Official November 4th U.S History SAT II thread

<p>according to the Princeton Review curve i have, you can miss 22-23 and get a 700 (assuming you answered all 90 questions).</p>

<p>the real curve for 700 is like 63/90... but who wants to get 700?</p>

<p>any more quesitons?</p>

<p>Wilson cartoon
- I put keeping America out of the war while increasing US military might.</p>

<p>Exodusters
- I put miners in California. But after a little research, the answer's definitely Kansas.</p>

<p>Civil War Union General quote
- George McClellan, who was an excellent organizer of troops (though always reluctant to put them into battle)</p>

<p>President Polk's "Fifty-four Forty or fight"
- Threat to the Brits/Canadians to either give up Oregon Territory/move border up north to 54' 40 or war</p>

<p>Colonial America mostly comprised of:
- Farmers</p>

<p>In the Adams-Onis Treaty
- Spain and US negotiate the purchase of Florida, leaving the United States free to expand into the southwest in the absence of Spain and Britain.</p>

<p>Bacon's Rebellion of 1676
- led by a group of freed men, many of them former indentured servants, to protest against the rather lenient Native American policies of Virginia Governor William Berkeley.</p>

<p>What Native Peoples of North AND South America had achieved
- "Advanced civilizations with GREAT CITIES, IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, road networks, and commerce. The Mayas of Central America used written language, HIGHER MATHEMATICS, and a very accurate CALENDAR."
- What they hadn't achieved: Wheels</p>

<p>Teddy Roosevelt, Alfred Mahan, Henry Cabot Lodge
- NOT in favor of Alaskan purchase from Russia</p>

<p>New/Unresolved Questions:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>What was NOT a controversy between strict/loose interpretations of the Constitution?</p></li>
<li><p>Purpose of the Westward expansion poster? to attract settlers?</p></li>
<li><p>The assembly line contributed to- mass production?</p></li>
<li><p>New England textile manufacturers of the 1820s employed what group of people? </p></li>
<li><p>The main reason the south lost the civil war was-?</p></li>
<li><p>The United States viewed the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949 as- a menacing monolith?</p></li>
<li><p>Progressives/reformers of the late 19th century contributed to the city EXCEPT? - forcing poor/African Americans out of the slums?</p></li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>What was NOT a controversy between strict/loose interpretations of the Constitution?
I put Gadsden Purchase.</li>
<li>Purpose of the Westward expansion poster? to attract settlers?
Yes.</li>
<li>The assembly line contributed to- mass production?
Yes.</li>
<li>New England textile manufacturers of the 1820s employed what group of people?
women </li>
<li>The main reason the south lost the civil war was-?
something about not using their resource efficiently (other choice was British boycotting Southern cotton but that couldn't have been the main reason)</li>
<li>The United States viewed the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949 as- a menacing monolith?
it was an EXCEPT question...I forgot.</li>
</ul>

<p>What about the one about the atomic bomb? It was an EXCEPT question. Choices included America being the only one who developed the atomic bomb by 1945, Japan almost perfecting the atomic bomb, America only have 2 atomic bombs in their arsenal (I chose this one because it seemed weird to me , but I'm probably wrong.), and I don't remember.</p>

<p>EXCEPT: Japan almost perfected the atomic bomb>> impossible. The Japanese were completely taken by surprise, since they'd never seen such a powerful weapon before. They wouldn't quickly surrender just 6 days after the bomb they had developed one in the first place.
- I think it was Germany that almost developed atomic technology.</p>

<p>i dont remember "Japan almost perfecting the atomic bomb" as a choice...i picked america had 2 atomic bombs</p>

<p>Ok this question's just obscure. What exactly is the purpose of knowing how many A-Bombs America had?</p>

<p>what about the question where henry cabot lodge was speaking...was he criticizing the republicans foreign policy or was he urging an expansionist foreign policy</p>

<p>nvm he was a republican</p>

<p>at first I chose he criticized Republican foreign policy, but later changed it to urgeing an expansionist policy. Expansion into the northwest shouldn't really be catagorized as part of the "foreign policy," should it?</p>

<p>ralph nader question? it was something like "what did ralph nader contribute to US policy"?
CONSUMER GOODS protection?</p>

<p>i think one of the other choices was taxes?
does anyone remember what the other 3 choices were?</p>

<p>about the foreign policy question, lodge was expansionist (checked online)</p>

<p>America out of the war while increasing US military might. (how did the wilson cartoon show increase in military might???)</p>

<p>Civil War Union General quote
- George McClellan, who was an excellent organizer of troops (though always reluctant to put them into battle)
(Does everyone agree? It could have been Sherman right and a qoute for the Confederate side right? cuz there was a lot of ..."we can't change their minds but we can through war..")</p>

<p>Atom Bomb "Except" Question:
-US only had 2 bombs (they had 3 right?) I AGREE w/ Blah 123... i don't think japan perfecting was even a choice.
-Truman dropped it (true)
-US only one w/ atom bomb (is this True or False?? (did russia have 1 too?)
-Japan almost perfecting technology (FALSE)- WAS THIS EVEN A CHOICE? SEEMS ODD</p>

<p>i did some more research- </p>

<p>-the US at the time WAS the only one w/ atom bomb, russia 1st dev. in 1949. </p>

<p>-JAPAN was perfecting it's technology (they had begun a project in the 1940s) (but again, i think the answer choice was GERMANY not Japan)</p>

<p>-therefore, the answer is that the US only had 2 atom bombs??? (i need help w/ this) See below: </p>

<p>The only nuclear test explosion, code-named Trinity, was of a plutonium device; it took place on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, N.Mex. The first uranium bomb (“Little Boy”) was delivered untested....On Aug. 9, 1945, a plutonium bomb virtually identical to the Trinity device was dropped on Nagasaki, killing at least 35,000 inhabitants.</p>

<p>So is the one at Trinity also counted?</p>

<p>(that would make the choice the US only had two atom bombs the right answer to the Except question?)</p>

<p>The Glorious Revolution question:</p>

<p>didn't that lead to the Navigation Acts? That's what I put..</p>

<p>The breakup of the Dominion of New England... wasn't that a result of some protest or something within the colonies themselves?</p>

<p>no. it broke up the dominion.</p>

<p>"Civil War Union General quote"
It was sherman not the other guy. Sherman's march to the sea devastated everything in his path and in the quote he said something like "we have to beat them so that they will never want to think about war again"</p>

<p>yeah the Glorious Revolution dethroned the King who had General Andros in control of the New England Dominion (massachusets and the states around it were combined to make the NE Dominion because they were ****ing the king off).</p>

<p>So when the king was dethroned, Andros also lost his power...and if i remember correctly, he was caught trying to run away dressed up like a woman? hmmm....or was it Gage</p>

<p>The Atomic bomb EXCEPT Question:</p>

<p>I think "Japan almost perfecting the bomb" was a choice, and I chose that one, because there's absolutely no evidence suggesting that Japan even knew what nuclear technology was at the at the time. </p>

<p>The U.S. did only have two bombs AT THE TIME: "Little boy" and "Fat man" << I think the purpose of this choice was to see if you know how many bombs were actually dropped.</p>