**Official June 2013 SAT II US History Thread**

<p>actually Hamilton thought virtue was with the wealthy businessman and jefferson thought virtue was with the small farmer so they disagreed about the natural goodness of people</p>

<p>The key to the Jefferson/Hamilton/Jackson and whatever the other answers was in the question. It asked which one sounded the most like a strict-constructionist view if I remember correctly, and Jefferson is a strict constructionist whereas Hamilton is a loose one. The only thing that really bothered me was the Jefferson was criticized with the Louisiana Purchase that I believe he was paired with, because it was a loose constructionist action… I put Jefferson, but not completely sure still… :/</p>

<p>Strict constructionist had to be the Jackson veto. All the others were loose constructionist/Jeffersonian stuff, and I know that Jackson used the veto to enforce his political “philosophy,” which, according to his Democratic Party’s historic platform, includes strict constructionism.</p>

<p>In the collegeboard book, it said the curve is 11 omitted is still an 800. Isn’t this true?</p>

<p>What was the full answer to the strict constructionist q? Wha exactly did Jackson veto?</p>

<p>It was jackson’s maywell bill veto or something or another and it said " which one of these actions displays a strict interpretation"?</p>

<p>*maysville road bill</p>

<p>I thought i did pretty well probs 700’s, so if anybody has any questions i’m here for u…ask away</p>

<p>I meant to say high 700’s ^</p>

<p>What was the answer to the question about new deal farm programs? That they were under the guise of being called soil conservation?
What about the land ordinance act? I put A, but I dint think it was right.
Lastly the question about republicans vs militant abolitionists, what was the difference?</p>

<p>New deal farm programs= to raise prices of crops, land ordinance i put c im not positive on that one tho, and that republicans were sympathetic to slavery…abolitionists=want to get rid of slavery</p>

<p>Is the curve still 11 omitted = an 800 since it says so in the collegeboard subject test book?</p>

<p>The curve has supposedly gotten harsher since that curve was published, but a lot of people seem to have found this test harder than usual, so I think there’s a good chance that it’ll stay at around 79 = 800.</p>

<p>According to spark notes (so it must be true) they tailor the curve separately to each test, so we can only guesstimate the curve based off old curves</p>

<p>Can someone explain the pragmatism question to me? I put transcendentalism.</p>

<p>What you guys get for the question asking about what is true about the Antebellum South? I put something like the gap between rich and poor decreased as slavery increased.</p>

<p>I didn’t get that question, but the answer was that the majority of southerner weren’t that wealthy or something like that</p>

<p>Pragmatism is the idea that one could test the success of anything based on its practical application. The quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes talks about how laws should be judged by on experience. Transcendentalism is the idea that people should reconnect with nature and God.</p>

<p>The antebellum south q’s answer was that the majority of white southerners were farmers not plantation owners and pragmatism is correct for the other one</p>

<p>but how was it pragmatism → then quote (if i remember correctly) was about inner emotions above reason… isn’t that transcendentalism? or was the quote the opposite? I might have misread.</p>