<p>Hey, who’s taking the SAT II US History?</p>
<p>What book are you guys using?</p>
<p>I remember someone mentioning Kaplan. The only thing I know is that the PR one does not have favorable reviews on Amazon.</p>
<p>1.What was the difference between the Hepburn Act and the Mann Elkins Act?
2.What was the tariff of Abominations? What precipitated?</p>
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<li><p>Both were acts passed in the progressive era under T.R. and gave more power to the ICC. The Elkins ACt gave the ICC greater authority to stop railroads from grating rebates to favored customers, and the Hepburn Act gave the ICC to fix rates for the railroads. (gov regulation of business)</p></li>
<li><p>The Tariff of Abominations was the Tariff of 1828…it was met with hostility in the south. The South Carolina legislature declared it to be unconstitution, adopting the “nullification theory”. The famous Webster Hayne debate followed, where the issue of state’s rights and the power of the state to nullify federal actions was debated. Calhoun then held a convention in SC and proposed that the federal government does not have the right to collect tariffs within the state. In response, Jackson persuaded Congress to pass a Force Bill, which granted him the authority to use military force to put down the convention…he afterwards proclaimed that nullification was treason. This whole ordeal was known as the nullification crisis, and also illustrated the limited extent of Jackson’s support of states rigths and Democrat-Republican ideals. </p></li>
<li><p>What was the “peculiar institution” and why was it called that?</p></li>
<li><p>What effect did WW1 have on AFrican Americans? </p></li>
<li><p>What was characteristic of the New South?</p></li>
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<p>I think that Barons is a good Sat II study book because the questions in it are really hard so when you get to the real test, it’s not so bad</p>
<p>Question: what was the “Great Society,” and which president promoted it?</p>
<p>Lyndon B. Johnson: He wanted help the impoverished; it was a progressive bill, which encompassed Medicare and Medicaid.</p>
<p>Here’s another: (not too hard) What was America’s major reason for entering the Vietnam war?</p>
<p>Who started the Head Start program (because i really don’t know)?:)</p>
<h2>Well, the United States, following the guidelines of the UN, wanted to help the French protect spanish interests; however, we didn’t join the war effort right away. With the advent of communism in asia, and Marshall’s phrase of “containment” facing corrosion–the US stepped in. The war excalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. We became heavily involved under Johnson.</h2>
<h2>Head Start was instituted by Johnson.</h2>
<p>1.What was the War Powers Act?</p>
<p>Describe Welfare capitalism and talk about who started it.</p>
<p>The War Powers Act, passed in 1973, describes the situations in which the president can used the US armed forces with or without the Congressional declaration of war.</p>
<p>The War Powers Act was passed in response to Nixon’s agression during Vietnam.</p>
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<li>What was the “peculiar institution” and why was it called that?</li>
<li>What effect did WW1 have on AFrican Americans?</li>
<li>What was characteristic of the New South?</li>
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<p>Name 2 factors that resulted in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.</p>
<p>2) There was a lot of African American immigration to the North, and this resulted in mob violence but also a greater number of African Americans working industrial jobs. There was a large African American rights movement with Marcus Garvey, preaching a movement back to AFrica. African Americans were also given some chance to fight in the war through the AEF and were sent to France, where racism was not as prevelent as within the US army.</p>
<p>Previous question: “Describe Welfare capitalism and talk about who started it.”</p>
<p>Welfare Capitalism was created and used by Henry Ford. It discouraged labor organizations because Ford provided much of what the labor unions were trying to achieve. He instituted welfare capitalism in order to discourage labor unions but also to create a paternalistic figurehead within his business (the figurehead being himself), and he even went as a far as to visit employees’ houses.</p>
<p>Who were the Redeemers? What did they establish that was abolished by the 24th amendment?</p>
<p>Southern democrats who came to power after reconstruction; poll tax</p>
<p>Name two things that strict-constructionist Thomas Jefferson did that seemed contradictory to his constitutional beliefs.</p>
<h2>Jefferson: The Lousiana Purchase, and I believe the barbary pirates fiasco. Then again, to a certain extent, the Embargo Act also contradicted the “strict” idealism.</h2>
<p>1.What was the Whiskey Ring?</p>
<h2>revenue officals allowed distillers to distribute whiskey without paying tax on it </h2>
<p>what was the difference between munn v illinois and wabash v illinois?</p>