SAT II US History Study Thread

<p>Jane Adams. It was to help immigrants, ban child labor, "Americanize" the immigrants resulting their loss of culture. </p>

<p>What was the National Organization for Women?</p>

<p>Jane Addams. Hull House was a settlement house which provided assistance to immigrants living in poverty. It is commonly associated with the Progressive movement.</p>

<p>What were the Teller and Platt Amendments? (hence, how were they related?)</p>

<p>Eli Whitney invented interchangeable parts.</p>

<p>Eli Whitney inverted interchangeable parts sometime before the turn of the 19th Century.</p>

<p>Actually it was some British guy, but Whitney is best known for bringing that to America and the cotton gin. Any test will have Whitney as the right answer.</p>

<p>Teller Amendment states that America will not take over Cuba. Platt Amendment places restriction on Cuban soverignty like establishing a naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba can't make treaties, allow the US to preserve order.</p>

<p>Teller and Platt amendments both involved Cuba. Teller said that the US would grant Cuba independence after we liberated them, Platt Amendment we forced them to incorporate into their constitution, gave us military bases and essentially made Cuba a U.S. protectorate.</p>

<p>Who founded the American Socialist Party?</p>

<p>Eugene V. Debs </p>

<p>The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves part of the union. True or False</p>

<p>Teller and Platt were about Cube. Teller said we wouldn't completely control it. Platt said we would only keep military bases, Guantanamo and I think a few others were created, ut only Guantanamo is around today.</p>

<p>False, only those in Confederate states that were still in rebellion.</p>

<p>What battle prompted Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation?</p>

<p>Antietam. </p>

<p>The President associated with the Sellout of 1876 was...</p>

<p>Hayes? Sellout</p>

<p>Who was the only democratic president to be reelected after F.D.R?</p>

<p>Clinton?</p>

<p>How did Jefferson and Hamilton respond to the Alien and Sedition Acts?</p>

<p>Clinton</p>

<p>What was the state suicide theory, and who championed it?</p>

<p>They published the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. </p>

<p>What was the CIO?</p>

<p>Labor union that merged with AFL after WWII</p>

<p>Was the state suicide theory about southern states seceding, so they gave up their rights in Congress? I think it was Sumner?</p>

<p>CIO- Bunch of hardasses that split from the AFL, split didn't last long, really ****ed off and wanted gov't support and to get involved with politics, made up of unskilled workers</p>

<p>Yea, seceding states give up their rights as states and must be readmitted as territories, and yes, Sumner.</p>

<p>What was the Taft-Hartley Act?</p>

<p>What was the Bracero program?</p>