<p>(and i am DONE now!!!*************)</p>
<p>everything you need to know is in those notes!!! ^^^^^ (pages 21-23)</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!! read them over!!! digest them!!! and get a fantastic score on the SAT Us History test~~!!! woo</p>
<p>I have a few questions that came up during studying:</p>
<p>1) what political parties split up into what during the pre-civil war period, especially during the KS-NB period?</p>
<p>2) can anyone help me review the Reconstuction plans?</p>
<p>The Whigs were split up. There were free soilers, southern, northern…</p>
<p>Well, Lincoln wanted the 10% plan as opposed to the radical Republican congress of 50%. These congressman also wanted to make sure Confederate leaders could never again hold a position in office. So then Lincoln died and his more democratic VP (who was used to balance the ticket) was really lenient towards the south. Congress tried to impeach him, but failed to remove him from office. This time was the Presidential Reconstruction Period. Congress tried to limit Andrew Johnson’s power w/ acts like the Tenure of Office Act. Johnson used his veto power extensively, so there was a stalemate and Congress could not get away with what they wanted. (punishing the South basically, helping the freed slaves) Politics were very corrupt in the south with carpetbaggers from the North and scalawags from the South holding office and making all the moneyy…</p>
<p>Then came the Congressional period. Republicans were really strict against the South. Also Radical reconstruction. The South had military districts but eventually congressmen from there were allowed to re-enter the political scene. End of reconstruction 1877, Home Rule. A lot of the civil right efforts of the Republicans were wiped away with Jim Crow laws (Grandfather clause, literacy tests…) and the KKK.</p>
<p>How similar/dissimilar is the SAT 2 from the AP US H test? I studied a lot for the AP test and I think I got a 5, but I basically haven’t studied at all for the SAT 2…should be reservoirs of knowledge from May be enough to get me to an 800?</p>
<p>What was the wade davis bill? I think it was similar to something, but I can’t remember. I do remember that it was vetoed by Lincoln, however.</p>
<p>what exactly is the underwood tariff!?!?!? so confusing</p>
<p>the geist i am getting is that it lowered the tariffs on necessities while implementing the first income tax (although the 16th amendment was passed long before) on the U.S citizens. The goal was to try to make money off tax/tariff instead of just protecting business.</p>
<p>am i right?</p>
<p>The Underwood Tariff was a tariff passed by Woodrow Wilson that lowered tariff rates. Wilson claimed that lowering the tariff would increase competition for businesses (with foreign ones) and would therefore help make the businesses more efficient. To make up for the revenue lost, a graduated income tax was put into effect, from 1-6%</p>
<p>What where the Platt and Tallehedge (sp??) Amendments.</p>
<p>Platt Amendment stated that Cuba was free but America could intervene to protect it</p>
<p>The Tallmadge Amendment was a precursor to the Misouri compromise that said that Missouri could enter as a free state, but slave children would be free at the age of 25.</p>
<p>Salutory neglect?</p>
<p>What were the goals of muckrakers? To expose conditions in the slums? Or the unsanitary conditions in tenants?</p>
<p>Salutary neglect is basically a blanket term for the time of colonial America from the 1600s to 1750s [until the French and Indian War] when England didn’t really bother with the colonies much, as: 1. they wanted to preserve the area as an ally against France 2. North American continental colonies weren’t that economically profitable as compared to say, the Caribbean sugar colonies, so it wasn’t that big a deal 3. Mercantilism - colonies were a good market for stuff manufactured in England, and mercantilism says that a country should export more than it imports, etc. All this stops with the French and Indian War, after which the English government has run up a big bill for protecting the colonies, institutes taxes, etc. etc. Revolution. The Navigation acts in the late 1600s can be seen as evidence against Salutary Neglect, but they weren’t that strictly enforced nor were they a direct tax [more a limit on trade] so that’s debatable.</p>
<p>Muckrakers weren’t that specific. Foremost, they just wanted to get a juicy, scandalous exposing story and publish that. Examples include “The Shame of the Cities” by Lincoln Steffens, “History of the Standard Oil Company” by Ida Tarbell, “A Century of Dishonor” by Helen Hunt Jackson, and most famously “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. Part of the whole Progressive motivation to make things better by pointing out problems.</p>
<p>^
Thank you; you made it ten times clearer than a history book</p>
<p>So what’s the deal with labor unions? Were they good or bad? There were a bunch of acts passed on it, i know. Didn’t government want to establish a laissez faire relationship? How did people feel about the political machine, boss tweed? Carnegie, Morgan, and Rockefeller?</p>
<p>Can anyone explain the Wade-Davis Bill?</p>
<p>Dumb q, but what are “trusts” and “tariffs?” Why are high tariffs bad, and why did Roosevelt want to trust-bust?</p>
<p>Simple concept questions, but they’d really help me.</p>
<p>cadillac:
The Wade Davis Bill was a bill that the radical republicans were trying to pass after the Civil War. They wanted to increase the percentage of people that needed to take the loyalty oath from 10% to 50%. They also wanted to only allow non-Confederates to vote for a new state constitution. The Bill as vetoed by Lincoln.</p>
<p>Prism:
A trust is formed when a group of companies comes together and establishes a board of trustees that would organize production for the companies. Because of trusts, competition was reduced and companies could set prices to whatever they wanted to. This is why Roosevelt wanted to bust up trusts; so that there could be more competition, companies would try to be more efficient, and prices would drop.</p>
<p>High tariffs aren’t necessarily bad. A tariff is a tax placed on something that is imported from another country. If you have high tariffs, Americans will want to buy American goods instead of foreign goods because American goods would be cheaper. However, if we stopped buying foreign goods, foreign countries would stop buying American products, which was one of the causes behind the Great Depression</p>
<p>Cadillac: The Wade-Davis Bill is the plan that the Radical Republicans pushed for during Reconstruction for the re-admitting of Confederate states. It required 50% of the pop. to swear loyalty (50% vote) and that high ranking Confederate leaders can’t gain political power anymore. It was very strict, and was pocket vetoed by Lincoln. </p>
<p>Trusts- One person owns property instead of like shared. But it’s also when huge companies combine to gain more power. It’s used to describe monopolies hence Roosevelt “busted the trusts” with more regulation. This is b/c the general consensus was that big businesses should not have so much power and should be regulated- monopolies = bad.</p>
<p>Tariffs- taxes on imports. High tariffs are frowned upon b/c it prohibits international trade/globalization and throughout history has hurt farmers more. They are the ones who need to buy goods and with high tariffs, the only manufactured goods they can really get are domestic, which are still priced very high. On the other hand, high tariffs are good for merchant b/c they can sell their goods more easily.</p>
<p>I just took a SparkNotes test and scored a 630. Is the real thing a little easier?</p>
<p>from what I’ve heard to get a correct score… add +40 onto what you got off of Sparknotes</p>
<p>And so the last couple of hours of prep are upon us. Good luck guys!</p>
<p>Good luck Jakeus, you’ve been a regular contributor on this thread and you know what you’re doing, so 800, here you come!</p>