SAT II Prep: 1

Question 1

Tea Act of 1773

Answer 1

Tax that was opposed by colonists that didn’t want “taxation without representation”

Question 2

muckraking

Answer 2

investigative journalists uncovered much filth in scandals: Teddy Roosevelt’s term for it

Question 3

Kennedy

Answer 3

the only president that was a Catholic as opposed to Protestant. After assassination, commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren investigated

Question 4

Europe, 1922: Pre-WWII

Answer 4

German conquered countries include France and Belgium

Question 5

Fourteen Points

Answer 5

presented January 1918: created by President Wilson to assure people that WWI was fought for a moral and just cause

Question 6

Terrorism, 1980-2000

Answer 6

Reagan orders bombing attack on Libya: Gadhafi

Question 7

Automation, 1950-1969

Answer 7

gradual change from agricultural/manufacturing economy to service economy

Question 8

Protectorate

Answer 8

country that accepts protection in exchange for right of other country to intervene in its affairs: ex. Cuba and the Platt Amendment

Question 9

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 9

right of black men to vote: 1869/1870 (ratified)

Question 10

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Answer 10

first European to cross isthmus of Panama: thought that Pacific Ocean was South Sea

Question 11

Ralph Nader

Answer 11

known for concern for consumer interests as a presidential candidate (1960s)

Question 12

Progressive Movement

Answer 12

improve slums; teach immigrants English; passage of legislation to make workplace safer; public baths, parks, and playgrounds

Question 13

1938: Alien threats

Answer 13

originated from radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds” and Mercury Theater

Question 14

“Lost Generation”

Answer 14

a group of writers that lost illusions of honor and glory in WWI

Question 15

“Iron Curtain”

Answer 15

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent

Question 16

Socialism

Answer 16

Labor is higher than capital: the worker should get the fruits of his work.

Question 17

Herbert Hoover

Answer 17

people lost confidence in Hoover because his policies did not create right away a change in the economic depression

Question 18

Saturday Night Massacre

Answer 18

Attorney General Eliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus chose to resign rather than fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox

Question 19

Four-Power Treaty, 1921

Answer 19

France, Britain, Japan, and US agreement

Question 20

Vietnam War

Answer 20

many college students responded negatively to this war, choosing to flee to Canada rather than be drafted

Question 21

Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 21

U.S. redoubled attempts to move Native Americans onto reservations

Question 22

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 22

Confederate Army lost due to Union’s advantage of high ground

Question 23

Iroquois Confederacy

Answer 23

earliest example of American republican government

Question 24

Promontory Point, Utah

Answer 24

the Wedding of the Rails: Union Pacific and Central railroads meet to form transcontinental railroad

Question 25

Farmers’ Alliance, 1870s

Answer 25

cooperatives to buy equipment/market products, low-cost insurance, tougher bank regulations, help members in times of drought

Question 26

labor unions

Answer 26

Progressive reformers encouraged union growth

Question 27

Hawaii, 1898

Answer 27

Factors leading to statehood: passage of McKinley Tariff, Secret Hawaiian League, McKinley as president, rebellion of Hawaiians in support of annexation (1893)

Question 28

54th Regiment

Answer 28

first African-American regiment to play a major role in military campaign

Question 29

War Powers Act

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response to Vietnam War

Question 30

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Answer 30

U.S. can govern/control Canal Zone in Panama

Question 31

Watergate Scandal

Answer 31

involved many of Nixon’s cabinet members

Question 32

Women at war

Answer 32

Clara Barton, Mary Ludwig Hayes, Deborah Sampson, Tokyo Rose

Question 33

Great Society

Answer 33

Lyndon B. Johnson’s domestic programs that had ambitions for changing “society.”