SAT II Prep: 3

Question 1

Pony Express

Answer 1

carried mail btwn St. Joseph and Sacramento

Question 2

“Hollywood Ten”

Answer 2

scriptwriters blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to answer questions posed by HUAAC

Question 3

Cattle boom, late 1800s

Answer 3

Factors ending: supply exceeded demand, barbed wire usage led to range wars btwn ranchers, severe weather conditions (1885-1887) killed hundreds of cattle, fencing off open range led to the need to buy land which depleted ranchers’ profits

Question 4

Baseball

Answer 4

Major league baseball allowed to operate as a monopoly

Question 5

Communism

Answer 5

leads Congress to reduce immigration quotas in 1921 and 1924

Question 6

Bartholomeo Vanzetti

Answer 6

“This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is an enemy of our existing institutions

Question 7

Revolutionary War

Answer 7

Brooklyn, Trenton, Brandywine. US had help from foreign people: Lafayette of France, Kosciusko of Poland, von Steuben of Germany, and leaders from Spanish Florida

Question 8

Coercive Acts of 1774

Answer 8

AKA the Intolerable Acts

Question 9

GI Bill

Answer 9

“Millions of people whose parents or grandparents had never dreamed of going to college saw that they could go…. Essentially I think it made us a far more democratic people.”

Question 10

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 10

“The thin disguise of ‘equal’ accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrond this day done.”

Question 11

Antietam

Answer 11

halted General Lee’s first invasion of Union; forced him to retreat

Question 12

Tennessee Valley Authority

Answer 12

brought aid to areas plagued by flooding, malnutrition, and poverty

Question 13

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 13

signed in Belgium

Question 14

Spanish-American War

Answer 14

fought in Philippines and Cuba

Question 15

Boulder/Hoover Dam

Answer 15

attempt by Hoover administration to combat effects of Great Depression

Question 16

Age of Exploration

Answer 16

Italy had no interest in setting up colonies. Ships include the Discovery, Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Mayflower.

Question 17

Vietnam War

Answer 17

“hawks” vs. “doves”: those for the war and those against it.

Question 18

National Park Service

Answer 18

established by federal government to supervise government-owned nature preserves and monuments

Question 19

Major strikes: 1919

Answer 19

Seattle General, Boston Police, Pennsylvania Steel, United Mine Workers.