**June SAT U.S. History Post Test Discussion**

<p>Oh thank god, I put lack of juries…</p>

<p>Crap, I put trial by juries and then erased it because it was a complete guess. </p>

<p>Blurg. And I didn’t know anything about the religious leaders/elected officials one. I put elected officials from the governor, but that was probably a really dumb answer. Haha. Whatever. If -8 is an 800, then I should be pretty okay. </p>

<p>I thought this was way harder than the AP MC!</p>

<p>There was nothing about women on the graph. But it showed two time periods, one of which before women could vote, and the other, after. It would have to be right, because why would that inference be wrong? </p>

<p>More black women voters=more black voters</p>

<p>Is there something I’m missing?</p>

<p>^ It was at least as difficult as the AP, you’re right.</p>

<p>ಠ_ಠ Does anyone know what the usual cut-off is for an 800? How many questions can you get wrong at maximum? </p>

<p>I’m down four right now, and I just. lol. Why.</p>

<p>So does anybody remember the question about Justice Taney’s decision in the Dred Scott case? I think that it was either “African Americans can never be U.S. Citizens”, or “Fugitive slaves should be returned to their masters immediately”, but I couldn’t decide between them…</p>

<p>No, it was in the mid-1900s, and women could definitely vote by then.</p>

<p>Dred Scott said slaves were property and therefore didn’t have the rights of citizens in a trial. </p>

<p>Fugitive Slave Act was different.</p>

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<p>??? Thoughts on this scoring table?</p>

<p>@pylades, From all of the practice tests I’ve taken, I’m guessing about 10?</p>

<p>LovesBrown, that’s what my friend figured, thanks >_<</p>

<p>What was the answer to the Missouri Compromise question?</p>

<p>@lmaozedong; Thanks, bro. That makes me feel better.</p>

<p>It let Missouri in as a slave state. </p>

<p>Dude, you can get 10 wrong and get a 790? I GOT THIS. Wooo.</p>

<p>missouri was admitted as slave state (i think that was an option…) can someone confirm this because i just don’t remember.</p>

<p>yw :slight_smile: the curve changes from year to year though.</p>

<p>@swebber, I think the question had something to do with Missouri becoming a slave state. Does that sound like an answer choice? I don’t remember it being very hard.</p>

<p>can anyone really confirm with proof that it’s decline of beef or whatever this one is killing me</p>

<p>so whitman was mathematics? its between that and reason</p>

<p>@chaldo, take a look at this quote from the American Pageant-
“What the Lord giveth, the Lord also can taketh away.
The railroad made the Long Drive, and the railroad
unmade the Long Drive, primarily because the locomotives
ran both ways. The same rails that bore the cattle
from the open range to the kitchen range brought out
the homesteader and the sheepherder. Both of these
intruders, sometimes amid flying bullets, built barbedwire
fences that were too numerous to be cut down
by the cowboys. Furthermore, the terrible winter of
1886–1887, with blinding blizzards reaching 68 degrees
below zero, left thousands of dazed cattle starving and
freezing. Overexpansion and overgrazing likewise took
their toll, as the cowboys slowly gave way to plowboys.”</p>

<p>Barbed wire definitely played a role, and the quote rules out the only other possible answer, bad weather. So it’s almost definitely decreased demand in the East.</p>

<p>and the one about england competing against portugal for the slave trade? what were the choices</p>

<p>The thing about the Whitman one was that I contextualized. Romantic writers didn’t have a problem with mathematics, objectively. But they DID have a problem with sole reliance on reason. I’m hoping the question was getting at that. Since the mathematics involved in the astronomy in the poem represents objective reasoning in the big picture. </p>

<p>So, like, yeah. Hopefully it’s reason, because that really is the right answer. Haha.</p>