mabsjenbu123

Does anyone know where I can find a list of relatively important (important enough to show up on those few annoying questions on the test that ask about random people) people in US History?

mabsjenbu123

bumpp

I would really appreciate it if someone had a list of the really obscure ppl I need to know

thefrenchman

I compiled this by looking at threads from previous exams, to prepare for it myself when I took it last June. Might as well pass it on.

Helen Hunt Jackson – A Century of Dishonor - describes how Indians were mistreated
Walter Rauschenbusch - Social Gospel – the belief that that religious institutions should work to improve society and attend to people’s spiritual needs
Henry Demarest Lloyd - Wealth Against Commonwealth – muckracker of Rock oil
Ida Tarbell - History of the Standard Oil Company – muckracker of Rock oil
Lincoln Steffens - muckracker about corrupt government in cities
Theodore Dreiser - The Financier and The Titan - criticized industrialists
Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives - how terrible tenement life is
William Randolph Hearst - New York Journal – sensational yellow journalism
Joseph Pulitzer - New York World – sensational yellow journalism
Alfred Thayer Mahan - The Influence of Seapower upon History
Frederick Law Omsted – Central park creator
Anthony Comstock – Comstock Law, crusader against gambling, prostitution, and obscenity
Rachel Carson – Silent Spring – threat of pesticides
Realism
Henry James – The Bostonians – life of the upper class
Stephen Crane – The Red Badge of Courage – horrors of civil war
Edith Wharton – foibles of upper class NY
Willa Cather – life on the plains
Art – Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer
Charles Graham Sumner – social darwinism

I know I missed a question in June which had Langston Hughes as one of the answer choices, so you might also want to look into Harlem Renaissance figures.

Islander4

Jackson, Tarbell, Steffens, Dreiser, Riis, Hearst, Pulitzer, Mahan, Carson, and Crane are probably the only people you should know from that list.

mabsjenbu123

Thank you soo much!!!!

mabsjenbu123

btw: was Margaret Sanger one of the answers on the June test?

and did any of these ppl actually show up as answers?

aluminum_boat

I think the may history test has a list of consolidated answers. You might wanna check that.

If someone happens to have the collegeboard prep book could you look up the score necessary for an 800/770/750/730/700? Thanks. I know it varies by date I just need an estimate.