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College Board, Advanced Placement Program, AP, AP Central, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks ofthe College Board.  \nVisit [the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org](the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org).  \nAP Central is the official online home for the AP Program: [apcentral.collegeboard.org](apcentral.collegeboard.org).  \n2016 AP® US HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS  \nUNITED STATES HISTORY  \nSECTION I, Part B  \nTime—50 minutes  \n4 Questions  \nDirections: Read each question carefully and write your responses in the Section I, Part B: Short Answer booklet on the lined pages provided for that question.  \nUse complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable. You may plan your answers in this exam booklet, but no credit will be given for notes written in this booklet. Only your responses on the designated pages of the Section I, Part B: Short Answer booklet will be scored.  \n1. Using the graph above, answer (a), (b), and (c) .  \na) Briefly explain how ONE major historical factor contributed to the change depicted on the graph.  \nb) Briefly explain ONE specific historical effect that resulted from the change depicted on the graph.  \nc) Briefly explain ANOTHER specific historical effect that resulted from the change depicted on the graph.  \n© 2016 The College Board.  \nVisit [the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org](the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org).  \n-2- GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.  \n2016 AP® US HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS  \n2. Answer (a), (b), and (c) .  \na) Briefly explain ONE important similarity between the goals of the Spanish and the English in establishing colonies in the Americas prior to 1700.  \nb) Briefly explain ONE important difference between the goals of the Spanish and the English in establishing colonies in the Americas prior to 1700.  \nc) Briefly explain ONE way in which the difference you indicated in (b) contributed to a difference in the development of Spanish and English colonial societies.  \n© 2016 The College Board.  \nVisit [the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org](the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org).  \n-3- GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.  \n2016 AP® US HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS  \n“They were aggressive men, as were the first feudal barons; sometimes they were lawless; in important crises, nearly all of them tended to act without those established moral principles which fixed more or less the conduct of the common people of the community. . . . These men were robber barons as were their medieval counterparts, the dominating figures of an aggressive economic age. . . . Under their hands, the renovation of our economic life proceeded relentlessly; large-scale production replaced the scattered, decentralized mode of production; industrial enterprises became more concentrated, more ‘efficient’technically, and essentially ‘cooperative,’ where they had been purely individualistic and lamentably wasteful.”  \nMatthew Josephson, historian, 1934  \n“What really lifted the giants above the rest was the ability to envision where the world, or their part of it, was going, and to act on that vision in a creative way. . . . From the days of Adam Smith, self-interest has been the acknowledged driving force of capitalism; the secret of the market system is that one person’s self-interest can simultaneously serve the interests of others. 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