SAT II Prep: 4

Question 1

1851 conference btwn U.S. and Native Americans

Answer 1

tribes agreed not to migrate freely throughout the Plains anymore.

Question 2

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Answer 2

Slave cannot gain freedom by moving to free state/territory, slaves=property, Founding Fathers did not intend for slaves to become citizens, Missouri Compromise violated 5th Amendment

Question 3

Vanzetti and Sacco

Answer 3

convicted of murder

Question 4

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 4

veterans can attend college

Question 5

freedom of press in a republic

Answer 5

example: disclosure of high crimes committed by Nixon administration

Question 6

“gag rule”, 1837

Answer 6

established by Democrats

Question 7

Confederacy in the Civil War

Answer 7

hoped for a military alliance with Britain and France due to the Union having a larger industrial base than that of the Confederacy

Question 8

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 8

critic of the ERA, saying that it gave too much freedom to women that would result in unwanted consequences: i.e. a mandatory draft

Question 9

Comstock Lode

Answer 9

discovered 1857 in present-day Nevada

Question 10

George Rogers Clark in the Revolution

Answer 10

captured forts Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes.

Question 11

Anasazis

Answer 11

lived in houses of rock and adobe

Question 12

Pierce

Answer 12

incumbent president during the Gadsgen Purchase

Question 13

Civilian Conservation Corps

Answer 13

created to reform business and guard against another stock market crash

Question 14

Revolutionary War

Answer 14

“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”

Question 15

Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas

Answer 15

posted National Guard at Little Rock high school, closed Little Rock public schools for one school year, established private all-white schools in Little Rock, spoke out against forced integration of Arkansas schools. “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

Question 16

Korean War

Answer 16

“Our diplomats and their advisers…lost sight of our tremendous stake in a non-Communist China….This House must now assume the responsibility of preventing the onrushing tide of communism from engulfing all of Asia

Question 17

American Colonization Society

Answer 17

help free African Americans resettle in northwestern Africa

Question 18

American Indian movement, 1970s

Answer 18

recovered thousands of acres of ancestral tribal lands in Maine and New Mexico

Question 19

National Recovery Act in 1933

Answer 19

stabilize prices, create jobs through public-works projects, industries become self-regulating, raise wages

Question 20

Progressivism

Answer 20

“Who pays the big election expenses of your congressman?…Do you imagine those who foot those huge bills are fools? Don’t you know that they make sure of getting their money back, with interest?”

Question 21

Articles of Confederation

Answer 21

gave federal gov’t no control over revenue from the states

Question 22

Edith Wharton

Answer 22

wrote about conspicuous consumption

Question 23

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 23

integrated armed forces

Question 24

strike at Carnegie Steel Company (Homestead, PA, 1892)

Answer 24

management locked workers out of the plant before replacing them with new workers and hiring guards to protect the plant