June 2006 - US History

<p>Do you guys think that tomorow's american test will be the same or similiar to today's?</p>

<p>does anybody know the answer to any of these?
50. Women had no legal identity – right??
51. Compromise of 1850, willingness of HC & Web to comp??
52. Comp of 1850, KansasNebraska
53. army weaker, Loyalists having arms
54. blacks move north 1915-1930, blacks needed jobs??
55. slave importation
56. tammany hall, spoils system?
57. upset about currency depreciation??, didn’t hurt speculators??
58. not a problem in 1970’s??
59. song to immigrants Taylorism? Cooperation among workers?
60. NE town plots IDK
61. NE Confederation IDK
62. Great Society & New Deal difference, African Americans???
63. inner city political ppl
64. USSR strength according to Truman, army? Bombs? Technology?
65. what did most Indians who met colonial ppl do? Move west? Intermarry? Agricultural economy? Fur trade?
66. similarities b/t colonial & na culture, gender roles??</p>

<p>gxing...why did you retake? 750 is a great score!!</p>

<p>because i wanted an 800 lol.</p>

<p>atnay,</p>

<ol>
<li>Women had no legal identity – right?? - that's what i put, but i think the right answer's women can't hold property</li>
<li>Compromise of 1850, willingness of HC & Web to comp??</li>
<li>Comp of 1850, KansasNebraska</li>
<li>army weaker, Loyalists having arms - i got this wrong too...</li>
<li>blacks move north 1915-1930, blacks needed jobs??</li>
<li>slave importation - this was a chart the answer was A</li>
<li>tammany hall, spoils system?</li>
<li>upset about currency depreciation??, didn’t hurt speculators?? still being argued</li>
<li>not a problem in 1970’s?? i said healthcare</li>
<li>song to immigrants Taylorism? Cooperation among workers? - i think it's taylorism</li>
<li>NE town plots IDK - i said stressed town or something</li>
<li>NE Confederation - prevent indian attacks</li>
<li>Great Society & New Deal difference, African Americans??? that's what i put</li>
<li>inner city political ppl - don't remember what i put</li>
<li>USSR strength according to Truman, army? Bombs? Technology? i said army</li>
<li>what did most Indians who met colonial ppl do? Move west? Intermarry? Agricultural economy? Fur trade? i said fur trade</li>
<li>similarities b/t colonial & na culture, gender roles?? wasn't this an except question? i had view of property or something...</li>
</ol>

<p>YES! i was right. The question regarding the greatest soviet threat to Americans following WWII was ballistic missiles. WHile most people think that the U.S.S.R was not powerful enough by then, they had in fact started an arms race with the United States as early as post WWII. Furthermore, my textbook has a political cartoon for the chapter following WWII (cold war), and one of the political cartoons shows the U.S. and Soviet bombs, of equal size, with the world in between the bombs. Lastly, the following website details the making of ballistic missiles by the soviet union. The earliest rocket design in the picture was shown in 1946. The following paragraph also details the Soviet missiles:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/earsiles.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/earsiles.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>On 19 April 1945 Decree 8206 of the State Committee for Defence ordered formation of TsKB-1 - Central Design Bureau 1 - for the purpose of recovering liquid rocket technology from Germany. By 24 May the first group from the bureau arrived in Berlin (Genera Gaidukov was the leader; members included Semenov, Mriykin, Pobedonsotetsev, V S Budnik, Shaprior, Timofeyev, Chertok, and Volfovich). A week later Stalin decreed that all rocket institutes in the Soviet zone of Germany were to be taken over and put back into operation. </p>

<p>Take notice to the last sentence in which Stalin decrees that hte rocket institutions be " taken over and put back into operation". This means that the Soviets were experimenting before WWII. </p>

<p>Although the army was strong, it was not strong enough. Think of the Berlin Crisis, and the airlift. THe U.S. was not afraid to ship supplies to the Americans, despite threat from the Soviets. However, the U.S. would later back down when the Berlin Wall was created (later than WWII), fearing the Soviet power. This indicates that following WWII, the Soviet army threat was not powerful enough to deter the Americans. CHA-CHING.</p>

<p>Also..As the United States perceived their main enemy to be the Soviet Union, they needed missiles that could travel long distances. Therefore, after the war, the United States concentrated on developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). </p>

<p>from <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDnucleararms.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDnucleararms.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>i dont kno im bummed out</p>

<p>gxing, Im pretty sure your right about the native american q being an EXCEPT q. I rememebr putting how they viewed property differently also.</p>

<p>Ok...and again i prove my point..ballistic missiles DID in fact exist after WWII and it was an increasingly growing issue for the AMericans. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.espionageinfo.com/An-Ba/Ballistic-Missiles.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.espionageinfo.com/An-Ba/Ballistic-Missiles.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The United States and Soviet Union were far behind Germany in the design of large rockets during World War II, but both captured V-2 technicians and information at the end of the war and used them to accelerate their own missile programs. The U.S. began by experimenting with captured V-2s, and during the late 1940s built several new rockets of its own based on the V-2. During the 1950s both the Soviet Union and the United States turned their attention to the development of ballistic-missile boosters that could reach the other country's heartland from anywhere in the world.</p>

<p>And for the native american one...it was viewed properly different. The native americans were communal, and land belonged to all. The colonists were an individualistic society, and land belonged to one individual. 100% sure.</p>

<ol>
<li>Cambells soup - Warhol</li>
<li>Maryland didn’t secede from the Union</li>
<li>Big three – stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt<br></li>
<li>Poem (spare a dime) 1930’s</li>
<li>Speratists wanted to- Break away from church of England </li>
<li>LIFE article – women finish college b4 getting married</li>
<li>Proclamation of 1763 – stop colonists from moving west of the appalachian</li>
<li>neutrality act- isolationism </li>
<li>Cold war quote-McCarthy </li>
<li>NAACP fought through courts </li>
<li>MLK, Southern Christian Leadership C </li>
<li>Quakers didn’t believe in celibacy </li>
<li>Roe v. Wade – abortion rights for women</li>
<li>imports/exports graph </li>
<li>Mexican immigration reasons – traditions/customs/religion</li>
<li>Immigration map- Mormons </li>
<li>California immigrants- persecution of Chinese </li>
<li>muckraker question </li>
<li>Quote about 600,000 ppl and states- Northwest ordinance</li>
<li>first nw o state- OHIO </li>
<li>Jefferson, revolution of 1800 – peaceful transition of power (took power from federalists)</li>
<li>picture of family- cult of domesticity </li>
<li>19th amendment- womens right to vote </li>
<li>ran against FDR, EXCEPT William Jennings Bryan </li>
<li>magical potion ad- exaggeration</li>
<li>black freedom quote- Malcolm x </li>
<li>How did US get Puerto rico and phillippines? Defeated Spain</li>
<li>city on a hill quote- john Winthrop</li>
<li>Horatio Alger, self made man </li>
<li>least likely to support Manifest destiny- NE abolitionists </li>
<li>picture of women in factory- factory system </li>
<li>N. Hawthorne and scarlet letter- puritan legacy </li>
<li>advantage of south during Civil War- homeground</li>
<li>scopes trial- religious fundamentalism </li>
<li>progressives- did not support African Americans</li>
<li>Kent State- Invasion of Cambodia </li>
<li>US tried to stop Soviet influence EXCEPT- UN charter </li>
<li>Pocahontas, not associated w/PA</li>
<li>1932 non-recognition Stimson Act, Jap invaded Manchuria </li>
<li>Jackson native Americans that brought court suit- Cherokee</li>
<li>voting graph- 1960s civil rights act increased AAs voting</li>
<li>Hurt carter in election- Iran-hostage crisis</li>
<li>1920s criticism- Main Street</li>
<li>principal crop in Virginia- John Rolfe tobacco </li>
<li>slaves developed their own culture</li>
<li>after WWII US practiced anti-imperailism by- giving independence to Philippines</li>
<li>no gov’t tyranny b/c of factions quote- Madison</li>
<li>more small farmers than wealthy plantation owners</li>
<li>Women had no legal identity</li>
<li>Compromise of 1850- willingness of HC & Web to compromise</li>
<li>Comp of 1850, KansasNebraska</li>
<li>Between 1783-1789, US had to deal with all EXCEPT- loyalists not putting down arms.</li>
<li>blacks move north 1915-1930- Avaialibility of industrial jobs because of WWI</li>
<li>slave importation- North America imported less than one tenth of slaves.</li>
<li>tammany hall- spoils system?</li>
<li>Paper money depreciation- Speculators OR Soldiers</li>
<li>not a problem in 1970’s?? (LAST Q) – Either vietnam or loans/ savings</li>
<li>song to immigrants- Taylorism? or Cooperation among workers?</li>
<li>NE town plots- Importance of community and not rural land.</li>
<li>NE Confederation- Colonies unite to defend borders against NA</li>
<li>Great Society & New Deal difference- African Americans??? Or Art</li>
<li>Some question- Answer was federal funding not given to improve inner cities.</li>
<li>USSR strength according to Truman- ARMY</li>
<li>what did most Indians who met colonial ppl do? Move because colonists were encroaching their land</li>
<li>similarities OR diffrerences b/t colonial & na culture- EIther gender roles or View of property</li>
<li>Relations w/China- NIXON</li>
<li>art exhibition- cubists </li>
<li>Hudson school- painters</li>
<li>Map question- Either Wheat or Foreign Born</li>
<li>Taft-Hartley Act- Curb power of labor unions</li>
<li>southerners settled west- Land was infertile/ overused.</li>
<li>colony founded by Catholics- Maryland </li>
<li>women- Equal Rights amendment was never ratified</li>
<li>Another women quote- Reference to bible that said women were the helpmates of men?</li>
<li>Hamilton question towards end of test- I put to stabilize US so they could become a strong nation. (I think it was E)</li>
<li>Question about american interment- Japanese Americans</li>
<li>QUote about executive branch/president needing to enforce decisions of the Supreme court- EIsenhower when he enforced desegregation in south.</li>
<li>Some q about what anti-federalists wanted?</li>
</ol>

<p>MED, the Soviets did not have any missiles directly after WWII, which is what the question asked. Therefore, the answer is the army.</p>

<p>it doesn't matter if they had the missiles or not. And in fact, they did have missiles in 1946. Ballistic missiles to be exact, if you read my post. And furthermore, it said the greatest [percieved] threat to the United States. The U.S. was worried that hte Soviets would develop missiles and therefore started developing their own following WWII.</p>

<p>And for the native american one...it was viewed properly different. The native americans were communal, and land belonged to all. The colonists were an individualistic society, and land belonged to one individual. 100% sure.</p>

<p>...what was the answer?</p>

<p>they differed in their ideals of property</p>

<p>for the women quote, there was the bible... john locke... abigail adams... i said john locke... idk</p>

<p>its the bible...the bible stated that the women were helpmates, which contradicts womens ideals of freedom from the cult of domesticity</p>

<p>^I think it was bible because the quote talked about equal rights for women. Saying that women were just helpmates to men wouldnt really support equal rights, it would actually put them in a demeaning position.</p>

<p>yea it was the bible.. like the fact taht "eve" had come from "adam" so that she was inferior... also i thought of another question that i did not see on the list.. or maybe its there and im too lazy to find it.. but the one about the constitution quote vs. the quote from the declaration of independ</p>

<p>the "inalienable rights" was the answer i think</p>