<p>Shizzle, the Fugitive Slave Act that was passed as part of the Compromise didn’t ‘make’ slaves property, per se - instead, it reconfirmed the rights of slave owners to take possession of their property. In the eyes of the law, slaves had long been considered property.</p>
<p>Also, as a side note, many Northern municipalities and states responded to the Fugitive Slave Act by passing ‘personal liberty laws’ that guaranteed slaves a number of legal rights; in essence, these PLLs were attempts to prevent/delay slave owners from quickly reclaiming their ‘property’.</p>
<p>Yeah that. Perhaps we should move to multiple choice format b/c I don’t like short answer. lol. Sorry selfish of me. I’ll find some multiple choice and post them in a bit.</p>
<p>Which of the following characterized colonial Pennsylvania in the 1700s?</p>
<p>(A) its highly developed banking and commercial networks
(B) the lowest death rate in the colonies
(C) its large population of German settlers who became skilled farmers and tradesmen
(D) its exceptionally friendly relations with local Native American tribes
(E) the New Worlds first successful cultivation of West Indian tobacco</p>
<p>“Germans. This group of non-English immigrants settled chiefly on the rich famrlands west of Philadelphia, an area that became known as Pennsylvania Dutch country. They maintained their German language, customs, and religion (Lutheran) and, while obeying colonial laws, showed little interest in English politics…” (43)</p>
<p>BUT I do think D is also appropriate.
“Also unusual was Penn’s attempt to treat the Native Americans fairly and not to cheat them when purchasing their land” (30).</p>
<p>Granted, that’s in the late 1600s, not the 1700s.</p>
<p>Here’s a bit of information lifted from Sparknotes that I honestly hadn’t heard before:</p>
<p>“Life was fairly stable for New Englanders. They often lived 1525 years longer than their British counterparts or colonists in other regions, due in part to a better diet.”</p>
<p>What provided the biggest obstacle to union success in the latter half of the nineteenth century?</p>
<p>(A) federal laws, mostly passed during the Cleveland administration, forced labor unions to meet all sorts of criteria in order to organize
(B) as industry spread throughout the country, workers were dispersed, so the labor movement consisted of only tiny, isolated uprising.
(C) Andrew Carnegie won over the hearts of middle-class America with his Gospel of Wealth, so that workers won little or no win sympathy from the general public
(D) the Civil War left the country struggling with civil rights issues, so the plight of industrial workers was not a national priority
(E) most laborers, both skilled and unskilled, were not members of unions, rendering the labor movement largely ineffective</p>
<p>Again the answer that I picked, but the right answer is E</p>
<p>Explanation that helped me understand it:</p>
<p>“Although some unions boasted of a large membership base—the Knights of Labor (1869), for example, had some half million members—the labor movement, on the whole, was very limited. Nationwide, less than three percent of American workers were unionized. Unable to harness the power of the working class, unions were largely ineffective.”</p>
<p>I was so nervous when I kept reading so many people claim that Sparknotes was just as easy as the actual test. Bunch of BS though. The week before my test I took the middle 20 questions in a Sparknotes test and got like 10/20 wrong. (Got 790 on my actual test). One thing I’ve noticed about Sparknotes tests is that they don’t put a lot of effort into the incorrect answer choices. On CB tests, the incorrect answer choices will either be the opposite of the correct answer, the correct answer to a different question, or something else related to certain theme. Whereas in Sparknotes, you’ll see wrong answers like “drunk driving” to questions about the 1800s…</p>
<p>Man, the Barron’s practice exams are impossible!</p>
<p>Secretary of State George C. Marshall was credited with stemming the spread of communism by his proposal to</p>
<p>(A) create economic conditions favorable to the development of free institutions
(B) unite the free nations in western Europe against Russian attack
(C) gave military assistance to nations opposing communism
(D) dispatch technical assistance to the world’s underdeveloped countries
(E) impose a trade embargo on the Soviet Union and its satellites</p>
<p>I can’t find the answer anywhere in my history book! Who on earth is George C. Marshall?!</p>
<p>Pinkstar; yes you have. Have you heard of the Marshall plan? When I first read the question, I had no idea either. But the answer choices triggered the Marshall Plan, which I knew was about the US giving economic aid to Europe after World War II. You can then eliminate all of them except A.</p>
<p>Pinkstarcloud: Marshall=Marshall Plan after WWII I’m pretty sure. An economic plan for the reconstruction of Europe after the war. So I’m going to go (A) on that.</p>
<p>Yeah. I’m pretty sure the answer is A. However, I always get the ideas of Marshall and Kennan confused. Marshall wanted to economically better the European nations (that are not communist) and Kennan wanted to “contain” communism, right?</p>