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College Board, Advanced Placement, AP, AP Central, and the acorn logo are registered [trademarks of College Board. Visit College Board on the web: collegeboard.org](trademarks of College Board. Visit College Board on the web: collegeboard.org).  \nAP Central is the official online home for [the AP Program: apcentral.collegeboard.org](the AP Program: apcentral.collegeboard.org).  \nUNITED STATES HISTORY  \nSECTION I PART B  \nTIME – 40 MINUTES  \nDirections:  \nSection I, Part B has 3 short-answer questions and lasts 40 minutes.  \nIn this part, answer Question 1 and Question 2 and either Question 3 or Question 4.  \nIn your responses, be sure to address all parts of the questions you answer. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.  \nYou may pace yourself as you answer the questions in this part, or you may use these optional timing recommendations:  \nIt is suggested that you spend an equal amount of time, approximately 13 minutes, on each question.  \nYou may use scratch paper for notes and planning, but credit will only be given for responses entered in this application. Text you enter as an annotation will not be included as part of your answer. You can go back and forth between questions in this part until time expires. The clock will turn red when 5 minutes remain—the proctor will not give you any time updates or warnings.  \nNote: This exam was originally administered digitally. It is presented here in a format optimized for teacher and student use in the classroom.  \nSource 1  \n“[After the Civil War,] while some Northerners shared the white South’s desire for a quick, harmonious, magnanimous return to the Union, others believed that only fundamental changes in the South could insure future peace and reflect national ideals of liberty and equality.... Unfortunately for the latter—for the Radical Republicans—the nation did not share most of its goals for restructuring of the South.... As a result, what was desirable for the Radicals and those who shared their values and visions was not truly possible. These basic facts explain much of the failure of Reconstruction.  \nWhile most Northerners accepted the war-expanded powers of the national government, they (and their representatives and senators) still saw the states as playing the key role in the federal system.... In the late 1800s, the nation turned [away] from Reconstruction.... The rest ofthe nation...left the South to govern itself.”  \nSource: Claudine L. Ferrell, historian, Reconstruction, 2003  \nmagnanimous: generous  \nSource 2  \n“To most Americans in 1865,‘the Reconstruction of the Union’ was more important [than Reconstruction of the South] .... If we see Reconstruction’s purpose as making sure that the main goals of the war would be fulfilled, of a Union held together forever..., then Reconstruction looks like what in that respect it was, a lasting and unappreciated success....  \n[Reconstruction] meant returning America to a peacetime footing...[by] strengthening and devising new connections, and at all hazards, making a nation made to last.... Freedom became so ingrained that even the old [enslavers] swore that they would not revive slavery, even if they could.... 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