May 2008 US History

<p>Do you guys remember an OPEN DOOR Policy question? I really don't and I fear that I might have bubbled it in wrong. Can someone confirm this? Is it near the beginning, middle or end?</p>

<p>^i really dont remember an open door question at all.</p>

<p>Spark notes has a scale. Google "Sparknotes scale history"</p>

<p>^ hes too lazy to provide a link ;)</p>

<p>SparkNotes:</a> SAT Subject Test: U.S. History: Scoring and the SAT II U.S. History</p>

<p>^thanks guys. looks like i'm going to get a 780 or 790.</p>

<p>oh yeah, and i don't remember an open door question, either. i know there's one about it on the practice questions on collegeboard.com....</p>

<p>do u think the multiple choice on the us his sat is easier or harder than the MC on the AP??</p>

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do u think the multiple choice on the us his sat is easier or harder than the MC on the AP??

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They are different in a sense that sat II is much more specific, but the ap ones are more generalized.</p>

<p>Okay, after freaking out for almost half a day, I have these questions:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>What was the answer to the question that involved Reconstruction? Was it troops in Tennessee or the appointment of black officials in South Carolina and Mississippi? Can you find justification for this?</p></li>
<li><p>Was the Post-WWI question (it was an "EXCEPT" question) answer Poland OR Czechoslovakia?</p></li>
<li><p>Movement to the suburbs: Was the answer the Veterans Administration loans OR was it the answer that involved race/racial stuff (in other words, white flight)?</p></li>
<li><p>Was the "necessary and proper" clause contradicted by the "supreme rule of the land" (choice A)? I really have no idea for this one.</p></li>
<li><p>What did the Constitution (1787) provide for? It was either that 2/3 of the states had to ratify amendments to make changes to the constitution, or that there was a system of Checks and Balances. The only thing is, while the first three articles of the Constitution do specify the roles of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, article five specifically says that 2/3 must ratify.... so which one was it?! Please justify.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>And I second that-- I don't remember anything about Open-Door policy. You probably are confusing it with a practice exam.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for your responses!</p>

<ol>
<li>black officials</li>
<li>loans</li>
<li>states assume powers not dictated to fed gvt</li>
<li>i think someone said checks and balances.</li>
</ol>

<ol>
<li>poland. it didn't exist. it was a part of austria-hungary.
czechoslovakia was the effect of the breakup of the austro-hungarian empire.</li>
</ol>

<ol>
<li>rearmament of major powers.</li>
</ol>

<p>stockguru, it asked what did not happen after the treaty of versailles. poland was created out of Soviet Union and Germany territory and czechoslovakia was created also. therefore, these 2 did happen. rearmament of major powers did not happen because it only directed at germany.</p>

<p>What was the reasoning for the answers of:</p>

<ol>
<li>The rise of the suburbans</li>
<li>Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, New Negro</li>
<li>Massachussetts Bay relocation</li>
</ol>

<p>the New Negroes were seen invariably as men and women (mostly men) of middle-class orientation who often demanded their legal rights as citizens but almost always wanted to craft new images that would subvert and challenge old stereotypes. In 1916-17, however, Hubert Harrison founded the militant "New Negro Movement," in 1917 he founded the first organization (The Liberty League) and the first newspaper (The Voice) of the "New Negro Movement," and this movement energized Harlem and beyond with its race conscious and class conscious demands for political equality, an end to segregation and lynching, and calls for armed self-defense when appropriate. </p>

<p>^from Wikipedia. But I still don't know what the answer was...haha.</p>

<p>does anyone remember what the answer to the graph one was? I was trying to decide between the population quadrupling and immigration rising a lot from early 1840s to mid1850s; the population didn't (quite) quadruple so i went with the immigration rising</p>

<p>how is the "looking into one's heart for the truth" transcedentalism...wouldn't it be more pragmatism?...transcedentalism is more looking into nature...am i correct?</p>

<p>Pragmatism means that you're practical and do whatever works.</p>

<p>I didn't think transcendentalism was a very good choice for that passage either, but it made a ton more sense than any of the other choices.</p>

<p>that quote was a direct quote from emerson. it was obviously transcendentalism...search it on wikipedia and that quote comes up</p>

<p>ahhh darn it you're right....i just couldn't think clearly...it was my 3rd test...darn it i got camelot wrong too....</p>

<p>The consolidated list: (if you get all of these right, and left the rest of the test blank pat yourself on the back for a 720+)
Powhatan Indians – in Virginia
Camelot – JFK
Invaded US – Pancho Billa
14th amendement invalidates Dred Scott
affirmative action – helped women and immigrants
3 quotes about Constitution – Choice E Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin
Necessary and proper clause – contradicted by states reserve rights to all else
Home rule charter – give cities some freedom from state laws
Truman and Macarthur conflict – All except UN base in Japan
Indians different from English settlers –matrilineal
Blacks move to North and West – industrial labor opportunities
Why move to suburbs – Veterans Affairs give loans for houses
Northwest ordinance of 1787 – guidelines for future statehood
Pre Revolution Map, 2nd question – Proclamation of 1763
Purpose of Stamp Act – British in debt and want $
Progressives in election of 1912 – run Teddy Roosevelt
Quote - answer was transcendentalism
Quote – answer was Brown v Board of Ed
Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
Civil War – All EXCEPT abolition of segregation
LBJ – All EXCEPT peace corps
1968 Election issues – All EXCEPT Watergate scandal
Constitution as written – provide for checks and balances
Why new imperialism – industrial expansion
Why Johnson impeached – he’s blocking Republican Reconstruction stuff
Congressional Reconstruction – SC and Miss. Elect black guys
New Immigrants – from South and East Europe
Mercantilism – more exports than imports
1990's - women's average pay still lagged behind men's
Roosevelt Corollary – intervention in Dominican Republic
Stayed true to GW’s neutrality – Monroe Doctrine
Jefferson Republicanism – more areas for families to farm
Civil War Union had all advantages except – raw materials for textiles
William Jennings Bryan – agrarian interests
Education – Horace Mann
Enter WW1 – Resumption of Unrestricted sub warfare
first great awakening - weakened clergy influence
second great awakening - middle class women advocate for reform
Battle of Saratoga – French join the war
Religious tolerance and pacifism - Pennsylvania
Freedom Summer of 1964 - Registered voters in deep south
Proclamation of 1763 (map)
Cartoon depicting most financially successful Americans being immigrants themselves
Booker T. Washington… Blacks should work hard for the economy.
Soviet Justifications for deployment of ballistic missiles in Cuba… (not American States approval)
Religious Tolerance and Pacifism in Pennsylvania during 1700s
Feminist movement achieves increased hiring in professions (I put Equal Rights Amendment, but later found out that it failed to ratify… <em>)
Erie Canal lessened price differences between NY and Buffalo
Fitzgerald and other authors’ disillusionment of materialistic society
Roosevelt Corollary… something about interfering in tariff collection in Dominican Republic
Lowell factories hired immigrants
Tonkin Gulf Resolution was justification for escalation of US troops in Vietnam.
The two question part, excerpt from 1941 speech by FDR: Lend-Lease Act
Part two of that question, US most concerned with GB's struggle with Nazi Germany
Science and Technology increases in US after the shock of Soviet launch of satellite (Sputnik)
Populist movement support coinage (backage w/e, it’s a history test not an econ test) of Silver
Checks and Balances were an answer
Graph population increase peaks during
German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare was a direct cause of WWI
Unemployment drops …. That is NOT what happened during the time span of 1929-32
Polk’s motive to go to Mexican War… territorial expansion
Debate sparks between pro and anti slavery because of Mexican War
Taft-Hartley act was an answer (business influence on government policy during 1940s)
Reconstruction-election of black officials, i remember this b/c i remembered reading how barack obama was the first black senator since reconstruction, and i was like *</em>
, there were black senators during reconstruction and i looked it up and sure enough there was a black senator from mississippi.</p>

<p>The jury's still out on:
WW1 – US goes from debtor to creditor nation (maybe have reduced tariffs, US already number one producter of steel)
Treaty of Versailles – All EXCEPT disarmament of major powers (it did mention disarmament, more likely answer involves poland or czechloslavakia)
Bacons rebellion – (Solidified distinction of classes wasn't an answer choice)
Open door policy (I don't remember this being asked))
Hudson School - Romantic landscape paintings (also could be impressionism or romanticism)
New Negro Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston – whites equal to blacks
Constitution explicitly guarantees all citizens to a speedy trial? (I'm not sure if this means straight up or including amendments, b/c two other options dealt with due process which wasn't a bill of rights amendment)</p>

<p>I said debtor.
The disarmament was proposed by wilsons 14 points IIRC
hudson - DEFINITELY romanticism
new negro - this was referring to the harlem renaissance of the 1920s. Whites = to blacks.
I think it is speedy trial because all the others seemed to have come from various acts.</p>

<p>That's my take.</p>