SAT II US History : Facts and Details in U.S. Social History from 1790 to 1898
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Example Question #1 : Facts And Details In U.S. Social History From 1790 To 1898
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which did ALL of the following EXCEPT:
Free the slaves in the five Union states
Tie the slavery issue directly with the Civil War
Declare free only those slaves in Confederate states
Maintain the institution of slavery in the Union
Allow black soldiers to fight for the Union
Free the slaves in the five Union states
The Emancipation Proclaimation did not abolish slavery in the Union; there were 5 slave states (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and West Virginia) that fought for the preservation of the United States.
Example Question #7 : U.S. Social History
1. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst used this style of writing to increase newspaper readership which increased public sentiment to start a war with Spain.
Tabloid Journalism
Objective Journalism
Sensationalism
Investigative Journalism
Nationalism
Sensationalism
Sensationalism. This exaggeration tactic was used to make everyday news more interesting and therefore increase readership for their respective newspapers.
Example Question #8 : U.S. Social History
1. The belief that it was divinely intended that Americans should control the whole of the continental U.S. is known as?
The Second Great Awakening
Nationalism
Sectionalism
Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny. It had become a popular belief in the mid 1800’s that it was the nation’s destiny to expand West in the name of God, progress, and civilization.
Example Question #2 : Facts And Details In U.S. Social History From 1790 To 1898
Which technological military innovation did not occur during the American Civil War?
The American Civil War saw a large increase in technological innovations related to warfare. In particular, train travel, ironclad ships, and machine guns were all first used in warfare during the American Civil War. Nerve gas, however, was not even discovered until the 1930s.
Example Question #2 : Facts And Details In U.S. Social History From 1790 To 1898
The forced relocation of Native Americans from the southeastern United States as a result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 has been named the Trail of Tears. Which of the following indigenous nations was NOT forcibly removed from its ancestral homeland to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma?
The Chickasaw
The Choctaw
The Seminole
The Cherokee
The Inuit
The Inuit
The Inuit are an indigenous people located in the Arctic.
Example Question #2 : Facts And Details In U.S. Social History From 1790 To 1898
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light--
One if by land, and two if by sea--
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."
American Poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, wrote the poem from which this excerpt is taken in 1860. About which famous Revolutionary War patriot was Longfellow writing?
Patrick Henry
John Adams
Alexander Hamilton
Paul Revere
George Washington
Paul Revere
The first stanza of Longfellow's poem "Paul Revere's Ride" famously reads,
"Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year."
Example Question #5 : Facts And Details In U.S. Social History From 1790 To 1898
The discovery of gold in Coloma, California, on January 24th, 1848, resulted in roughly 300,000 people rushing to California via sea and over land. What was the name of this massive influx of people to the Golden State?
The Gold Migration
The Forty-Niners Rush
The California Gold Rush
The Coloma Calling
The Call of the Wild
The California Gold Rush
The 300,000 men and women lured to California by the prospect of gold resulted in the California Gold Rush.
Example Question #6 : Facts And Details In U.S. Social History From 1790 To 1898
This escaped slave became a Conductor on the Underground Railroad and helped hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
George Washington Carver
Uncle Tom
Harriet Tubman
Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman escaped and then committed her life to helping others escape the horrific institution. She even served as a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Example Question #3 : Facts And Details In U.S. Social History From 1790 To 1898
In 1859, this abolitionist captured the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia along with 21 followers in an unsuccessful attempt to start a slave revolt.
William Lloyd Garrison
Thomas Clarkson
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
John Brown
The abolitionist was John Brown captured Harper's Ferry and was tried and hanged for his unsuccessful raid.
Example Question #4 : Facts And Details In U.S. Social History From 1790 To 1898
From the early-to-mid-nineteenth century, this wagon route from the Missouri River to Oregon permitted hundreds of thousands of immigrants to settle the West. What was its name?
The Oregon Trail
The Northwest Passage
The Oregon Valley
The Western Route
The Appalachian Trail
The Oregon Trail
Before the Transcontinental Railroad, the Oregon Trail from the Missouri River to Oregon permitted hundreds of thousands of immigrants to settle the West.
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