluate this statement.
4. To what extent did the United States achieve the objectives that led it to enter the First World War?
5. Describe the relationship between the United States and Europe at the turn of the 20th century in
terms of their attitudes toward and involvement with each other. Given this relationship, explain the
U.S. entry into World War I.
6. Historians have argued that Progressive reform lost momentum in the 1920s. Evaluate this
statement with respect to TWO of the following:
a. Regulation of business
b. Labor
c. Immigration
7. How did TWO of the following help shape American national culture in the 1920s?
a. Advertising
b. Entertainment
c. Mass Production
Possible APUSH Unit 6 Essay Prompts
Directions: For your Unit 6 exam you will be writing a complete FRQ. The essay
prompt will be one of the following. It is highly recommended that you outline and
brainstorm the following prompts. However, it is a closed note exam.
1. How successful were progressive reforms during the period 1890 to 1915 with respect to TWO of the
following?
a. Industrial Conditions
b. Urban Life
c. Politics
2.
3.
Explain how TWO of the following influenced U.S. foreign policy during the 1920s:
a. Social and economic issues within the U.S.
b. War Debts and reparations
c. Political ideology
The Spanish American War was the result of shrewd maneuvering on the part of the number of
Washington imperialists, such as Theodore Roosevelt, who pressured the weak and vacillating McKinley
into war in order to gain a colonial empire in the Caribbean and the Western Pacific. Evaluate this
statement.
4.
To what extent did the United States achieve the objectives that led it to enter the First World War?
5.
Describe the relationship between the United States and Europe at the turn of the 20th century in
terms of their attitudes toward and involvement with each other. Given this relationship, explain the U.S.
entry into World War I.
6.
Historians have argued that Progressive reform lost momentum in the 1920s. Evaluate this
statement with respect to TWO of the following:
a. Regulation of business
b. Labor
c. Immigration
7.
a.
b.
c.
How did TWO of the following help shape American national culture in the 1920s?
Advertising
Entertainment
Mass Production