<p>Seeing how the US History Subject Test is next week I thought we should start a thread like we did for APs. Basically ask any questions on the thread that you have and try to answer ones that people have previously posted.</p>
<p>very very cool idea</p>
<p>i cant think of a question right now, but i will post here when i got one :)</p>
<p>any tips for stuff on pre-columbian america
when the spanish colony was ruling and everything?</p>
<p>oh yah and can someone explain what socialist and capatalists are?
yes i know, owned, how do i not know those two, but some general facts bout em?</p>
<p>There wasn’t much on PRE-Columbian America, but there was a fair amount on explorers and such. I would do a quick review over the explorers, which countries they came from, and why. To get a better feel for what kinda questions they ask I’d look for the SAT II USH May thread, someone posted a list with every question they asked in there.</p>
<p>And Socialism is basically a lot more government regulation and ownership (e.g. Canada has socialized medicine, think of that if you can’t remember). Capitalism is more of laissez faire economics with limited government ownership/involvement with corporations. Karl Marx is associated with socialism/communism (I’m blanking, I can’t think of whether or not he is called the father of it) and Adam Smith is the Father of Capitalism.</p>
<p>There’s not much you need to know about socialism on the test. Eugene V. Debs and Upton Sinclair were the only socialists I can remember seeing on the test.</p>
<p>And excuse me if anything I just said turns out to be wrong, it’s late at night and I’m doubting my knowledge. ha.</p>
<p>Maybe we could start a list of key authors of relatively obscur books that usually show up on the test… Here’s a few:</p>
<p>Helen Hunt Jackson - describes how Indians were mistreated
Walter Rauschenbusch - Social Gospel
Henry Demarest Lloyd - Wealth Against Commonwealth
Ida Tarbell - History of the Standard Oil Company
Lincoln Steffens - muckracker about corrupt government in cities
Theodore Dreiser’s The Financier and The Titan - criticized industrialists
Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives - how terrible tenement life is
William Randolph Hearst - New York Journal
Joseph Pulitzer - New York World</p>
<p>^^ Know Pulitzer and Hearst came up with Yellow Journalism.</p>
<p>Alfred Thayer Mahan - The Influence of Seapower upon History
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle</p>
<p>The only ones I can come up with are the obvious ones. How post-WWII questions do you predict?? </p>
<p>Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, Baby Boomers, Hippies… I guess that’s a lot. </p>
<p>Emphasis on pre- or post- 20th century???</p>
<p>Is there much on settlement of colonies, pilgrims, native Americans? Because I haven’t looked that stuff over and don’t plan on it. Don’t forget to look over the cases, important documents, and amendments. It always shows up on the practice tests.</p>
<p>Pinkstarcloud, you may want to review those topics since they make up a decent amount of questions.</p>
<p>Are you all reading through the entire review book?? It’s taking me a long time for some reason… plus I’m trying to read and take notes on Bio so that’s been getting a lot more of my attention…</p>
<p>So are you word for word reading?? Or just reviewing and skimming a little?</p>
<p>I read through AMSCO for the May test and did pretty well so I plan to do it for the June test too. It does take a lot of effort to maintain your concentration while reading it.</p>
<p>Well I took APUSH last year and read every single chapter of our textbook, The American Pageant I believe it was. Do you think that will be enough plus some light reading of the SparkNotes review?? Or the AP PR book??</p>
<p>Ill ask a question…</p>
<p>What book made the US focus more on environmental situations and changes</p>
<p>A. Feminine Mystique
B. Silent Spring
C. The Jungle
D. How the Other Half Lives
E. Some other choice haha</p>
<p>easy question
just to get this thread on track</p>
<p>lol… silent spring… duh…</p>
<p>I also read Spark Notes before the test and it was quite useful (especially if you’ve already had AP US History, as you have). I think that will be enough.</p>
<p>Ugh so colonies and pilgrims do make up a great deal of the test? Great…</p>
<p>The American Pageant was what I used this year in AP History. It worked pretty well for me except for the explorers and early colonization of America. But maybe that was in the first chapter, which I didn’t read. And 1970+ which we hadn’t gotten to when I took the SAT II gave me some trouble.</p>
<p>B Silent Spring</p>
<p>rk33: The first chapter was early history so the explorers and native americans were in it if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>Pinkstarcloud: It’s not as hard as you think. If you kind of the know the general descriptions of the colonies you’re set.</p>
<p>back to asking questions: </p>
<p>What was the Stimson Doctrine??</p>