November 2008 SAT Subject Test: US History

<p>I thought it was slightly difficult as well...too many details and analysis questions; not enough of those trivia ones. Though I was quite excited to see Boss Tweed once again in a Nast cartoon...haven't seen one of those since APUSH. lol</p>

<p>hehe, seeing that Thomas Nast cartoon put a smile on my face. :)</p>

<p>I hope I broke 700... I can never tell for U.S. History. The three tests I've taken all seem to have the same difficulty level, but my score has varied.</p>

<p>Boss Tweed and Thomas Nast...legitimate, is what I'd call that...lol</p>

<p>Yeah, I agree Phishy. I could've sworn I aced my last one in June, but instead I got a 700 flat...I was confused.</p>

<p>can we get some questions going?</p>

<p>Yeah...Populists...what was the key thing they wanted? Gold standard, right?</p>

<p>No, they wanted unlimited coinage of silver iirc.</p>

<p>Dang...was it universal suffrage then?</p>

<p>no i put raise tarrifs for the populist one...which i think is wrong.</p>

<p>I put down Direct election of senators since I vaguely remember hearing it during APUSH;;</p>

<p>Populists supported expanded suffrage (for women), but not to the extent of being universal.
+ Populists were farmers, so they hated the McKinley Tariff, me thinks. ;o</p>

<p>for populist question, i put income tax. Wasn't income tax part of their party platform? it was ignored and than later on became an amendment (16th) as long as i remember. guys, what about the railroad Q? the one with the map and the one w/o the map..</p>

<p>lol...so we have one advocate for each of the answer choices...this represents the test fairly well...</p>

<p>Which ones are you talking about exactly, Diana Oh?</p>

<p>oh wait! i put direct election, not the income tax. kk (i just remembered the fact that two things - direct election and income tax were populist platform which were ignored and than ratified later on ... got confused!) yess the answer is DIRECT ELECTION, i think.</p>

<p>bout the railroad Q, i mean "Which of the following cities benefited the most from the railroad construction" or sth like that. the one with the map was.. which of the following can we infer from the map? blahblah.. i put "rr was crucial for the Northeastern economy but not for the southern economy" but i am not sure about the city question. anyone?</p>

<p>^ The city one was Chicago, I think. Boston, New York, and New Orleans (?) couldn't have, since they were ocean and riverside. The other one I can't remember, but I think Chicago is where a lot of railroads pass through even now.</p>

<p>The map...i thikn what you said is correct.</p>

<p>oh,,**** i think i put Boston for that. I had NO IDEA at first but when i saw that map on next page, i thought the answer was Boston, according to that map.. dang.. i think igot that wrong :( what bout Land ordinance act Q (like #3 or #4 on the very first page) and the portrait Q of Paul Revere? i put "square grid + land sale" and "condescending view" for each Q. How about you guys?</p>

<p>I thought it was the five years thing...cause the land was bad, and they gave you your land to settle, but you had to make it good...idk. I was thinking about the land grid thing, but it was weird...</p>

<p>Condescending view for Paul Revere, yeah.</p>

<p>but when you google Land ordinace act of 1785, you get sth like this "Land was to be systematically surveyed into square "townships", six miles (9.656 km) on a side. Each of these townships were sub-divided into thirty-six "sections" of one square mile (2.59 km²) or 640 acres. These sections could then be further subdivided for sale to settlers and land speculators."</p>

<p>am i still wrong? i'm confused...</p>

<p>i put the grid thing cuz the othe rplausible option was referring to the original 13 colonies which were already settled</p>

<p>Nah, you're probably right then. Dang...I knew I should've put that one...</p>

<p>what was the question referring to the mormons? was it that they were persecuted for their polygamy?</p>

<p>Polygamy yes. </p>

<p>Brigham young sent them over to Utah b/c they were being persecuted for their heterodox marriage views, but then died, and was replaced by the smith guy if I remember correctly. </p>

<p>Chicago and the other one that was matched with it for the city that benefitted fm the railroad. I put this because of the Gadsden purchase, where that one senator (his name escapes me at this moment) wanted to purchase that small strip of land for the purpose of running a railroad through Chicago. Many cities competed for railroad tracks as they were a sure source of economic prosperity. Additionly NY had the erie canal and canals/river travel was a competitor of railroads.</p>

<p>Got the land ordinance one wrong b/c I mixed it up with the Northwest Ordinance .</p>