SAT II Prep: 5

Question 1

Crisis of Nicaragua

Answer 1

Reagan administration authorized continued federal aid to Nicaraguan Contras, defying Boland Amendment

Question 2

Farmers’ issues, mid-1800s

Answer 2

supply of crops exceeded demand, debt from purchases of land or equipment, prices of crops fell, no protective tariffs on imported crops

Question 3

International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union

Answer 3

succeeded in raising wages, shortening workweek. Membership rose by 10,000s. African-American women became involved in the strike

Question 4

Clinton Administration

Answer 4

economic prosperity, federal budget surpluses, low unemployment, passage of social legislation

Question 5

Bursum Bill

Answer 5

“This bill will destroy our common life and will rob us of everything which we hold dear–our lands, our customs, our traditions.” this bill deprived the Pueblo Native Americans of their land, leaving Mexican and American claimants to grapple over possession of the land.

Question 6

Union generals during the Civil War

Answer 6

William Tecumseh Sherman, Ambrose Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellan

Question 7

Anaconda Plan

Answer 7

Union blockade of Confederate ports, destroy Southern railroads and industries, seize the Mississippi, assault coastal ports to seize trading vessels

Question 8

“Square Deal”

Answer 8

limited power of trusts, promoted public health and safety, improved working conditions for laboring class, balanced interests of big business, consumers, and labor

Question 9

Powell v. Alabama

Answer 9

death sentences of “Scottsboro boys” revoked on grounds that defendants were denied right to due process of law

Question 10

Great Plains Wars

Answer 10

Sioux led by Sitting Bull

Question 11

Nativism

Answer 11

violent acts against immigrants, candalized Catholic churches, formed political party supporting restrictions on immigration, elected officials that discriminated against immigrants

Question 12

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Answer 12

wrote diary chronicling daily life on plantation during the Civil War

Question 13

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 13

signed by Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando, and David Lloyd George

Question 14

26th Amendment

Answer 14

response to protests of Vietnam War

Question 15

“Great White Hope”

Answer 15

reference to white boxer good enough to defeat Jack Johnson, world heavyweight champion in 1908

Question 16

Horace Mann

Answer 16

raised teacher salaries, increased funding for schools, started teacher training programs, updated curriculum

Question 17

Causes of the War of 1812

Answer 17

acquire Canada and Florida, policies of Madison, impressment of US soldiers into British Navy, British alliance/support of Native American revolting tribes

Question 18

Market Revolution, early 1800s

Answer 18

primarily caused by building of national roads and canals

Question 19

Voting Rights Act of 1975

Answer 19

voting materials must be made available in a variety of languages

Question 20

War Powers Act

Answer 20

passed primarily because of presidential intervention of Congressional policies during the Vietnam War, mostly Johnson and Nixon

Question 21

Atlantic Charter, signed 1941

Answer 21

aggressor nations disarmed, nations can choose their own government, equal and free access to trade, U.S. and Britain won’t expand territory

Question 22

Oberlin College

Answer 22

Ohio: the 1st U.S. school where women and African Americans can earn a four-year college degree

Question 23

Great Migration

Answer 23

took place in 1920s

Question 24

Federalist Papers

Answer 24

written by people such as James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay