U.S. History SAT II Discussion

<p>can we even assume the answer choices are true? jackson was born in the South Carolina backwoods and i dont think he moved from there until he was 14... he wasn't exactly the image of the southern plantation owner presiding over a vast plantation and getting rich... i think that's one of the reasons he did get elected</p>

<p>i did a google search of the quaratine speech, and it seems to the the vigilance of aggressive nations. :(</p>

<p>no concensus yet on the jackson question? How was the plantation answer phrased?</p>

<p>For the jackson one, I put the Bank because the breaking of the bank led to economic recession in the states. I wasn't completely sure though, but it seemed about right to me.</p>

<p>Overall, the test was sort of easy in my opinion.</p>

<p>well, the bank represented monied people, and it favored the rich, so his opposition to it was showed his common man image. the consequences may have hurted the common people, but the fact he stood against the bank reflected his common man image, because the bank was seen as benefiting the powerful.</p>

<p>That was definitely Rotation of Offices. Jackson was noted for his "politics of common man" and having larger participation of the people in political processes. A large part of this was having people elect people to offices. Rotation of Offices involves Jackson appointing various people who had democratic ties to offices without any participation from the people.</p>

<p>Who had the speech that said women played a large role in the war? I narrowed it down to Wilson and FDR and in the end chose FDR.</p>

<p>who that peggy eaton in one of the answers?</p>

<p>i just googled her, and found that she was some woman that had an affair with jackson and was part of some scandal with jackson. i don't see how that has any connection with his image as a "common man".</p>

<p>it had to be wilson because the quote was urging for women's suffrage. suffrage was early 1920 or late 1910s, and so FDR definitely can't have said that one since it was already a done deal by the 1930s/40s.</p>

<p>and i dont believe jackson had an affair with eaton, but he just defended her when all the other cabinet wives started being cruel to her for coming from a modest (and somewhat questionable) background. That eliminates that answer choice, since Eaton was a commoner and jackson's sympathy for her bettered his own image as the "common man"</p>

<p>Wilson was right for the women's suffrage one.
I'm still curious to see what the right answer was for the jackson one. I'm hoping it was the bank.</p>

<p>what was the thing that wasn't characteristic of the 1940s? I put that the labor movement was peaceful since there were some strikes during the 1940s and the taft hartley act stirred some anger too...</p>

<p>i wrote the suburban becuase i thought that was characteristic of the 1950's when the interstate highway was completed</p>

<p>for the 40s question, i put the labor union thing.</p>

<p>i also put "Peaceful labor relations" for that one.</p>

<p>how about the question comparing mass. puritans to penn. quakers? I put they tolerated dissenters.</p>

<p>I also put that they tolerated dissenters.</p>

<p>I just googled the one about the "tenth" intellectual one. I had put Booker T Washington, but it turned out to be W.E.B DuBois. :(</p>

<p>yupyup. was macarthur fired and raw cotton the major crop? </p>

<p>wat about, recons. failed because of the following except?</p>

<p>darn. i'm pretty sure i put the guy i didn't know.</p>

<p>thats what i got =)</p>

<p>i put macarthur and raw cotton. </p>

<p>how about the battle of yorktown one. something about significance of the battle, but i forget. i guessed on it.</p>