June 2010: US History

<p>Harambee! Thank you so much for the picture! Unfortunately, I could swear that that picture never showed up on my test - maybe I answered it while I was half asleep. o_o The letters “Stop communism” do look eerily familiar… thank you thank you though. :)</p>

<p>I’m guessing it was somewhere towards the end?</p>

<p>The fact that its skilled and unskilled is more significant, however, than french and american. Also, political and economic seems a rather vague difference. Did they not fight for both?</p>

<p>haha it was just an example. you can use basketball players and winning vs. money or something. the 2 good players dont make much but win championships, while the other good player plays with crappy players but makes $30mil a year. its all about the ulterior motives… haha</p>

<p>and doesnt the fact that the KoL had socialists who wanted to make political changes have a say in the matter? (members who were in the Socialist Labor Party)</p>

<p>definitely not skilled and unskilled workers. if i recall correctly, that answer said something along the lines of the KoL represented mainly skilled workers as the difference. That’s flipped. </p>

<p>As for political and economic reasons being the difference (straight from AMSCO):</p>

<p>Powderly advocated a variety of reforms: (1) worker cooperatives “to make each man his own employer,” (2) abolition of child labor, and (3) abolition of trusts and monopolies.</p>

<p>Sounds pretty political to me…versus:</p>

<p>Unlike the idealistic, reform-minded Knights of Labor, the AFL concentrated on attaining practical economic goals. Founded in 1886 as an association of 25 craft unions, the AFL did not advocate a reform program to remake American society.</p>

<p>^That’s why I chose the econ v. political</p>

<p>I agree with sephora2. I remember the skills vs. unskilled answer, but there was something wrong with it; it was probably flipped like sephora2 said.</p>

<p>Can anyone definitely confirm that the skilled v. unskilled answer was flipped? I honestly can’t remember.</p>

<p>The Knights of Labor (KOL) was a mass organization, embracing nearly any worker who wanted to join. An early advocate of producerism, the KOL was so loosely organized that it admitted physicians and employers.[15]</p>

<p>The KOL’s policies on a number of issues seemed more progressive than those of the AFL—organizing unskilled workers, educating against discrimination, and a dedication to broad idealism.[16] The KOL subordinated separate craft interests to the welfare of all the workers.[17]</p>

<p>The KOL had an enormous membership compared to the early AFL.[18] The KOL primarily consisted of previously unorganized semi-skilled workmen and machine operators.[19] During 1886 KOL membership grew from 15,000 members to 700,000.[20]</p>

<p>The American Federation of Labor (AFL) under the leadership of Samuel Gompers focused on “pure and simple” trade unionism. The AFL concerned itself with a “philosophy of pure wage consciousness,” according to Selig Perlman,[25] who developed the “business unionism” theory of labor. Perlman saw craft organizing as a means of resisting the encroachment of waves of immigrants. Organization that was based upon craft skills granted control over access to the job.[26] In a sense, craft unions provided a good defense for the privileges of membership, but the offensive power of craft unions to effect change in society at large has been circumscribed by a self-limiting vision. The AFL was businesslike and pragmatic, adopting the motto, “A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work.”[27]</p>

<p>Basically, the unskilled vs. skilled is the better choice.</p>

<p>can anyone remember the other answer choices for the question about the beat generation book? i forget which answer i put</p>

<p>^
*Babbitt
Main Street
On The Road (answer)
Grapes of Wrath *</p>

<p>I can’t remember the last one</p>

<p>superexcited- totally agree with you unless the answer was flipped, in which case its probably econ v. political. however, I think it would be a pretty tricky and sneaky move for CollegeBoard to make an answer wrong just because they flipped the two.</p>

<p>It might have possible been flipped? Hopefully not… Dang collegeboard.</p>

<p>can anyone guess the curve?</p>

<p>what would 15 wrong and skipped 2 be?</p>

<p>Can anyone tell me the answer choices for 15, 31, and/or 36 on the consolidated list? Any help is appreciated.</p>

<p>@musicsweetie
that’s probably around the 600s, maybe in the mid-high range.</p>

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<p>It’d be closer to the 720-730 range.</p>

<p>^Oh wait…for some reason I thought this was Math II. Fail on my part. And you’re right, it’s around there.</p>

<p>Hah so I was eating cereal - and then I had a mini revelation. (Gasp.) After staring at that Stop Communism picture for who knows how long, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask - does anyone happen to remember the other answer choices to that question (besides containment?). I remember going back to recheck some of the answers, but I ran out of time before I could get to all of them (I think it must have been one of the ones I didn’t get to.)</p>

<p>Hahaha I officially never want to see anything relating to U.S. history ever again.</p>

<p>ps. You all are so helpful - many many many thanks.</p>

<p>Oh - and musicsweetie, the official SAT book (for both tests) has it at 730.</p>

<p>I think these two questions might have been missing from the list… </p>

<p>There was one question that was like what is not true of the antebellum age in the south and the answer was something like most people owned slaves…</p>

<p>The other question asked what was true of the red scare and one of the choices was it was lead by McCarthy and another was that it targeted Hollywood movie stars… Not sure which of those two it was</p>